Next week sees the Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) programme take to the air for the first time, as we test the Vulture 1 GPS unit. The lightweight air-to-ground comms package (more details here) has been designed by radio man Steve Daniels (callsign G6UIM) to fit snugly inside our paper plane. It transmits a signal …

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Friday 28th May 2010 13:27 GMT LB

Vulture 1 GPS tracking test

Good luck PARIS and Steve, will follow wuth interest.

Fellow radio ham callsign G6HFS.

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Friday 28th May 2010 14:17 GMT I didn't do IT.

Top Airborne Secret

My completely uneducated and non-sourced guess is an (manned) ultralight.

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1. Friday 28th May 2010 15:48 GMT Annihilator
  
  Or...
  
  An RC helicopter? Or dropping it off a tall building?
  
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Friday 28th May 2010 14:52 GMT Gordon is not a Moron

Classified airborne-ness

strapping it to under carrage of a real Vulture would seem appropriate

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Friday 28th May 2010 14:52 GMT Anonymous Coward

PARIS Getting High.

Naughty Naughty...

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Friday 28th May 2010 16:27 GMT SteveD

Camera and transmitters

I will be taking a camera, and what with the transmitters and antenna. No doubt we will be spending the night at her Majesty's pleasure.

We won't be going to the Giraffe Cafe thats for sure

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1. Friday 28th May 2010 19:13 GMT Anonymous Coward
  
  Hey Steve....
  
  ...just make sure you've got plenty of capacity in whatever you're using to power that 817, otherwise the batteries will be flat before you know it!
  
  Good luck....you'll need it!
  
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  1. Friday 28th May 2010 23:12 GMT SteveD
    
    receiving
    
    just a bit more to what lester said. We hope to transmit on 433.950MHz and hope to have at least 100km coverage. We would welcome anyone who can to send to the APRS system to do so. Also reception reports of the APRS and beacon signals.
    
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Sunday 30th May 2010 16:21 GMT Anonymous John

Re Finnish APRS site aprs.fi

Almost an anagram of Paris. Effing paper aeroplane released into space?

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Sunday 30th May 2010 16:29 GMT Anonymous Coward

graf zeppelin vulture carryed plane

"Of course, you're all wondering just how we intend to get the unit airborne. That's currently classified, but all will be revealed in due course... ®"

clearly your going to use the

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8EVGGA26HY

helped the the newest top secret Royal Navy destroyer HMS Vulture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Vulture

were you release the http://www.ahomls.com/kennyp/vulture.JPG carrying the plane.

as clearly there's no good volcanic ash ploom's to get a good 5 miles air list to start you off and and beardy branson's airship 2 is not available at this time

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