Kite Project:
A History of Kites 2
Delta Kites
The delta kite was invented by an architect in Texas named Wilbur E. "Bill" Green. In the mid 1940s, inspired by a picture of a Chinese bird kite with a keel fin in "Life" magazine, he and a friend, engineer Raymond "Chris" Christiansen started by buying a bamboo fishing pole, which they split up and used to make their first copy. This turned out to be such a good flyer they were urged to make more to sell. With the help of Viola "Vi" Christiansen they were soon in the kite business, importing their own bamboo from Formosa. They had special saws made for cutting it and built the machinery to work it. Then, fortuitously for us (in hindsight), the US government stopped imports of bamboo from Formosa, because of certain unwelcome beetles it had in it!
http://www.deltas.freeserve.co.uk/history.html
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