TRIVIA BITS …
KITES
The first flying machine was a kite, flown about 3000 years before people got into the air.
A basic kite consists of a frame covered with material, launched and held in the air by the upward push of wind currents but controlled from the ground.
The Chinese were flying kites long before the first recorded reference to a wooden bird kite in 500 BC. Kites through time have had religious significance, have been used to estimate distance, and helped Benjamin Franklin prove the electrical nature of lightning.
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