How to Make a Kite: The Tabloid Sled.

Knock up a decent kite in less time than it took to clear my workbench.

Step 1 Materials and Tools

@ A newspaper,
@ Sticky tape,
@ Light string,
@ Scissors
@ Long straight edge.

Comments

[JohnJY]

You look quite different then what I had expected. Nice kite anyway, but I'm interested in war kites, and overly fancy, big kites.

[Grey_Wolfe]

So, random question that I'm sure I've seen answered before.

What kind of science do you teach? lol

Another nice recycling job. Good kite. :)

[Kiteman]

At the moment, I teach all branches - I will probably end up specialising more in the next year or so, though.

[Lithium Rain]

The common what? :D

[omnibot]

In Britain people can't go where they like but there are "commons", publicly available places.

[Lithium Rain]

Can't go where they like? How so?

[omnibot]

Not sure, only been to britain a few times. It's quite some way from Sweden. I think it has to do with most of their land beeing privatly owned and landowners beeing very territorial about it. Something like that anyway. I was quite shocked when my mate told me we couldn't climb a fence because the farmer would shoot at us.

[Lithium Rain]

Ah, yes. It's the same in certain areas of the States.

[Kiteman]

In days of yore, almost the whole country was open access. The only bits you were banned from were forests - not necessarily heavily wooded, they were royal hunting grounds.

Later, there were the acts of enclosure. Rich folk put fences around huge lumps of land and said "Mine, get off, poor people!". The bits left over were common land - owned by nobody in particular, used by anybody.

The term is also used in some of the older universities - the commons is an indoor area where anybody (rather than just professors etc) is allowed to hang around and socialise.

[omnibot]

Eeewww! That's like some twisted form of apartheid. Mind you, we've probably got somethings similar in our history. Just goes to prove things were'nt always better before.

[Kiteman]

It's a large part of what makes us British - the origins of the class system.

[Lithium Rain]

So that's what the commons are!

[josh92176]

Ah, so thats what you look like:-)

[Kiteman]

Boo!

[T3h_Muffinator]

Whoa, never thought I'd see a kite made out of newspaper fly. That's really cool man, awesome job!

[dchall8]

When I was in college the aerospace engineering department sponsored a kite flying contest. The winning kite was made by a couple of Chinese students. Five minutes before the contest started they made their kite out of napkins and straws from the cafeteria.

[T3h_Muffinator]

Haha! Awesome! -Shows that ingenuity always prevails!

[Kiteman]

Thankyou, my small-cake-based friend, but most flat light materials will nake a kite, as long as you choose a design that allows for their strengths or weaknesses. I once saw a kite made of an old cotton shirt, and I've made kites from sweet-wrappers and brush-bristles. I feel a theme coming on.

[T3h_Muffinator]

I've made a kite from a shirt before, but Brush-Bristles?! GOGOGO!

[Lithium Rain]

Welllllllllllll, he finally posted it! XD

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