Do you know that man first flew being tied to a kite? In China, criminals sentenced to death were used as test pilots for man-bearing kites by the emperor Wen Hsuan Ti in 559 A.D.
In the 12th century, the samurai Minamoto no Tametamo who was banished to an island off Japan is believed to have used a kite as a means of escape for his son. He is said to have tied his son to a kite and flown him to the mainland.
Today we have kites of various sizes and designs ranging from the tetrahedral kite of 3-D structure to the smallest kite measuring only 5 mm long.
Test Your Science
1. What do you think was invented as a result of the development of the kite?
Learn the skills required to fly a kite in the Young Scientists Issue 110 Level 3.
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