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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. Published on Mar 7, 2013 by Internal+Modem · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Total flight time was 108 minutes. Total distance between launch and landing site was 101km.