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  Friday, 30 April 2004


I just found out that kite buggying might not be as new as I thought it was. I thought the kite buggy was a recent invention, but in 1826 an English school teacher, George Pocock, patented the char-volant.

Basically a lightweight carriage, the invention could carry four or five passengers at speeds up to 20mph, and it was powered by, wait for it.... a stack of two arch top kites. The kites were controlled by four lines and the vehicle could travel down-wind and across the wind, by steering the kites to the left or right of the winds course.

Sounds suspiciously like a kite buggy to me.

I managed to find a picture of one....


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