Date:	Mon, 30 Oct 1995 11:16:55 -1000
From:	andrewh@hal.harvard.edu (Andrew Hawken)
Message-Id: <473fc7$k3m@epsilon.qmw.ac.uk>
Organization: Queen Mary & Westfield College, London, UK
Subject: BBC Kite

I saw an interesting kite on the BBC last night.  It was on
BBC 1, in the shape of a '1' as an advertising thingy (aint that
illegal?)  The kite was composed of hundreds of cells.

Anyone seen it ?  It was only there for probably 2 seconds so I
did not get a good look!

Andy

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Date:	Wed, 1 Nov 1995 09:19:48 -1000
From:	MKF@canleo.demon.co.uk (Julie White)
Message-Id: <815224732.24513@canleo.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: BBC Kite

andrewh@hal (Andrew Hawken) wrote:

>I saw an interesting kite on the BBC last night.  It was on
>BBC 1, in the shape of a '1' as an advertising thingy (aint that
>illegal?)  The kite was composed of hundreds of cells.

>Anyone seen it ?  It was only there for probably 2 seconds so I
>did not get a good look!

It was first shown on our TV screens in the Midlands last Autumn and
prompted a lot of discussion as to wether it would actually fly.

The general concensus was (after a lot of back and forth on the video)
that it probably would not fly as the top left part of the '1' would
off-balance the kite.

We also felt that the kite was tethered in a studio with a fan blowing
at it for effect.  We were undecided as to how big it actually is,
though.

Nice to see that the beeb went to all that trouble of building it and
filming it though.




Julie White
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Date:	Fri, 3 Nov 1995 01:20:44 -1000
From:	steveh@pyramid.com (Steve Hammatt)
Message-Id: <47ctuc$ibv@sword.eng.pyramid.com>
Organization: Pyramid Technology
Subject: Re: BBC Kite

Andrew Hawken (andrewh@hal) wrote:
> I saw an interesting kite on the BBC last night.  It was on
> BBC 1, in the shape of a '1' as an advertising thingy (aint that
> illegal?)  The kite was composed of hundreds of cells.

> Anyone seen it ?  It was only there for probably 2 seconds so I
> did not get a good look!

Yes, I have seen this before. I can never tell if it is really a big
kite, or simply a small, clever model.  As you say, it appears to be
a multi-celled, multi-coloured "one".

Steve.
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