It's a dandy for flying," panted Tom, who was holding his kite with all the strength he possessed.
Mine Gretchen kite vos busted up -- und I spent me feefteen cents on him alreety!
It went up slowly but surely and proved to be as good a kite as the majority.
Dick, and, leaving his kite in Hans Mueller's care, he ran after his brother.
His own kite and Fred's were side by side and for a long time it looked as if neither would mount above the other.
So the talk ran on, while each contestant did the best to make his kite mount higher.
I would just as lief fly an old-fashioned kite as anything.
I thought I couldn't be mistook in that figger-head, and I knowed if you was the same old Jalap I took ye to be that Kite Roberson wouldn't be fur off.
Not much I hain't forgot him, and I'm nigh about as glad to see him as if he were old Kite hisself!
You see the sails of a close-hauled ship make about the same angle to it as a kite does.
Here we have the electric kite and manner of using it fully described without, however, any direct statement that the author himself actually experimented with it, although he does say that the experiment was successfully carried out.
The experiment was made by Franklin himself by means of his kite two years later, in the summer of 1752, and also by the lightning-rod which he erected over his own house in the autumn of the same year.
Here is thekite incident as related in the Continuation of the Life of Dr.
De Romas always maintained that he did not borrow the idea of the kite from any one, but that it occurred to him while pursuing his experiments with pointed conductors.
Franklin, astonishing as it must have appeared, continued actually to bring lightning from the heavens by means of an electricalkite which he raised when a storm of thunder was perceived to be coming on.
Not more than half an hour elapsed before the idea of the kite suddenly occurred to me, and I longed for an opportunity to try it; but unfortunately I had not sufficient leisure at the time.
We have now to see whether Franklin was anticipated in the idea of the kite or in its use for electrical purposes.
Stuber's biographical sketch, he had ample time to contradict the kite story if instead of being a fact it were a mere romance.
William Temple Franklin, who prepared for publication his grandfather's works, gives the kite story almost verbatim from Stuber.
When a bird rises from the ground it leaps up with head stuck out and expanded tail, so that the body is in the position of a boy’s kite when thrown up.
These portions are reversed when the wing is drawn back and towards the body, before beginning another stroke; but it will be observed that during retraction the wing is still sloped, so that the resemblance to a kite is maintained.
This view shows a kite about to be sent up from an observatory.
Scientific kiteflying has attracted the attention of the world.
When they had admitted him into the cote, they found that he made more havoc and slew a larger number of them in one day than the Kite could pounce upon in a whole year.
The Sick Kite A KITE, sick unto death, said to his mother: "O Mother!
The Eagle and the Kite AN EAGLE, overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon the branches of a tree in company with a Kite.
The Kite replied, "That I might attain your royal hand, there is nothing that I would not have promised, however much I knew that I must fail in the performance.
A Kite saw him and exclaimed: "You richly deserve your fate; for a bird of the air has no business to seek its food from the sea.
What impudent knave," she said, "ventures to let fall his kite in my garden?
While she was strolling about in her garden, thekite suddenly swooped down before her.
The appearance of the kite in Greece betokened the return of springtime; it was therefore worshipped as a symbol of that season.
When the kite reappears, he tells of the return of spring and of the period when the fleece of the sheep must be clipped.
Don't you see that a single kitecould easily carry off the lot at once?
And one windy day She blew away Like a great big kite That had gone astray.
She also had a long mahogany tiller bound with brass, and with a handsomely carved head of a kite which I much admired.
It is very evident that a kite made of boiler iron could have been successfully flown under these conditions providing that it could have been brought into the right position.
The kite would therefore mount until at b, where it presented the same angle to the wind as with the horizontal wind at a, and if it should be made to fly at a higher angle, it might pass over to the position shown at c.
It is very difficult indeed to make a kite mount providing that it is in a descending current of air, and one is just as likely to find a descending current as any other.
When in Boston about fifteen years ago, I went to Blue Hill to witness the remarkable kite flying which was taking place at that time.
Then, again, this same kite will sometimes steadily mount in the air until it reaches a height difficult to account for.
If the kite is a good one, it may pass over to the point c.
When a kite is flown in an upward current, it behaves in many respects like a soaring bird.
If a kite is flown only a few feet above the ground, it will be found that the current of air is very unsteady.
The next machine which I considered was on thekite or aeroplane system.
I was told that on certain occasions the kites mounted extremely high, much higher than they were able to account for; but on this particular occasion, although they let out a great amount of wire, the kite did not mount very high.
I have shown, at a, the action of a kite in a horizontal wind, lines e, e, showing the direction of the wind.
All the way there The wind tugged at the kite to take it Untethered, toss and break it; But Frank held fast, and I Walked with him admiringly; In his light brave and fine How bright was mine!
VI THE KITE It was a day All blue and lifting white, When I went into the fields with Frank To fly his kite.
We tailed the kite While the wind flapped its purple face And yellow head.
What a noble kite it is," said my cousin, "I wish I could go up upon one!
I exclaimed, running eagerly forward and drawing to light a beautiful large kite with a wondrous flying eagle depicted on it, and a tail of marvellous length, together with an apparently inexhaustible length of string.
