So if you grew up (or just watched cartoons) during the 90's there was a show called, "Tailspin" by Disney. It was a retelling of Jungle Book into a 1920's flying adventure, with one of the characters a kid called Kit. One of the things he would do was jump out the back of the airplane and with a wing on his feet, would "waterski" behind the plane doing loops and whatnot. I always thought that would be so fun!
As I grew older and got into airships, I again thought of Kit. With the slow speed of a zepellin you could design a small wing and cloud surf behind it with some sort of control. Yes, this is probably wrong but it still seemed fun. And now I found a pic of someone literally water skiing behind an airship. Ah the early days of flight!
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