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WEIGHING IN BEFORE THE FLIGHT - Marine weighs the balloon he has just inflated before he sends it aloft to make a study of wind conditions. The shuttlecock in his hand through which the balloon was inflated, is provided with slots in one of which he is placing on a 10 gram proper buoyancy. South Pacific
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