As a kid we spent our summers on the beach. You could always count on a strong onshore breeze every evening.
Flying a kite is a mindless activity but we’d walk down to the boardwalk almost every night, meet up with other people doing the same thing and do it for at least an hour. We were easily entertained.
Once Charlie Brown got his kite up really high. Linus was really excited. And then the kite exploded. As the debris slowly drifted down, Charlie Brown redefined sad.
My mom had a beach house. I spent a lot of time on the beach teaching tourists and their kids how to fly a kite. Prevailing winds were nice, but you had to know how to get it in the air in the first place.
We spent our summers as kids at Lake Erie in Ontario. We had a lightweight metal airplane with “wings” that rotated with the wind and kept the plane way up. Not sure about the physics of that. Fun part was that the birds hated it, and would attack it, and we’d have to tug the string to keep it (and the birds) from being damaged.
Templo S.U.D. over 4 years ago
pretty pathetic
comic4matt over 4 years ago
Sick burn!
jpayne4040 over 4 years ago
Only two hours? No big deal! You guys got this! Go for it, Marcus! /s
dflak over 4 years ago
As a kid we spent our summers on the beach. You could always count on a strong onshore breeze every evening.
Flying a kite is a mindless activity but we’d walk down to the boardwalk almost every night, meet up with other people doing the same thing and do it for at least an hour. We were easily entertained.
LeeCox over 4 years ago
I see Marcus is looking to get nominated for a Darwin Award!
oakie817 over 4 years ago
famous last words?
Petemejia77 over 4 years ago
Thought that was the 1/10 scale model?
Auntie Socialist over 4 years ago
Not always; the tree incidents are the successful runs
betseytacy over 4 years ago
I thought that was the prototype. Wasn’t the finished kite suppose to be ten times as big???
txmystic over 4 years ago
Charlie Brown, tangled in kite string and hanging upside-down from a tree, is one of the finest images in comics lore.
Bruce388 over 4 years ago
Once Charlie Brown got his kite up really high. Linus was really excited. And then the kite exploded. As the debris slowly drifted down, Charlie Brown redefined sad.
tripwire45 over 4 years ago
Maybe they need a windy day.
marilynnbyerly over 4 years ago
My mom had a beach house. I spent a lot of time on the beach teaching tourists and their kids how to fly a kite. Prevailing winds were nice, but you had to know how to get it in the air in the first place.
Bob. over 4 years ago
Pensacola Beach was great for kite flying.
Ray_C over 4 years ago
We spent our summers as kids at Lake Erie in Ontario. We had a lightweight metal airplane with “wings” that rotated with the wind and kept the plane way up. Not sure about the physics of that. Fun part was that the birds hated it, and would attack it, and we’d have to tug the string to keep it (and the birds) from being damaged.
asrialfeeple over 4 years ago
GOOD GRIEF!!