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Across-Channel Communication by Kite

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2016

S. H. R. Salmon
S. H. R. Salmon*
Affiliation:
M. Aër. Soc.
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On the 10th February, 1900, a kite flown by M. Delcourt, at Calais, France, broke away, and, dragging its line through the sea, landed at Burmarsh, England, a distance of 35 miles.

This suggested to me to test the possibility of delivering a message in France from England by kite.

On the 14th April, 1906, in an E N E wind, blowing about 30 miles an hour, I flew a diamond shaped box-kite (provided with keel for extra stability), and, attaching the line of 400 feet to a drag 30 feet long, and weighing 12 pounds, launched the apparatus from the beach at Brighton. A message, enclosed in a wooden bottle, was suspended from the body of the kite, asking for information from the finder, but no tidings have yet come to hand.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 10 , Issue 39 , July 1906 , pp. 44 - 45
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1906

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