I'm making a note here, HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction.
Tim Brooks from Ontario gave me a call this morning to say he has the Explorer, and is going to ship it back! Hooray!
Despite a few glitches-
1) Failing to wake for the first 9 hours of the journey
2) GPS antenna pointing at the ground reporting an altitude of "--15,000" feet
3) Landing in less than a day (!!!)
4) Camera failure after hanging in the tree
... it still took some nice pictures and phoned home well enough!
Thanks everyone for following and cheering on the little Explorer. I think its time to retire her.
-Chris
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Can't he just attach some more balloons, charge it and set her aloft again ?
ReplyDeleteIf you get her back .. you know you'll be itching to launch it again ;-)
FYI, launching from AH with a west wind means you put the explorer straight through O'hare class B airspace, and broke some FAA laws. Good think it did not go through a plane engine. Think about this next time you launch!
ReplyDeleteCraig the ME
(Craig and I chatted, I think we're fine for FAA Regs.)
ReplyDeletehttp://ecfr.gpoaccess.gov/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=ecfr&sid=d0395ba59e4f8673a4e8558ab466cf77&tpl=/ecfrbrowse/Title14/14cfr101_main_02.tpl
101.1 Applicability section (4) has weight limits (>4 lbs) that if you exceed, you have to declare yourself to appropriate authorities... at 4 ounces total payload weight, we're in the clear.