as attempts to break a world record go, it was pretty impressive a chinese team took a kite measuring an astonishing 6,000 metres (37 miles) to a kite flying festival   aiming to break the world record by a massive 1,000 metres but they had overlooked the fact that their kite was so big, it posed a danger to passing aircraft the kite, dubbed 'centipede with a dragon's head', was set to fly at the wulong international kite festival last saturday in chongqing in south western china, according to people's daily online scroll down for video  flying high: half of the 6,000 metre long dragon themed kite took to the sky in chongqing last saturday  skilful: the kite weighs 200 kilograms and requires three experienced kite flyers to manoeuvre  however, chinese aviation authorities ruled that the dragon themed kite   which is made from 2,000 separate pieces and weighs a whopping 200 kilograms   could not be flown, and the team were forced to fly only half of it the weather at the kite flying festival in chongqing undoubtedly played a part, with a heavy mist reducing visibility not only for pilots but for spectators who had turned up to witness the annual event each of the 2,000 pieces bears the chinese characters 'china dream' and it takes eight hours to get the full length kite airborne wang dongming, one of the three kite flyers, said special sturdier rope made from kevlar   which is also used to make bulletproof vests   had to be used to thread the  kite mr wang said: 'big kites and kites that are used for trick flying are usually built from this kevlar rope to prevent the line from snapping in the wind' in order to secure the pieces on the kite, craftsmen only used bamboo that was more than three years old which can resist severe wind colourful: kites of all shapes and shades take to the sky in chongqing during the four day long festival  although the kite did not fly full length, organisers of the festival still claimed that they had broken the guinness world record for the longest kite in the world the previous record is reported to set by a 5,000m long kite made by craftsmen in weifang in eastern china last spring professional kite flying teams from over 13 countries participated in the four day long wulong international kite festival, including representatives from china, new zealand, the uk and italy historical: a popular pastime in china, kite flying dates back some 2,000 years  global appeal: professional kite flying teams from over 13 countries participated in the festival 
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