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Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 4, Issue 107, 12 November 1915, Page 2 (Supplement)

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Because of the utility and pe; of the aeroplane and observati loon, not a 1/resit deal of use h made in this war of man-<j kites, the value of which the I onel Cody was the first to denji in England. The French arm ever, is well equipped with thee the use of kites tor military w been highly developed in the States.

In some of the territory wh French are fighting over it has more expedient to carry and l war-kites rather than aeropli balloons. The kites may be tnki and folded into a small comp: because of the lightness of tn struction a small crew is able ' the entire equipment. Kites in the French army? to support a cable carrietr*Si which a basket to hold the oM£i his instruments is lifted. Th« used is a small model of that the racing-balloons in transcon flights, and is equipped with tli sary outfit of range-tinding gins The weight of the cable and den is not entrusted to one kit Tho kites are flown in "tear tandem series. Thus a kite-cai carry as many as eight or ten 1 tached at proper intervals all line. This method of flying t answers two purposes. It ena lifting of the kites and the lin most nearly perpendicular an Bible, and it divides the load the failure or escape of one or t is not fatal to the. observer />u imposeThe French method of using 1 ling basket on the kite-cable tho observer to ascend and without disturbing the kite was necessary with the first military kites.