I designed and constructed this video system for the NASA Kuiper Airborne Observatory. Eight hours of live television programming was broadcast from the KAO while flying across the US at 41,000 feet via PBS television stations as far away as Hawaii. Live intercontinental television had never been transmitted from an aircraft before. The program was called Live From The Stratosphere.

Ten cameras were switched from this rack for the live broadcasts. All ten cameras were gen-locked and color phased, a requirement if dissolves are to be made from one camera to another, and also to prevent discontinuities in the video stream to the CODEC.