Comment by Jhon on March 18, 2009 at 7:41pm

nothing new, natrium42 done it already a few years ago

http://natrium42.com/halo/flight2/

probably they took the idea from the halo project...

Comment by Howard Gordon on March 19, 2009 at 6:11am

No doubt. What I thought significant was that it was a group of high school kids (with adult supervision) who gained international attention. This will motivate many similar efforts, to the horror of FAA and their counterparts worldwide.

Comment by Tom Kent on March 19, 2009 at 7:23am

When I was in undergrad at Iowa State we did this once a month or so. We launched the balloons from our campus in Ames, and tracked them across the state, the (usually) recovered them.

http://www.sscl.iastate.edu/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=31

Lots of fun :-)

Comment by paul hubner on March 19, 2009 at 7:29am

Good for them! These legal amateur flights remind us that what they (and We! ) build are the platforms that will be used for new science and engineering in the future.

www.Hapb.net

Paul
I am a tad jealous that their pictures came of better than ours ;-)

Comment by Howard Gordon on March 19, 2009 at 12:13pm

I wondered about the legality. I'm very glad to see that it is allowed:

http://www.viennawireless.org/balloon/index.php

http://www.eoss.org/pubs/far_annotated.htm

Comment by iMix by Dj Manga on March 26, 2009 at 8:59am

genious

Comment by Daniel Nugent on October 25, 2011 at 7:17pm

haha are you serious. I did this alone with no adult supervision. All my work,money, and success. I'm a sophomore in high school.  

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