scrapironflotilla: The construction of a French observation kite on the Champagne front, 1916.
scrapironflotilla: The construction of a French observation kite on the Champagne front, 1916.One of the more bizarre improvisations of the War were observation kites. The technology behind the kites had been developed over the last couple of decades but had been largely ignored after the invention of airplanes. The kites would be used to suspend a camera several hundred feet into the air to take photos of the front to augment that taken by planes and observation balloons. A video of the construction of these kinds of kites can be seen here. -- source link
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