Kites have a storied history in meteorological research -- think of Benjamin Franklin and his study of electricity -- including being used to carry aloft sensors that measure wind speed. Previously, ...

I met Don Montague on a seductively fast catamaran in St. Martin earlier this Spring. But it wasn’t until the next day when he returned to the boat with a team of very smart, and very talented guys, ...

Researchers have developed a way to use a kite itself to measure wind speed. The instrument consists of a 2-meter-long and 1-meter-wide Rokkaku-type kite. Kites have a storied history in ...

College Park, MD (July 27, 2010) -- Kites have a storied history in meteorological research -- think of Benjamin Franklin and his study of electricity -- including being used to carry aloft sensors ...