What makes a kite fly?
A kite is a special sort of aircraft, attached to the ground by a string. When a kite is stopped from being blown backwards by the wind it will usually fly. The string we hold when flying a kite is what is used to stop the kite from flying away with the wind. Because this sort of aircraft has no engine it needs something else to make the kite move through the air. The power source for a kite is the wind. Without wind moving over the kite it won’t fly. Some kites need lots of wind. Others need very little wind for them to fly. Just like a normal plane, or even a bird, there are four forces that affect a kite when it is flying. They are gravity, lift, thrust, and drag. Gravity pulls everything towards the centre of the earth. Anything on the ground can’t get pulled down any further than that, but things in the air can get pulled down to ground level. The heavier a kite is the harder it will be to fly. Kites are generally made from lightweight materials so that they will fly easily. If gr
