Kite flight grounded
Saturday 21 May 1994 23:02 BST
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A bizarre bid to lift a man 2,500 feet with kites to beat a 90-year-old record was wrecked by the weather yesterday. A German team will try again today to lift Alfons Kramer in a basket attached to five huge kites on the Isle of Wight.
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