Razor Sport Kite (In stock)
A great introductory kite, the Razor Sport Kite has the ability to keep you wanting more. Designed specifically for maximum stability and positive feedback the Razor is an exceptional model for this price range, a real winner. Superb performance due to its low aspect ratio / high camber sail design.
Kite trivia:
People were flying kites 1,000years before paper was invented.
Kites have been used for thousands of years to lift offerings and give thanks to the Gods for good harvests, fertility, weather and prosperity.
There are over 50 million kites sold in the USA every year.
Alexander Bell, the inventor of the telephone also developed the tetrahedral kite, which was very successfully used for man carrying.
In the Orient, kites are given to someone to bring them happiness, good luck, prosperity and cure illness.
The modern ram air parachute and para-gliders were developed from a parafoil kite invented by the American kite maker Domina Jalbert in 1963.
Baden-Powell (the brother of the founder of the scout movement) did lots of successful experiment with man lifting kites.
Samuel Franklin Cody who invented the Cody manlifting kite system was the first man to cross the English Channel towed by kites in 1903.
In 1908 Samuel Franklin Cody was the first man in England to build and fly a powered aircraft, (a large box kite fitted with a small engine).
Samuel Franklin Cody was the first man in England to be killed in a powered aircraft accident - 1913.
In 1901 Marconi used a Hexagon kite to transmit the first radio signals across the Atlantic, the kite line was used as the aeriel.
Benjamin Franklin used a kite to prove that lightning was electricity.
Lawrence Hargrave was an English man who emmigrated to Australia where he invented the box kite in 1893.
In 1847, a young boy won a competition to fly and land a kite on the other side of the Niagara River. They then used the kite line to pull larger cables over the river, enabling them to start work on building the first railway bridge between Canada and the USA.
Some Japanese kites weigh over 2 tons.
One of the longest Chinese Dragons I have seen flying was over 600 metres long.
Kites have been used in many sea rescues.
In the Second World War the RAF issued pilots with a 'rescue kit' comprising a dingy and a folding box kite called a Gibson Girl which enabled them to send an SOS message from a portable transmitter with the kite line acting as the aerial.
Kite trivia:
People were flying kites 1,000years before paper was invented.
Kites have been used for thousands of years to lift offerings and give thanks to the Gods for good harvests, fertility, weather and prosperity.
There are over 50 million kites sold in the USA every year.
Alexander Bell, the inventor of the telephone also developed the tetrahedral kite, which was very successfully used for man carrying.
In the Orient, kites are given to someone to bring them happiness, good luck, prosperity and cure illness.
The modern ram air parachute and para-gliders were developed from a parafoil kite invented by the American kite maker Domina Jalbert in 1963.
Baden-Powell (the brother of the founder of the scout movement) did lots of successful experiment with man lifting kites.
Samuel Franklin Cody who invented the Cody manlifting kite system was the first man to cross the English Channel towed by kites in 1903.
In 1908 Samuel Franklin Cody was the first man in England to build and fly a powered aircraft, (a large box kite fitted with a small engine).
Samuel Franklin Cody was the first man in England to be killed in a powered aircraft accident - 1913.
In 1901 Marconi used a Hexagon kite to transmit the first radio signals across the Atlantic, the kite line was used as the aeriel.
Benjamin Franklin used a kite to prove that lightning was electricity.
Lawrence Hargrave was an English man who emmigrated to Australia where he invented the box kite in 1893.
In 1847, a young boy won a competition to fly and land a kite on the other side of the Niagara River. They then used the kite line to pull larger cables over the river, enabling them to start work on building the first railway bridge between Canada and the USA.
Some Japanese kites weigh over 2 tons.
One of the longest Chinese Dragons I have seen flying was over 600 metres long.
Kites have been used in many sea rescues.
In the Second World War the RAF issued pilots with a 'rescue kit' comprising a dingy and a folding box kite called a Gibson Girl which enabled them to send an SOS message from a portable transmitter with the kite line acting as the aerial.
