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Fans of our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) project might enjoy an interview I did earlier this week with Christiaan van Vollenstee of DIY Drones. The chat, beamed live from the SPB's mountaintop HQ on Wednesday, features discussion of various aspects of our audacious ballocket mission and a particularly fine …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
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    High expectations

    Whilst prostrating myself (anonymously) before the SPB worthies and their collaborators, it occurs to me this is all a high risk endeavour. A stiff servo, a software bug, just bad luck - it could all go pear shaped. Is there yet time to stuff the hull with gunpowder scraped out of fireworks so that if the worst comes to the worst, it is at least spectacular?

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      Re: High expectations

      I wonder if NASA thought the same with Apollo 1...

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  2. Richard Altmann

    HD 25

    Best reasonable priced headphones ever produced.

    I´m right now flipping through "Das Buch der Astronautik" by A.F. Marfeld published in 1963.

    It´s an amazing manual of how to get things into space. With the history, math, physics and chemistry and whatever one needs to get going. Pre moon landing hardcore.

    Godspeed

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    pliers

    Lovely pair of pliers. Magnificent.

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  4. Johndoe888

    Rather than a catapult, a takeoff dolly may be a better option, such as http://www.homegrowntv.com/speed.jpg

    I strongly suggest that initial flight tests should be done with a cheap and disposable 1/2 scale Depron version.

    For the canard servos maybe Hitec HS-85MG http://hitecrcd.com/products/servos/micro-and-mini-servos/analog-micro-and-mini-servos/hs-85mg-premium-metal-gear-micro-servo/product

    You don't need a pusher prop, just run the 3 phase motor in the correct direction with a tractor prop and mount it with a prop saver.

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  5. Anonymous Coward
    Pint

    Anyone else see something wrong with this picture?

    http://regmedia.co.uk/2012/11/11/playmonaut_blondes.jpg

    So there's the pilot sitting there, with blondes all around, wine glass in hand…and suited up complete with helmet. How's he supposed to drink?

    Icon: because placing one of these in front of him would be considered torture.

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