Kiting Records

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Claim	References	Pilots	Certified by	Pilots' position	Comment
AWES: Most electricity fed into a battery or grid in a 24 hr period by a single integrated energy kite system.					A farm of independent working kite units is not intended in this record.


Flight duration of a single kite system of fixed anchor set. Control is to be fully passive without electronics. Winch may be powered to bring system down. Natural winds only.		PIC may be absent.		On ground as observer only, but may leave the system entirely	Site choice seems to be most important here. Trade winds?

Flight duration by an autonomous kite system allowed to have robotics and energy production onboard wing set, but with fixed-soil or fixed buoy anchor set. Wing set may morph its own shape and set its own bridling adjustments to accommodate wind conditions.
Flight duration indoors of a kite system by a human floored pilot who does not leave a circle on the floor of 1 m diameter with a tether set of > 4 m and a stick-assist < 1 m.				Floor in a confined circle
Wing-set mass largest
Wing-set mass, smallest
Longest rotating ribbon kite
Largest area rotating ribbon kite
Largest Malay or Eddy stick kite
Longest duration of human flight in a free-flight kite system. The wing set may have one or more wings. For ultimate flights RATs may be involved or other energy production devices.				Set of pilots will be aloft.	The kite hang gliders (framed or unframed) seem to have a corner on this record, so far. It is hazardous to push the limits on this, as a tired pilots drastically increases risk of unfortunate flight termination. FAI does not maintain records for duration of kite hang gliders because of this safety concern. However, we anticipate robot assistance and also crews of more than one human in double-wing free-flight kite systems for very long endurance flights. It is anticipated that a jet stream and its adjacent wind layers will be utilized for ultimate duration and distance records. Consider FISH.
Largest kite of Jalbert parafoil type
Largest kite of a typed wing					This will be expanded to respect the wing type involved.
Largest Flexi-Kite Rogallo
Windsurfing records for speed, straight
Windsurfing triangle speed
Most wings in a kite system of one anchor point	Kite_Lines_V8N2p55				All wing elements are to be adding to the gross lift of the system.
Most wings in a kite system of two anchor points
Most wings in a looping ladder kite system with lifter system
Most fuel saved by using a kite system on a freighter ship at sea
Most mass fetched and lifted by a fixed-anchor kite system and then placed to a target point that is at least 100 m from the fetch point.

Processing these found clips about kiting records: We have not verified the claims made in these clips. We seek good references for each claim. There are many copied claims without references.

RECORDS Clipped from: http://www.kite-festival.org.uk/more-info/kite-records-and-trivia which see for some interesting notes.

The smallest kite in the world that actually flies is 5mm high. NO REFERENCE OR DEFINITION OR RULES STATED.
The largest number of kites flown on a single line is 11,284, this record is held by a Japanese kite maker. See reference. See rules. Notice how different rules may produced different respects.
The longest kite in the world is 1034 metres (3394 ft). NO REFERENCE OR DEFINITION OR RULES STATED.
The largest kite in the world is Peter Lynn’s Flag kite, measuring 42m by 25m (1050 sq m)! NO REFERENCE OR DEFINITION OR RULES STATED.
The fastest recorded speed of a kite is over 120 mph. (193 km/h). NO REFERENCE OR DEFINITION OR RULES STATED.
The record for the highest single kite flown is 13,600 feet above sea level, for a train of kites it's 9740 metres (31,955 ft). NO REFERENCE OR DEFINITION OR RULES STATED.
The world record for the longest 'kite fly' is 180 hours. NO REFERENCE OR DEFINITION OR RULES STATED.
The fastest crossing of the English Channel towed by kites was 2hrs 30min by a team from Flexifoil International in 1999. They would have done it in 2hrs if the French Coastguard had not stopped them 1/2 a mile from the French coast. NO REFERENCE OR DEFINITION OR RULES STATED.
Some Japanese kites weigh over 2 tons. NO REFERENCE OR DEFINITION OR RULES STATED.

Largest Kite – The largest kite ever flown, has a total lifting area of 950 m² (10,225.7 ft²). When laid flat, it has
a total area of 1019 m² (10,968.4 ft²). The kite measured 25.475 m (83 ft 7 in) long and 40 m (131ft 3
in) wide. The kite was made by Abdulrahman Al Farsi and Faris Al Farsi and flown at the Kuwait Hala
Festival in Flag Square, Kuwait City, Kuwait on 15 February 2005. (Guinness World Records)

Largest Delta – 1,406 sq ft – 131 sq meters. 37 1
/2 feet high with a wingspan of 75 ft. Flew in San Diego on 4
September 1982 for 25 minutes.

Longest Thai Cobra kite – 2,313 feet – 705 meters. On 15 November 1987 a crew of 16 fliers flew this 128 lb
kite in France. They estimated that the kite took 2,000 hours and 45,000 francs to build.

The highest altitude by a single kite – Richard P Synergy flew a kite to an altitude of approximately 4,422 m
(14,509 ft) on 12 August 2000 near Kincardine, Ontario, Canada. The massive kite, with an area of 25 m²
(270 ft²), was designed and built by Synergy himself. (Guinness World Records)
Previous record: 12,471 feet (3,801m). On 28 February 1898 in Milton, Massachusetts. A modified
Hargrave box with about 86 sq ft of sail. The line was piano wire with a breaking strength of 330 lbs.

Highest altitude by a kite train – 31,955 feet – 9,740 meters. Eight kites flew over Lindenburg on 1 August 1919.
Most consecutive days of individual kite flying – 366 days. Bill Mosely of Converse, Texas flew one or more
kites every day from 25 October 1983 to 24 October 1984, a leap year.

Duration – outdoors – 180 hours and 17 minutes. Under the direction of Harry Osborne, the Edmonds
Community College kite team at Long Beach, Washington, kept a J-25 parafoil aloft from 21 – 29
August 1982.

Distance – traction on land – 113 miles – 182 kilometres. In the 1820’s George Pocock speed at about 25
mph in his “Char-volant”, a four wheeled carriage towed by controllable kites. Precise details are
unknown, but estimates range up to 113 miles in 1827. He made one documented journey of 60 miles
as the crow flies from Southampton to London.

Most kites on one line – 2,233. The record was set in Japan flying 13 x 13 inch (34 x 34 cm) diamond kites
made of bamboo with plastic sail material.

Most dual-line kites stunted in train – 179. On 23 August 1986 at Long Beach, Washington flying a stack of
modified Hyperkites.

Most figure-of-eights – 2,911. On 25 September 1988 Stu Cohen performed 2,911 figure-of-eights with his kite
in one hour at Ocean City, Maryland.

Fastest kite – measured speed: 120 mph – 193 kph. On 22 September 1989 Pete DiGiacomo flew a modified
10ft Flexifoil at Maryland, USA. Readings were taken by a local police officer with a radar gun.

First aerial photograph by a kite-borne camera – 20 June 1888. Arthur Batut took the first aerial photograph
from a kite-lifted camera in Labruguiere, France. William A. Eddy of Bayonne, New Jersey, took the first kite aerial photographs in the US on 30 May 1895.

First US Kite Patent – 2 January 1866. Patent #51,860 was issued to William Perrins for a hexagon-shaped
flat kite with two inwardly bent masts. Since then over 575 kite patents have been issued by the US
Patent Office. There are also 101 patents cross-referenced to kite subclasses.

Most kite books written by one author – 20. Kazuo Niisak, of Japan, wrote about 20 kite books between 1969
and 1987.
Sources: Kiteworks, Explorations in Kite Building & Flying by Maxwell Eden
Guinness World Records
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