Warning on kite flying
' Kite flying and overhead power lines do not mix, and the result of tangles can be serious. The chief engineer of the Municipal Electricity Department, Mr G. Johnston, said that the August school holiday kite-flying season was a worrying time for the M.E.D. Servicemen removed about 100 kites from overhead power lines during the kite-flying season, which cost time and money, he said. But the main danger was with children trying to release the kites once they were entangled on a power line.
“The child pulls the string, which pulls the lines together," he said. Many power lines carried 11,000 volts. Kites with metallic strings, with metal in their tails, or with wet strings, would conduct highvoltage electricity when they touched the wires, Mr Johnston said.
If a kite tangled with lines it should be abandoned, and the M.E.D. called. Civil Aviation regulations ban kites from controlled air space — mainly near airports. Outside this area they should not be flown higher than 60 metres, (about 200 feet). ■
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Press, 27 August 1980, Page 10
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