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

Posted by timothy on Thursday April 11, 2013 @01:50AM 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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Re:Sad. by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-11 05:19 · Score: 5, Informative

Also, in the U.S. lowly citizens aren't allowed to use those types of radios and power levels in order to have the range for remote control, video and telemetry. FCC regulations ban them.
No, they ban them from unlicensed use. But getting a license has been getting easier and easier every year...
Heaven forbid some work is done toward managing common resources like airspace used for travel and radio spectrum, so they don't suffer from tragedy of the commons.