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 138 DICTIONARY OF AVIATION

may be flown or floated in the air by means of a long string or wire attacht to it.

aerocurve kite, a cellular kite, invented by C. H. Lamson, the main supporting-surfaces of tuhich are aerocurvs or curvd aerofoils.

auxiliary kite, a kite which is auxiliary or supplementary to the main or highest kite, being attacht to the line of the main kite in order to reliev the strain on the main kite or to support the line.

Bell kite, a compesit kite made up of tetjahedral cells, invented by A. G. Bell about 1903; a tetjahedral kite.

biplane kite, a kite having the form of a biplane; a kite with two parallel superposed sustaining-planes.

bipolar kite, a kite t^ied by Bazin in 1888, the frame of which consists of a bow and a central stick, both of tuhich are flexible.

bow kite, a kite whose frame consists of two sticks, one of which is a flexible red at the hed, bent to a bow, and the other a main central vertical spine (at right angles to the bow) to which the bow-strings are fastend.

box kite, a bex-like kite or a kite made up of bex-like parts; a cellular kite, such as that of Hargrave, Clayton, or Marvin, in tuhich the front and rear cells are rectangular parallelepipeds.

boys' kite, any one of the various ferms of kite commonly made or flown by beys; a flat or single-plane kite, such as the bow kite, the diamond kite, the hexagonal kite, or the star kite, whose frame consists of two or more crest sticks.

catamaran kite, see under catamaran.

cellular kite, a kite consisting of cellular compartments or parts, originally designed by Lawrence Hargrave of New South Wales, Australia, about 1892; a kite made up of open cells, tuhich may be of rectangular, tetjahedral, circu- lar, or other shape, and either simple or compesit; a multi- plane kite; a bex kite.

Chinese kite, a kite of a kind especially common in China Japan, and the Malay Peninsula, made to resemble a bird, dragon, man, or other object.

circular kite, a kite of circular shape; a round kite.

collapsible kite, a kite which is collapsible or can be folded up for transportation.

diamond kite, a flat diamond-shaped kite; a single-plane kite having the form of a rhemb; a lozenge-shaped boy's kite.

double kite, a kite consisting of two sustaining-units, as two Malay kites upon one backbone.

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