By this time the stately kitewas lying on the grass.
The load at my heart came back again in a moment as I answered hurriedly, that I did not mind Aleck's being detained, for the pleasure of flying the kite was as good as anything.
So Aleck started off by the Zig-zag, and George and I would have set to flying the kite immediately, had not he discovered that one of the sails of our own boat had been taken up to the lodge, and that he must go and look for it first.
He took a small piece of paper, put a hole in it, and then slipped through this hole the stick to which his kite cord was tied.
Though he was younger than Russ he knew enough for this--when a kite starts to come down, to run with it, or to wind the cord in quickly.
His kite had fallen to the street, but it was not torn and was all right for putting up again.
Then Russ stopped winding the string, and the woman, putting up her hands, took hold of the kite tail, so it did not quite pull off her hat.
Then the piece of paper went sailing up the kite string, twirling around and around until it was half way to the kite itself.
I could walk along by my kite string and keep on going and going and going, and then I'd come to the place where the kite was and there would be the basket with the doll in it.
Russ pulled and pulled on his string, and finally he had his kite where he could see it.
The tail of the kite had become tangled in the trimming on the woman's hat, and Russ was pulling it off her head.
Father meant to give the kite to Bobby as soon as he reached home, but when he drove into the yard, there was a man waiting to see him on business; so he forgot all about it.
And it wasn't long before Bobby's kitehad climbed high into the sky again.
It's nearly four and my beautiful kite is a dancing bird in the sky before the good little kiddies of my Chestnut Ave start to trickle home from their days of denial, playing at normalcy in the face of Judgment.
The flying of a kite on a windy Toronto Hallowe'en day and the suspension of worry for a shiny moment.
Fore and aft, however, the kite and aeroplane act the same.
This is a true deltoid formation, as the angle of incidence of the planes is so disposed that when the planes are horizontal from end to end, the inclination is such as to make it similar to the deltoid kite referred to.
This kind of kite furnished the suggestion for the Voison biplane, which was one of the earlier productions in flying machines.
When a side gust of wind strikes the kite it is moved laterally, in sympathy with the kite, hence the problem of lateral displacement is not the same as with the aeroplane.
But there is this pronounced difference: The cord which supports the kite holds it so that the power is in one direction only.
A condition is thus set up which destroys the usefulness of the box kite formation.
While the Malay kite has only two points of cord attachment, both along the vertical rib, the common kite, as shown in Fig.
A type of kite unlike the others illustrated is a rotating structure, which gives great stability, due to the gyroscopic action on the supporting surfaces.
This fact, in essence, is, that the angle of the kite is the great factor in flight next to the power necessary to hold it.
Seaplanes, small dirigibles on the order of the English "blimp" type, and kite balloons have already shown themselves to be more effective in detecting submarines than are submarine chasers or armed liners.
Captive or kite balloons are especially effective as coast guards.
A Kite Balloon Rising from the Hold of a Ship 48 The Giant and the Pigmies 60 Painting by John E.
It may be properly noted at this point that the captive balloons or kite balloons have proved of the greatest value for observations in this war.
Every German kite balloon, every airplane would immediately be attacked by a number of allied machines.
Zeppelins as well as the stationary kite balloons and the swiftly flying airplanes often tempted the fighting aviators to attack.
Kite Balloon Ship Manica, which a few months before was a small tramp steamer.
This kite balloon of ours is the first ever used by the British, and this magnificent achievement which I have just seen recorded is the biggest triumph it has accomplished.
I had been, as a second-class air mechanic, a balloon hand on the very first kite balloon used by the British, and had accompanied it to the Dardanelles on a tramp steamer early in 1915.
Look at that American boy, with his kite on his shoulder, walking in a field near Philadelphia.
This clever little fellow observed that his kite sometimes gave him a very strong pull, and it occurred to him that if made large enough it might be able to pull something else.
Sometimes a kite of this kind is sent up at night, bearing a small lighted lantern of talc; and the sleepers awakened, called to their balconies by the unearthly music, gaze after the familiar apparition not without a poetical thrill.
If a twelve-foot kite has the force of a man, would it take many more feet to lift a man into the air?
This is caused by the action of the wind upon some finely-split bamboo twigs arched over the kite without touching the paper, and which thus become a true Æolian harp.
The kite was flown over the Pillar, and with such nicety, that when it fell on the other side the string lodged upon the beautiful Corinthian capital.
Many a poor little fellow bets sweetmeats upon his kite to the extent of his only anna in the world; and many a rich baboo has more rupees at stake than he can conveniently spare.
The kite is but a rough one, for Ben has made it himself, out of a silk-handkerchief stretched over two cross-sticks.
He is a little spare creature who flies his kite over steeples when there is anything to do to them, and lodging a cord on the apex, contrives by its means to reach the top without the trouble of scaffolding.
Then with Bucks himself in the private car--what wonder they let her out and swung De Molay through the gorge as maybe you've seen a particularly buoyant kite snake its tail out of the grass and drag it careening skyward.
