LOHAN takes the stage at Oz Linux shindig Our Oz readers attending the forthcoming linux.conf.au 2016 shindig in Geelong might like to catch Andrew Tridgell's presentation on "Helicopters and Rocket-Planes", which will include a look at our Low Orbit Helium Assisted Navigator (LOHAN) Vulture 2 spaceplane. As regular readers know, Linux guru Tridge has been working on …
I don't know why you don't combine LOHAN with another Reg hobby and launch the damn thing from Rockall?
- Places that have the rocket, but don't allow you to launch them you - the US
- Places that don't have the rocket, but would allow you to launch them - the EU
What you need - and I'm no rocket surgeon here - is a union of places that have the rocket AND a place that let you use them.
A simple bit of analytics and maths would have saved years of battling both Spain and the US to get LOHAN off the ground.
- Places that have the rocket, but don't allow you to launch them you - the US
- Places that don't have the rocket, but would allow you to launch them - the EU
So you tie the rocket to a balloon (which you were going to do anyway), check the winds for a couple of days that will cause it to drift from the US to the UK, launch the balloon, then once LOHAN is over the UK fire the rocket.
Have you actually contacted these guys? http://www.ukra.org.uk/
Pretty sure that if they cant import the load you require that some of them could instead build an equivalent load to the same specs and dimensions. And if you cannot get an explosives licence (which might not even be needed - see here http://www.ukra.org.uk/legal) then all it would take is to ask one of the members who does have such a licence to join your merry group and store the materials.
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