Time for some kite stuff...

This is my Spirit of Air Cody Box Kite. When I first became aware of Samuel Cody's person-lifting kites I immediately wanted to be able to fly some kind of replica. Incidentally, as manufactured this kite is annoyingly difficult to assemble. The struts have on their ends these nocks with narrow slits and the kite has skinny loops of fabric to be inserted in those nocks. It's a pain to get the fabric into those, and even harder to keep it in long enough to have created enough tension that it won't fall out. So, even before the first time I flew it, I doubled those loops and sewed them into shorter, thicker loops, then added 14mm split rings to them. Hard to exaggerate how much better that works. Not long after this I wound up doing the same thing with another kite with a similar issue. If you're mechanically inclined and pretty handy, don't be too afraid to modify a kite.