Citations:shufti kite

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English citations of shufti kite

  • 1977, Gordon Landsborough, The Dead Commando (Glasshouse gang series)‎[1], Wingate, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 32:
    Not much more than an hour after they had taken the fort, a shufti kite came buzzing over.
  • 1986, Roald Dahl, Going Solo[2], Penguin UK, published 2012, →ISBN, →OCLC:
    A German shufti kite reconnoitring the area. It had to be a German. There were no other aircraft in Greece now except for our Hurricanes, and it wasn't one of those.
  • 2016 October 27, Rob Rice, Archival: Most Secret[3], Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN, →OCLC:
    So we sat on the ground and watched Jerry's shufti kites flying over our heads, taking pictures, getting ready for what happened.
  • 2020 January 10, Boaz Dvir, Saving Israel: The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation’s Independence[4], Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 196:
    Since it appears to travel from north to south every day, Modi believes the Shufti Kite takes off from Syria. Ezer pins it on Iraq.
    “I'd love to go up there and find out,” Giddy says.
    The shifty reconnaissance plane, they say, flies beyond the reach of the Messerschmitts or any other IAF plane.