User:Joefaust/Gilbert Totten Woglom

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Gilbert Totten Woglom authored a classic book on parakites which he defined as "beyond" kites. Parakites, a treatise on the making and flying of tailless kites for scientific purposes and for recreation was published in 1896 and is available online.[1]


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  1. ^ Parakites, a treatise on the making and flying of tailless kites for scientific purposes and for recreation. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1896, in English. His book described two types of gliding kites; one with fully relaxed tether and another made of two free-flying wings tethered together.

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