Box Kite

About this item

Title

Box Kite

Content partner

MOTAT

Collection

MOTAT

Description

Box kite salvaged from the Liberator crash at Whenuapai in 1943, the aeroplane taking Japanese interns/refugees to America. These kites were used to fly an aerial from a rubber life raft, to enable the user to radio for help. Came in a long cylindrical metal tube. Made of yellow cotton fabric around thin hollow aluminium rods. There are two kite...

Format

Image

Date created

Circa 1940s

Creator

Hoffman Radio Corporation, Manufacturer

URL

https://collection.motat.nz/objects/2675

Related subjects

Kite / Tools & Equipment for Communication / Aerospace Transportation T&E / Aircraft

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