Talk:Man-lifting kite

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[edit] Inaccuracies in article

I have just removed this paragraph from the text: In the United States, advances continued to be made in man-lifting kites. Lieutenant Wise lifted a rig of a combined weight of 229 pounds (104 kg), including the passenger, over 40 feet (12.2 m)using a Hargrave type rig of box kites. W. A. Eddy reached a record height of 5,595 feet (1,705 m) using Malay kites, remaining aloft for over 15 hours. Early aircraft designs incorporated design features gained from kites, and in October 1901, Almenia Rice, a circus performer, used a kite to fly for several minutes after launching from the roof of a Boston building.

However, if you go to the reference provided, you will see that the reference actually states that only the TOP kite (at the end of a 2 mile-long cord) reached the 5,595 foot height and remained aloft for 15 hours. I also corrected another error in the preceding paragraph. I recommend this article be thoroughly fact checked, as it seems it was given some fictional, exaggerated "facts" by someone. Radishes (talk) 02:48, 4 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Person-lifting kite?

Nice article. I wonder if this article should be called "person-lifting kite" as gender-neutral language is better unless there is an English language term that is so well known that it won't go away (i.e. maneating shark, manpower, etc.) If that seems like asking for too much, can it be shown that "man-lifting kite" is a direct translation of an established non-English language term rather than an ad hoc label? Share your thoughts. House of Scandal 22:14, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

It is referred to in all the sources as a "man-lifting kite" (you can find mentions of person- and human- as you can with human-eating shark but they are in the minority). I'm all for gender neutral language, and considered it when creating the article, but I don't think it is appropriate here. Yomanganitalk 23:59, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

I agree that "man-lifting kite" remain. Women have been noted in history as being lifted in man-lifting kites. Tradition has no problem with seeing such kites as lifting humans as from mankind. Joefaust (talk) 05:28, 13 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Captain B.F.S Baden-Powell

Contributed to the Encyclopedia Britannica 11th edition (no mention of his now more famour brother). Jackiespeel 19:08, 19 March 2007 (UTC)