inspires me to fly my own modest store-bought kites. I have a trusty parafoil, a box kite, some deltas, a VW Beetle with wheels that spin, and a bumblebee that never, ever flies. , kite flying ...

So when Hargrave was developing his box kit, his cellular kite, he sent all the information over to Octave Chanute and Octave Chanute started building his own box kites. And they were variations ...

Katikati kite flyer John Russell with his Gibson Girl box kite from World War II ... It was part of their survival kit, designed to help downed pilots send an SOS message to nearby potential ...