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Sam Perkins set many records with his new invention, but when he tried to sell the military on it, they told him to go fly a kite. Samuel F. Perkins was only 27 in January 1911 when the called him “the greatest authority in the world on man-carrying kites.” Los Angeles Herald Eighteen months earlier …
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