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Kite photo of Bartlow Hills tumuli, Cambridgeshire, England. The most important aspect of any kite used to lift a camera is stability. Generally, single lined kites are used as they allow very long line lengths and need less intervention from the flyer than steerable designs. Almost any stable kite design can be used to lift lightweight camera ...
The Mississippi kite was first named and described by the Scottish ornithologist Alexander Wilson in 1811, in the third volume of his American Ornithology. [2] [3] Wilson gave the kite the Latin binomial name of Falco mississippiensis: [2] Falco means "falcon", while mississippiensis means from the Mississippi River in the United States. [4]
A kite is a tethered heavier-than-air or lighter-than-air craft with wing surfaces that react against the air to create lift and drag forces. [2] A kite consists of wings, tethers and anchors. Kites often have a bridle and tail to guide the face of the kite so the wind can lift it. [3]
The kite causes the sea and sky to go to war, and after the war, land is formed, allowing the kite to finally land and build a nest. In Bushongo mythology , Chedi Bumba (third son of the god M'Bombo: the original creator of everything) in his quest to improve upon his father's design; was only able to create the Kite.
If the kites making up the arch kite rotate using the Magnus effect the term also applied is rainbow kite or just bow kite or kite bow or "sky bow" or SkyBow; one form of the rotating arch or rainbow kite is the ribbon kite (in one or multiple segments). Swivels in the line are important.
Kites have also been found in Mongolia [27] and South Africa. [28] As of 2018, there were over 6,000 known kites in Asia and the Middle East, [1] and in some parts of Syria there are as many as 1 kite every 2 square kilometres (0.77 sq mi), [5] to the point that they are partially overlapping or form complicated structures. [29]