On the 10th February, 1900, a kite flown by M. Delcourt, at Calais, France, broke away, and, dragging its line through the sea, landed at Burmarsh, England, a distance of 35 miles.

This suggested to me to test the possibility of delivering a message in France from England by kite.

On the 14th April, 1906, in an E N E wind, blowing about 30 miles an hour, I flew a diamond shaped box-kite (provided with keel for extra stability), and, attaching the line of 400 feet to a drag 30 feet long, and weighing 12 pounds, launched the apparatus from the beach at Brighton. A message, enclosed in a wooden bottle, was suspended from the body of the kite, asking for information from the finder, but no tidings have yet come to hand.