Highest altitude by a train of kites

A record height of 9,740 m (31,955 ft) was attained by a train of eight kites over Lindenberg, Germany, on 1 August 1919, flown by the Prussian Meteorological Institute (Germany). This record was recognized by Kite Lines magazine.

The design was a modified version of the Hargrave box kite. The first kite in the train had a surface of 10 m², the second 5 m² and the other six kites were 8 m². The flying line was some 15 km (9.3 mi) long and made with thick piano wire.

The undisputed highest altitude by a single kite is 4,879.54 m (16,009 ft) and was achieved by Robert Moore (Australia) in Cobar, New South Wales, Australia on 23 September 2014. Logbooks have emerged from the Lindenberg Meteorological Observatory in Bavaria, Germany, that report a single kite reaching an altitude of 7,358 m (24,140 ft) on 13 July 1938, but there is currently no corroboratory evidence to verify that flight.