Video: Serpentine flight. Washington DC Kite Festival
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
In early March, in the sky of the American capital, the city of Washington, appear unusual guests … No, these are not the Martians who nevertheless realized their age-old dream and are preparing to enslave the United States. it kites - dozens, hundreds of colorful "birds" that begin their snake flight at the annual Smithsonian Kite Festival.
Each of us is familiar with such an outlandish creature as a kite. This flying creature appeared two thousand years ago in China: a structure made of paper, soaring up under gusts of a headwind, was supposed to depict a corporate chinese dragon … Kites were used as a festive decoration, sails, and they also tried to throw scouts onto the walls of besieged cities with their help - and not unsuccessfully, as the epics about Alyosha Popovich prove to us, who defeated the Tatar Tagarin Zmeevich, who flew "on paper wings".
But this is all a matter of the past, and now kites are primarily a toy. A very poetic toy that sometimes becomes a work of art - like, for example, the wonderful snakes of Anna Rubin. And those snakes that gather in the park at the Smithsonian Festival and begin their serpentine flight into the spring sky from there - although not always created by artists, there are real masterpieces among them. Fancy shapes, non-toy sizes, vibrant colors - the main thing is that the snake is light.
The festival takes place in a park next to Washington Monument … Participants bring their flying friends and arrange competitions. What can kite launchers compete in? In assembly speed, lift height, flight duration. It is hard on calm days! But usually the participants are lucky, and the snakes soar in the sky for a long time, climbing to dizzying heights. Boys and girls, as well as their parents, admire the snake flights on background of the ideological and political center of the United States - Capitol … By the way, the festival itself is called the Smithsonian because it is held next to Institute named after the famous chemist and mineralogist Smithson.
Kids are also given free kites at the Smithsonian Festival. But this is more for those who have not yet acquired a flying toy. After all, if the child already has his own favorite kite, will he exchange it for a new one?
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