Comment by emile on July 3, 2012 at 2:23am

Congrats! Hust can't imagine how high is 100K feet! Do you have som other cool pics to show us?

Cheers,

Emile

Moderator Comment by Gary Mortimer on July 3, 2012 at 3:39am

Wow what an image! Nice one.

Comment by Robert Pigeon on July 3, 2012 at 7:35am

 What country are you in? How do you get permission to fly up to 100,000 feet? Or do you you just do it and claim ignorance of the laws? Well done either way!

Moderator Comment by Sgt Ric on July 3, 2012 at 8:59am

Here in Canada at least, balloons seem to be an regulatory anomaly, and can easily be made compliant with only a call to the feds giving location and expected flightpath.

This from the blog of a group around Vancouver who have used balloons to launch their autonomous gliders from quite high altitiudes.

http://www.canuck-boffin.net/sonde/index.htm

 

Comment by Earl on July 3, 2012 at 9:25am

yes I will post more imiges and short video clips.
we are in Albuquerque NM USA We file with the FAA, no problem.
on the glider flight, we are going to go in steps like 5000, 10000, 25000, then if we feel ready , the big one at 100,000.
Earl

Comment by Robert Pigeon on July 3, 2012 at 6:14pm

You can get permission for the glider too?

Comment by Jonas H. on July 4, 2012 at 2:43pm

Hi,

I launched my glider already (my flying wing). It reached about 15000m altitude, but the keycams failed and the storage of the AMP was to small to record all the data. But it returned back to the launch position as I wanted and so I'm very happy to have my glider back again. I switched to RTL and all worked wonderful.

Comment by Carl La France on July 5, 2012 at 12:04am

Congratulations Earl! It is nice to see" Pioneers of Flight" doing their thing! You can tell how stretched the balloon must have been by the fragments at the end of the tear . One time Air Traffic Control had us on the Look out for a runaway "Mini Blimp" that was holding up a flag at a shopping mall and broke loose . and got up amongst the jets I don't know how high it went before it burst ? do you pop the balloon at 100,000 ? or does it just break from expansion? Have a Good Day!

Comment by Earl on July 5, 2012 at 10:07am

Can you provide more info on your glider flight? We are going to test about middle of July.
Earl

Comment by Jonas H. on July 5, 2012 at 11:59pm

I tested my glider first on a paragliding launch and all worked perfect. Than I launched it with a 300g weather balloon. (The bigger one costs to mouch).
My Glider is a selfmade flying wing similar to the "dizzy bird", but much more faster. I made a room with depron where I put in all the electronics to isolate them a little bit. Next launch I will add also a handwarmer or something similar, because the two keycams didn't record. At launch I switched to RTL and the popped balloon I let hanging on the glieder in flight to home. Next time I will enable only GPS and altitude in the log, because I have enabled all and so there wasn't enough space to storage the flight. But the RTL of the AMP 2.0 worked really good. When I saw the glider again, I switched on the radio and landed it in MANUAL mode.

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