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Description
Inflating balloon for data pickup by C-130 aircraft. To rapidly transfer 3 GBof data from ship in BOMEX to shore facility required streaming datacannister from balloon and devising means to retrieve from C-130 aircraft.
Photographer
Elmer Larsen
Collection
Sailing for Science
NOAA Affiliation
NOAA
OMAO