Resources

    This site is an excellent site for mythology links to flight.

    Great place to find kite plans with step-by-step directions
    with photographs.

    Explore this site for a brief history of kites.

    Interested in fighting kites?  Here are the rules for competition.

    Can you tie the appropriate knot when building and flying your kite?  Check out
    the fisherman's bend and the bowline.

    Model of an illustrated e-book created by a young author, Katy Staplehurst.

    Peruse these single line and dual line kite plans.

    A biography of Lawrence Hargrave, inventor of the box kite.

    Learn to talk the talk (of kites that is).

    More kite plans!

    This site offers a timeline of kite history.

    Looking for an inexpensive kite?  Try this plan for a newspaper kite.

    Why do kites fly?  A simple explanation of kite aerodynamics.

    This site has vocabulary and directions for creating a diamond kite.

    What did Marco Polo have to do with kites?
 

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