No weekend family outing to the park should include a child nearly stuffing a kite into an airliner's whirling turbofan engine. Police at Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC confiscated a kite ...

Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority said kite-flying is not allowed at Gravelly Point in Arlington, Virginia, as it poses a risk to planes landing at DCA.

Sure, there have been kite planes before, but this one’s maker claims his to be the most durable yet. It’s a radio-controlled airplane/kite configuration that runs on a rechargeable battery and can ...