Norman Arminger and his Portland Protective Association is able to use his knowledge of medieval history to dominate the post-Change world, but it's pointed out there are some things they didn't have back then, like hang-gliders, so one is used to fly someone in behind the walls of a PPA castle at night so the gates can be opened. Shef makes a kite for himself as well, but doesn't fly it very well, to his eventual detriment. The kite crews wear a winged pendant for Volund, smith of the gods who made wings to fly away from his captors. In King and Emperor the Waymen experiment with manned kites, mostly crewed by young boys.He gets this idea from watching some kids fly a regular kite. invents a 'space kite' which uses cosmic rays as the 'wind' and a gravity accelerator as the virtual string to keep it tethered to a body (planet, asteroid, etc.). In Tom Swift and the Cosmic Astronauts Tom Swift Jr.Rowan of Rin: The Forerunners of the Travellers use large silken kites to fly ahead of the rest of the tribe and warn of potential dangers, the cover depicts them being shaped like gliders.Later the man's son must ride a kite into the clouds to save his widowed mother from being forced to marry the man who killed her husband. The man dies during the flight and his soul goes into the clouds.

Before setting out on a voyage a ship's crew 'tests the wind' by sending a kite with a man attached into the air.

The Kite Rider, a children's story set during China's Song dynasty and the reign of Kublai Khan.For a long time, tethered kites with soldiers riding them were used for patrol and defense, then another genius had a lucky/unlucky break when his tether broke and he invented a hang-glider, which became the word in advanced warfare, until Wizard Nuel came from a distant land. In David Brin's The Practice Effect, someone carrying a large umbrella was caught in a powerful storm, which gave him the brainstorm for a kite.However, the day Franklin 'discovers' electricity, he sends Amos up in the kite like usual - and Amos doesn't find out till too late that he's removed the zipline. As Ben begins to study electricity, he hints multiple times that Amos riding on the kite during a thunderstorm would greatly benefit his study. In Ben and Me, Ben rigs a platform on his kite for Amos and a zipline he can ride down, which Amos enjoys immensely.In Yaiba, Goemon Ishikawa makes his exit after his introduction by grabbing a wall panel which is promptly pulles off the wall by his minions and turned into an impromptu ninja kite.In one Lupin III episode, the evil Fuuma Ninja use large shinobi kites to reach the top of Tsukikage Castle, with Goemon using another ninja kite to reach and duel them.When Rouge the Bat tries to fly off with a Chaos Emerald, Lady Ninja extends the kite out of her back to give chase. The current page image is E-91 Lady Ninja, one of Dr.A few episodes later, it was revealed that he wasn't actually gliding, and that he was just riding a large black kite to give off the illusion of gliding, and that the 'Cursed Warrior' was actually the feudal lord in disguise. The first episode of the arc shows the titular Cursed Warrior gliding in the dark, terrorizing a village. The Cursed Warrior filler arc in Naruto.As they fight with each other Izuru Kira comes flying in on his own kite to break it up but crashes. As the contest gets competitive, Ikkaku Madarame and Captain Soi Fon fly using their squads' kites. In anime episode 355 Izuru Kira arranges a kite-flying contest between the Soul Reaper squads. In one episode of Miss Machiko, one of the main students and a teacher end up flying on a giant kite by accident and eventually fall into a sauna where the eponymous Ms.There was an episode of Digimon Adventure 02 where Shurimon ties himself to a kite and introduces himself to a villain who wishes to fight him whilst airborne and stuck to the kite.After he loses, an actor in a costume of the monster uses an actual giant kite to kidnap his opponent. The anime-exclusive ninja duelist Jean Claude Magnum uses a magic card called 'Great Kite of Ninja' to let one of his Ninjas fly. Cue Doraemon taking out a giant kite - which he calls the 'Dora Kite' - so everyone can take a ride on it. Doraemon: Nobita and the Windmasters has Doraemon and friends visiting the Wind Village, whose citizens, including the gang's new friend Temujin, can control the wind.

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