kite-like

British RAF pilots in the early 20th century were the first to spot the strange kite-like lines on the deserts of Israel, Jordan and Egypt from the air and wonder about their origins.

Mysterious Desert Lines Found To Be Animal Traps | Impact Lab 2010

Of immediate concern to myself was the inclination of the huge reflector panel I was holding to whip off into the sky, kite-like, never to be seen again.

Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish 2009

However, while the metal Airbus A380 weighs a whopping 580 tonnes, the dainty carbon fiber Solar Impulse weighs just 1.5 tonnes – which seems almost kite-like compared the gigantic heavy planes of the past.

SOLAR IMPULSE Solar Powered Plane Takes Off! | Inhabitat 2007

Of immediate concern to myself was the inclination of the huge reflector panel I was holding to whip off into the sky, kite-like, never to be seen again.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009

The kite-like craft was built by the Aerial Experiment Association, led by Alexander Graham Bell, who maintained a summer home in Baddeck.

Golden Hawk Sabre to fly again 2008

We got to visit Seaport Village, where there were some nifty kite-like objects decorating the air:

April 2005 2005

We got to visit Seaport Village, where there were some nifty kite-like objects decorating the air:

Well, I'm Back! 2005

Kim looked his astonishment; but from the edge of the sheep-pasture floated a shrill, kite-like trill.

Kim 2003

The guny swoops for it and misses, and the flying - fish, gaining its altitude by rising, kite-like, against the wind, turns in a half-circle and skims off to leeward, gliding on the bosom of the wind.

Chapter 9 1913

The guny swoops for it and misses, and the flying - fish, gaining its altitude by rising, kite-like, against the wind, turns in a half-circle and skims off to leeward, gliding on the bosom of the wind.

Chapter 9 1911