Woah! It worked! and....flying free in a couple hours!

[Jonathan R. Trappe]

THANK YOU for coming out and getting the system together inside Dorton!  Such an unusual way to fly-- and we do it to ALTITUDE in a few hours-- early tomorrow morning!  Will you check on us?  Here are the links:

APRS:

http://aprs.fi/?call=KJ4GQV&mt=roadmap&z=11&timerange=172800

SPOT:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0s4Q04gaaoV9KnJ0UMb7h5b90telngQjv

More soon, with photos!!

-Trappe

[Adrian Likins]

Some pics up at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alikins/sets/72157629522266139/

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[Adrian Likins]

Cool. Looks like you flew almost directly over Statesville High School at 7:50

and you are just about to fly over the Freightliner factory in Cleveland, NC.

Adrian

[Christopher Gorski]

So, Trappe, how was the flight???

 

Last I saw you, you were visually darn near stationary (...probably drifting away from me) near the regular hot-air balloon and that helicopter was circling around nearby...  and I didn't see either of you fall overboard by then, at least (:

 

Looked like y'all were airborne 'til something like 3:30 and you put a good deal of distance behind you--I guess everything went well?  

 

Did one of you end up cutting away a couple of balloons to descend, then...?

 

 

Wish I could have run chase, too, but I had way more of a blast getting y'all launched than I would have in the C++ mines!

 

--me

 

 

... I did get a few pictures that are at least snapshot quality--I'll sort through them soon and see what I've got that's any good and send a flickr link or something!

 

 

 

 

On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 6:05 PM, Jonathan R. Trappe <jtr...@yahoo.com> wrote: