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TIGHAR had tried a video camera-carrying kite during [[Niku II (1991)]], but stability in the strong trade winds was a | TIGHAR had tried a video camera-carrying kite during [[Niku II (1991)]], but stability in the strong trade winds was a | ||
problem (just watching the tape made everybody sick.) | problem (just watching the tape made everybody sick.) | ||
* [http://www.flickr.com/photos/flickrdave/sets/72157601511040476/ Niku V KAP photos on Flickr.] | |||
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Brooks Leffler and David Wheeler built and donated a kite-borne photography system that enabled our Aerial Recon Team to get wonderfully detailed low-altitude overhead imagery of the Seven Site and the reef near the Norwich City shipwreck on the Niku V expedition (2007). KAP was also used to help survey the "Maid of Harlech."
TIGHAR had tried a video camera-carrying kite during Niku II (1991), but stability in the strong trade winds was a problem (just watching the tape made everybody sick.)