Talk:Indoor kite

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Restructuring of introduction

The previous introduction was unencyclopedic in style. It should be remembered that encyclopedia articles are meant to be dispassionate. The purpose is to describe a subject, and not to advocate it.

I have restructured the introduction, whilst retaining the majority of the content. I have omitted some content for the following reasons:

Indoor wind-tunnel testing of kites have occurred for decades.

This is off-topic. There is a big difference between a kite which is designed to be flown indoors, and a conventional kite which has been brought inside for testing,

The increasingly popular sport of indoor kiting is getting strong attention in the kiting world.

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Free-flight kites are also set aflight indoors.

This is repeated in the next section.

...running a kite around a gymnasium gives motivation to keep running.

This is subjective, rather than a hard fact.

Removal of "notable examples" section

I have removed the notable examples section. This is for two reasons:

The Rogallo wing references are off-topic. The tests were performed with an improvised wind-tunnel. As above, there is a big difference between a kite which is designed to be flown indoors, and a conventional kite which has been brought inside for testing.
Indoor hang-gliding is off-topic. There is a big difference between a free-flying aircraft and a kite (even if the airfoils are similar).

Hyperdeath (talk) 18:39, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have added "Rogallo wing" to the "See also" section. Hyperdeath (talk) 18:42, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]