2022 Keros Beach on Limnos is one of the best places to kite or windsurf in Europe. David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. Verb Royal Air Force pilots flying over the region in the 1920s gave the structures their name due to their kite-like shape. Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2023 The grand launch, with more than 600 kites, starts at noon both days. Sunday, June 4, at Frontier Sports Complex, 3380 Cedar Glade Drive. 2021 Kite Fly: The Naperville Park District’s annual Kite Fly, with professional kite flying demonstrations, a family flying area, games, live musical entertainment and food trucks, will be held from noon to 4 p.m. 2021 Spinning metal cylinders, towing kites, and other propulsion methods are already helping to curb diesel fuel consumption by harnessing the wind. 2022 Advanced kite enthusiasts often prefer extra creative and complicated challenges, such as the 34-by-36-inch Ghost Ship Kite by Haptic Lab, which is hand-crafted in four-tier sails by artisans in Bali. Kurt Kleiner, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Apr. 2023 The kite is attached by an 800-meter tether to a ground station contained in a shipping container. Erika Page, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Feb. 2023 French company Airseas offers a massive kite that attaches to ships and flies above the ocean to lower fuel consumption by an average of 20%. Erica Lamberg, Fox News, 10 June 2023 Brothers Mohammad Saud and Nadeem Shehzad have devoted their lives to saving (or at least rehabilitating) the black kite, a bird of prey both ubiquitous and rapidly dying out. Noun On this day in history, June 10, 1752, Benjamin Franklin is reported to have flown a kite during a thunderstorm, with a goal of collecting ambient electrical charge in a Leyden jar - a container that could store an electrical charge for later use.
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