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Pass Written by Eden Maxwell  Modern kite sports  After World
War II several new generic kite forms rekindled interest in kite
flying in the West. In 1948 the American aeronautical engineer
Francis Rogallo patented a completely flexible kite with no
rigid supporting spars, which was the forerunner of the delta
kite and modern hang gliding. The sled kite, invented by William
Allison, came into being in the 1950s, and the parafoil,
invented by Domina Jalbert, was a highly original design created
in the 1960s. Flying kites continued as a popular pastime over
the next two decades.  During the 1980s kite flying with
precision-controlled acrobatic stunt kites became popular.
Principally chevron-shaped deltas and flexible ram-air soft
designs, stunt kites, flown alone or in multiples—one stacked
behind the other—can perform high-speed aerial maneuvers such as
figure eights, sharp turns, stops in midair, flying backward,
and other complex acrobatics. Stun