Kite the Antarctica

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Barry P
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Kite the Antarctica

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Kit-Kat & Advance is setting up for a Christmas crossing of the Antarctica. A 1000 Km route. The expedition web site: http://www.icekites.com
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Paul F
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Joe Murphy, who used to windsurf Calohoun skied across Antarctica. I searched the web for his book about the trip, but couldn't find it. I did find a different ski trek using kites(or is it a sail?) though.

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http://www.dtic.mil/armylink/news/Dec20 ... ctica.html
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Eric S
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Post by Eric S »

I think they call that kite a "NASA wing". The come in really BIG versions too

"Do you want to know more?"

http://www.xs4all.nl/~pdj/nasaplan.htm
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