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Volume 10 - Issue 39 - July 1906

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  • Across-Channel Communication by Kite

  • S. H. R. Salmon
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 September 2016, pp. 44-45

  • 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.

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  • AER volume 10 issue 39 Cover and Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    14 September 2016, pp. f1-f2
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