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Charvolant: 190 year old kite buggy

br44 - 8-12-2016 at 11:08 AM

Kite buggying is a lot older than I thought:
https://youtu.be/55Oxj09YfkE
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Po#@%$#!_(inventor)
(If the link does not work due to automatic correction... his last name is P.o.c.ock, without the dots)

slapbasswoody - 8-12-2016 at 04:05 PM

That's my old beach!!!!:thumbup::thumbup:

shehatesmyhobbies - 8-12-2016 at 07:32 PM

I've done research in the past on this, I've seen it dated even further back, to the Chinese. First fliers of kites as I recall, used them during battle, eventually led to something similar where they used a large "kite" to pull wagons and stuff like that. I hope I am recalling that correctly. I used to go to schools and give presentations and demonstrations a few years back.