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Swedish Engineer's RC Plane Gets a Balloon Lift To Space

Posted by timothy on from the purely-awesome dept.

mask.of.sanity writes "A Swedish engineer has sent his radio controlled airplane to the edge of space using a weather balloon. It reached 33,100 metres before the balloon popped. The trip is captured on film and he has detailed the project in a blog. Amazing stuff."

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  1. Re:all these balloons by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    End up somewhere, usually in the stomachs of marine mammals.

    Marine mammals? Like US Marines? I knew they were tough, but eating weather balloons?! Damn!