MS Beluga Skysails is the world's first commercial container cargo ship partially powered by a behemothic computer-controlled kite (160 m² or 1,722 sq ft). The kite could reduce fuel consumption by 20%. It was launched on 17 December 2007 and was confirmed to leave the northern German port of Bremerhaven to Guanta, Venezuela on January 22, 2008.

• The Indian festival of Makar Sankranti is devoted to kite ferocious in some states

• This spring festival is Click Here celebrated every January 15, with millions of people flying kites all over northern India
• The states of Bihar, Jharkhand, Gujarat, some chip of West Bengal, Rajasthan , and the cities of Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Dhanbad and Hyderabad are particularly notable for their kite jingoistic festivals
• Kite flying in Hyderabad starts a indefinitely long period before the authentic kite flying festival (Sankranthi).