savannah's kite board
aka kite school project
my kites blue print
how to make the kite
surface area
math problems
both kite math problems
1. under the direction of harry osborne, the edmonds community collage kept a parafoil in the air from august 21 to august 29, 1982. their 180 hour, 17 minute flight created a world record for duration flying. if there were eight members of the team, and each took three hour shifts watching the kite, how many shifts would each team member be responcible for? so each member would do seven hours total.
2. On May 16, 1987, troy vickstrom decided to measure the speed of his maneuverable kite across the beach in lincoln city oregon.the kites speed of 108 miles per hour was measured with a police radar gun. afterwards the police isseud a citation for exceeding the maximum speed in an area with a posted speed of 20 mph. (the tictket was a joke.) how can you measure the speed of a moving kite. how many feet times per second