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An experimenter with man-lifting with kites in the 1890s he proposed a kite man-lifting system for observation to the British military. Baden Powell also invented the hexagonal Levitor, a tailless kite flown with two lines, in train, for man-lifting.

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External Websites

Webiste UH Education
Blog Post of Marian Robertson
Wikipedia: Man-lifting Kites
Article: PineTreeweb.com