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(Video) Father and son film outer space, do-it-yourself style
The duo housed the video camera, iPhone, and GPS equipment in a specially designed insulated casing, along with some hand-warmers and a note from Max requesting its safe return from whomever may find it after making it back to solid ground. All told, father and son spent eight months preparing for their homemade journey into space, in hopes of filming "the blackness beyond our earth." (green.yahoo.com) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
as a GA pilot (for the moment) i would definitely not want this 1500fpm projectile hitting me. what's more, on my commercial cross country in early August i flew over this area, using the Pawling VOR as a waypoint. the Hudson around this area is insanely busy with NYC airliner traffic. but either way, weather balloon + 72 inch prop = not good, and that's assuming the prop hits the balloon first.
Radiosonde weather balloons (which use the actual balloon itself they used)are launched on the hour by the hundreds worldwide. Some pilots like myself have been 'lucky' enough to see one in the flight levels -as they are very rare to encounter even though thousands may be launched in a given day. I have never heard of a plane being brought down by one -or even hitting one for that matter. So relax guys... this was a neat father/son endeavor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_balloon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosonde
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_balloon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosonde
Radiosonde weather balloons (which use the actual balloon itself they used)are launched on the hour by the hundreds worldwide. Some pilots like myself have been 'lucky' enough to see one in the flight levels -as they are very rare to encounter even though thousands may be launched in a given day. I have never heard of a plane being brought down by one -or even hitting one for that matter. So relax guys... this was a neat father/son endeavor.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_balloon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosonde
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weather_balloon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiosonde
A great inspiring project! It would be a nightmare for the progress of mankind should these kind of initiatives be banned for about 0.001% extra air traffic security!
This is the most awesome home movie ever.
http://www.thailandholidayhomes.co.uk/loy-krathong-holiday.html
Images of the Loy Krathong Holiday festival I mentioned in the previous post. What do you think of the number of balloons rising here! They were not as concentrated on short final as they spead out as they ascend. We might have hit a couple.
Images of the Loy Krathong Holiday festival I mentioned in the previous post. What do you think of the number of balloons rising here! They were not as concentrated on short final as they spead out as they ascend. We might have hit a couple.