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Kite Building & Experiment Kit Soar to new heights with a kite you
Learn about lift, drag,
How it works
Unsure what to build? The experiment manual will tell you how the kite sails fit together and will give you some ideas for simple kites you can build. After you have built those, you can brainstorm up your own kite designs, build them and test them! Share your kite designs! Send us photos of the kites you have built and we will post them in our new Kite Gallery. Email images of your designs in jpeg format to this email address and tell us what did or did not work about the design and what you learned from testing it. Also, explain how the kite is assembled if it is not obvious from the photos. Experiment Manual A 32-page full-color
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design
and build yourself! Using a simple and unique connector system, your
colorful kite sails can be configured in hundreds of ways to create a
wide variety of kites.
Astonish
your friends, fellow kite flyers and the spectators on the kite field
with your wild and original constructions. Plan, build and test kites
again and again to determine which design is best. Experiment with how
different bridle configurations affect the stability and maneuverability
of your kite. 
Bernoulli’s principle, and the physics and history of flying kites.
Build a kite ferry and a kite glider. Calculate how high your kite is
flying, and determine the air temperature way up there.
A
patented connector system is used to attach kite sails together. The
design is elegant in its simplicity and flexibility. The same hub pieces
are used to attach cross spars to the sails and to attach the sails
together. Elastic straps fit tightly around the hub connectors at the
ends of the sails in order to keep the kite together, even in strong
breezes.
Experiment
Manual guides aspiring kite engineers through kite assembly methods and
nine experiments.