When George Ken t, a fifteen-year-old boy, of Clifton, New -jersey, wound in a thousand feet of twir jb the other day, he pulled to earth a grei ?n kite which "is said to have broken the ■> forld's record ■ for an endurance flight.. 'It ; had remained aloft 22 hours and 21 minu'ltes. A few. days later two boys attempted Jto beat the record, but their efforts endc disastrously. Their kite had been flyi ag well when a. descending aeroplane ci it the'string and the kite blew away. '.'
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 45, 22 February 1930, Page 23
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