At this Web
site information is presented concerning the construction, design, and
flight characteristics of several different kites.
This site was
prepared at NASA Glenn by the Learning
Technologies Project (LTP) (http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12)
to provide background information on kites as
teaching aids for math and science teachers. Some
of the slides were prepared to support KiteModeler, an interactive
educational computer program that allows students to design and
test fly kites on a personal computer. Other slides were prepared
to support LTP videoconferencing workshops
(http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/CoE/Coemain.html) for teachers
is currently available as a JAVA applet
which runs in your browser. This program can also be
downloaded to your machine.
This site has been intentionally organized to mirror the unstructured nature of the world
wide web. There are many pages here connected
to one another through hyperlinks and you can then navigate through
the links based on your own interest and inquiry.
There is also an index of topics that you
can access from any page, so you are never more than two clicks
away from any other Web page at this site.
However, if you
prefer a more structured approach, you can also take one of our
Guided Tours through the site. Each tour
provides a sequence of pages dealing with some aspect of aerodynamics.
The site has been developed to support Section
508 of the Rehabilitation Act. Many of the pages contain mathematical
equations which have been produced graphically and which are too
long or complex to provide in an "ALT" tag. For these pages, we
have retained the non-compliant graphic at the top of the page
and have provided a compliant text version of the equations in the
body of the page. In many cases, because of the use of Greek fonts in the
graphics, the purely English text version of the equations is slightly
different than the graphic version. The differences are noted in the text.
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