https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ecfaf21c-e831-45c3-bce9-443b96f85fbe Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com Dating to 1946, "Target Kite Manipulations" is a training film that shows how to use target kites in ship defense gunnery practice. Target kites were developed by the Special Devices Branch and Dr. Paul E. Garber, who later gained fame as the founder of the National Air and Space Museum and its senior historian. Garber's interest in kites dated to childhood, when he was approached by none other than Alexander Graham Bell -- who showed him that his kite was not assembled properly. Many WWII target kites were manufactured by the A. G. Spalding & Bros. company, a leading sporting goods manufacturer, others were constructed by Comet Model Airplane & Supply Co. and Ballard Aircraft Corp. Over 250K kites were made during the war. You can find out much more about WWII Target Kites at Charles Hall's website: http://robroy.dyndns.info/targetkites/ We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hDGrOQIxBc Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:24:45 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/ecfaf21c-e831-45c3-bce9-443b96f85fbe All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.