“Kite-flying is prohibited at Gravelly Point due to low-flying aircraft landing at DCA,” the department said in a statement. Jamie Larounis, a travel analyst, said he was at Gravelly Point on ...

The pilots reported the kite flying over Gravelly Point, a park just off the runway along the banks of the Potomac River on the Virginia side, according to Air Traffic Control audio. Flying kites ...

anyone and everyone with a daring idea produced a flying machine, from Albert Einstein and his ill-fated wing to Thomas Edison and his box kite-type rotor biplane. “There were a lot of fairly ...