Thousands of children in the Gaza Strip have succeeded in breaking the world record for the number of kites flown in one place and are now set to enter the Guinness Book of Records.
Two Brazilian teenagers were arrested on the weekend for allegedly plotting to smuggle cellphones into a prison using a kite, reports said Sunday.
High-flying Kites could harness enough energy to power the world 100 times over, according to a survey of high-altitude winds.
I was a teen in the late sixties. So many song and movies of that era lauded 'freedom.' I remember thinking even then that I had never been free. I carry the chains within me always. Some are lovingly bound around my heart such as those linking me to my family.
Mumbai, Dec 10: Looks like Bollywood's light-eyed hunk, Hrithik Roshan has some Hollywood bigwig fan following. The actor was recently visited by the King of Pop, Michael Jackson himself. Now, that's some pleasant surprise for someone who's a big time Jacko fan.
Sumpango, Guatemala - In the highlands of Guatemala, even the smallest child seems to know how to string together a simple kite to ride the mountain breezes.
Flying kites higher than standard wind turbines Now Dutch researchers and inventor-astronaut Wubbo Ockels are demonstrating that loops of high-flying kites can get at the stiffer jet stream wind that is circulating higher than the highest wind turbines (which are erected at betw …
Over the weekend, David and his brother Geoffrey attended the local kite flying festival, East Meets West Kite and Cultural Festival 2007, and brought along Geoff's eagle kite, two uncles--Andrew and me--and Grandmother.
Can you remember the last time you flew a kite? Feeling the need for a little Mary Poppins' time with the family? Well, here's your chance -- April is National Kite Month.
It's National Kite Flying Day at the National Mall, Washington, DC, so I just had to inaugurate my new foldable bicycle with a day on the Mall.
At least 11 people died and more than 100 people were injured at an annual spring festival in eastern Pakistan celebrated with the flying of thousands of colorful kites, officials said Monday.
...yes Virgina your uncle was killed by a rivals kite..you just can`t make this stuff up..!
Note to self - if ever in Pakistan, do not go to kite festival.
Before you dismiss the idea outright, say Sequoia Automation, the small Italian company behind the project, you need to know a few things about the energy produced by the movement of air.
You've probably heard the recent news of kite-flying being banned in regions of Pakistan. People were flying their kites alongside the road, and somebody would zoom by on a motorcycle and the kite string would slice open their neck, ultimately causing their death.
This is really silly. How can people die from kite flying?