Box Kite Construction

Box Kites are suitable for moderate to strong breezes

• On February 15th 1893 Australian inventor, Lawrence Hargrave, flew his box kite design at a beach near Wollongong, south of Sydney in New South Wales.
• The Wright Brothers develop their control system with kites from 1899 before Orville's first flight on December 17th, 1903 in an aircraft very similar to a box kite.
• In 1900, Texan Samuel F.Cody developed a large winged box kite that was used for man-lifting experiments and adopted for aerial observation by the British War Office in1906.
• During World War 2, aircrews were issued with box kites to use to attract attention the event of being 'downed'.

Hargraves' Box Kite

Wright Brothers first flight

Cody Kite used in WW1

WW2 Gibson Girl Kite