Tom attached the string to the kite.

Fly a kite

Fly a kite (croaks) That's gratitude for you.

About the kite.

To the string of your kite

But this is Kiteflyer's Hill.

It becomes kite shaped.

Let's go fly a kite

Now! Let's go fly a kite

To the string of your kite

Oh, let's go fly a kite

Eddi Reader sings Kiteflyer's Hill

When you send it flying up there

This is a kite designed by a guy called Dave Kulp.

He flew a kite with his son.

This guy is not skydiving. He's being flown like a kite, or moved around like a kite.

And why do you want a 3,000 square foot kite?

That's quite obvious. You might just as well be flying a kite.

Let's go to the field and fly kites, what do you say?

That's what I said, sir. Go fly a kite!

Similarly, kites get tangled in trees, and if you climb the tree to free it, you might look over your neighbor's wall and see a woman without her veil, which would put you in sin. Why risk burning in hell for a kite?

And the kite was too strong for us.

Kites are skittish things.

And we're also doing a movie called The Kite Runner, based on the book The Kite Runner, also about Afghanistan.

Well, along comes Benjamin Franklin, and he comes close to convulsing himself with a bolt of electricity off the end of his kite.

Kites I'm going to give you a brief history, and tell you about the magnificent future of every child's favorite plaything.

But kites aren't just toys like this.

So this is the dawn of the new age of kites.

Actually, it wasn't a very good kite. We made it ourselves.

The regulation put forward that it is prohibited to fly kites, balloons, Kongming lanterns, aircrafts and other floating objects in the air and small aircrafts within the scope of 500 meters from high speed railway power line conductors on both sides.

Well, I've seen 'em here and about. Chasin' a kite last time, weren't it?

Or I might just fly a kite! Only Poppins would know! Poppins?

Saul Griffith's kites tap wind energy

For example, last winter I began with kite surfing so new things.

With your feet on the ground You're a bird in flight

A proper kite needs a proper tail, don't you think?

But unfortunately, it relegated kites once again to be considered children's toys.

In a manner of speaking, sir, it was the kite that ran away, not the children.

So they knew at that stage they could carry large weights.

Koto

So this is actually a 3,000 square foot kite, which also happens to be a minimal energy surface.

So, kites are more than a thousand years old, and the Chinese used them for military applications, and even for lifting men.

So this is the equivalent for a kite flier of peeing in the snow that's tracing your name in the sky.

Singer songwriter Eddi Reader performs Kiteflyer's Hill, a tender look back at a lost love. With Thomas Dolby on piano.

Then these two fellows came along, and they were flying kites to develop the control systems that would ultimately enable powered human flight.