On 2006-04-19, Skylune wrote:
I did some web searches, and discovered the record for the highest a kite
has flown: over 30,000 feet. (According to the link, that was actually a
series of 8 connected kites). Here is the what the article said:

Going off on a commplete tangent (I like doing that), our main method of
launching gliders here is really a big, manned kite (the glider being
the kite of course). The principle behind winch launching a glider isn't
that different from getting a kite airborne by reeling the line in (or
running backwards a little way) to give it some airspeed. Of course, we
don't have a guy reeling in the winch wire at the other end, but a 4.2
litre Jaguar engine! (And the video is at
http://www.alioth.net/Video/Winch-launch.mp4 if you wanna see how it
works)

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