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High School Student Launches a Trash Bag Aircraft

Posted by timothy on Saturday September 24, 2011 @04:30AM from the only-terrorists-want-that-much-helium dept.

An anonymous reader writes with a great write-up of a project completed last month by Manuja Gunaratne: "A high school student at Advanced Technologies Academy in Las Vegas, Nevada managed to launch an aircraft using trash bags. The trash bag aircraft traveled for hundreds of miles and rose to thousands of feet while capturing thousands of images of the Earth. The trash bag craft consisted of household equipment and only cost $50."

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Yay! by Anonymous Coward · 2011-09-24 04:39 · Score: 4, Insightful

More helium stocks depleted!
1. Re:Yay! by hawguy · 2011-09-24 04:58 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  More helium stocks depleted!
  Don't blame the kid that bought the Helium, blame the helium repositories that don't price it as the scarce resource that it is. If a 244 ft^3 tank cost $1000 instead of $100, then maybe there would be less waste.