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How do you fly a kite?

Updated: 8/22/2023
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How to Actually Fly a KiteFor many kites, the best way is to set up the kite down wind of where you want to fly and pay out around 150 feet of line while walking to your flying spot. Turn, face your kite, and have someone hold the kite above their head and walk backward until all the slack is taken out of the line. Then, let them throw the kite into the air.

Some kites can be launched without assistance, especially those with a delta wing shape. They'll stand up on their wing tips with a gentle pull on the lines; a sharp tug from there will be enough to launch it.

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A kite can fly because it is held by a string while the wind pushes it up. As the string prevents the kite from being blown away, the wind pressure builds up against the kite's sail and lifts it up in the air.

If the kite is well balanced, it will climb up until it reaches a stable position where all the forces involved are evened:
- the upward lift force from the wind pressure

- the downward forces of weight of the kite, of the weight of the line, of the wind pressure on the line, and of course the downward force of your pull on the line

It you let go the line, the kite runs away, as if it was in a riverflow, and soon reaches the same speed as the wind. Then there is no longer any relative wind pressure to hold it up, so it will start falling.

But if you stop the line and hold it, it will go up again!

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The way the string attaches to the kite causes it to stay at the proper angle; then the wind hits the front or top part first and moves to the bottom or tail, it forces the kite upward.

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