Kites and sailing - FYI
Samuel Franklin Cody who invented the Cody manlifting kite system was the first man to cross the English Channel towed by kites in 1903.
(In 1908 Samuel Franklin Cody was the first man in England to build and fly a powered aircraft, (a large box kite fitted with a small engine).
Samuel Franklin Cody was the first man in England to be killed in a powered aircraft accident - 1913.)
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Don't fly muddy kites?!?
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