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Transatlantic Model Airplane Flight to Begin Shortly
dtmos writes "An update on this old story -- Maynard Hill's attempt to fly an 11-lb. model airplane across the Atlantic (from Newfoundland to Ireland) is due to begin tomorrow night, Newfoundland time. This would be the first transatlantic flight by a true model under FAI rules (this plane was too large to qualify). News and updates, background information, some technical info."
Stuart Little will be able to visit his relatives overseas!
I'm continually stunned by what mankind can accomplish in this day and age. A century ago, crossing the Atlantic meant going by steamship. A century before that it meant sailing, and hoping you weren't boarded by pirates. A few centuries before that it was impossible! Now we can do it with a model airplane; what next?
Ha. I won't be impressed until they can do it with a paper airplane.
I hope they remember to wind that rubber band up really really tightly...
Common sense is what tells you the world is flat.
if you launch a paper plane from mir it is not going to fily very far at all. ocean water will destroy the paper.
Won't mum be pleased!
Eclectic beats from Leeds, UK
handmadehands.co.uk
... floating along in his rickety fishing vessel in the North Atlantic hundreds of miles off the coast and probably as far from any other human being when suddenly he looks up and sees....
nnnnneeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr......
this little red plane buzzing by.
One of two things will happen. Either he'll jump overboard... or he'll finally give up the sauce.
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
Now we can lay our own trans-alantic cable.
Looks good on paper at least.
Table-ized A.I.