[aprssig] Coast-to-Coast Balloon Flight (non-burst?)

[Lynn W. Deffenbaugh (Mr)]

I think nearly all of us would like to know what prevented the 
bursting!  This group has been doing balloons a long time, both 
up-and-down and floaters and have been (apparently) perfecting their 
technique.  They launched two floaters at the same time, K6RPT-11 and 
K6RPT-12.  -12 had the type of flight they were used to, although I 
think even it exceeded their range expectations..

 From everything I've read, they were forecasting maybe Colorado, maybe 
hoping for a trans-continental flight, but certainly (I don't think) not 
expecting a trans--atlantic flight.  It was just a latex envelope with a 
low fill for low payload and plenty of room for high altitude expansion 
without bursting, a floater flight plan.

It was, however, in the end completely AMAZING to watch!  
Congratulations to the team, and a big THANKS to those hams that got the 
message and switched over to monitor 144.390 so that the balloon could 
be tracked to its eventual demise in the Mediterranean.

Lynn (D) - KJ4ERJ - Author of APRSISCE for Windows Mobile and Win32

PS.  There's a series of screenshots of my APRSIS32 instance tracking 
the balloon both across the USA as well as across the Azores, Landfall, 
and includes a detailed zoom in on the final descent beacons.  You can 
see them at http://tinyurl.com/6lq22pu

On 12/15/2011 8:21 AM, Bob Bruninga wrote:
> OK, finally a few bits of info:
> http://www.californianearspaceproject.com/CNSP-11_info.html
>
> I guess I thought it was a super-pressure balloon.  But from the photos, it
> appears to be just a regular balloon?...
> Or was it oversized simply so that it would not burst?  I'd like more info
> on what prevented bursting...
>
> Bob, WB4APR
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: aprssig-bounces at tapr.org [mailto:aprssig-bounces at tapr.org] On Behalf
> Of Bob Bruninga
> Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2011 8:15 AM
> To: 'TAPR APRS Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [aprssig] Coast-to-Coast Balloon Flight
>
> But it's not an update if the last thing posted was PRE-LAUNCH weather.  No
> mention whatsoever even mentioning LAUNCH or the historic flight that I can
> find!
> Bob
>
>>> But in reviewing all the emails, I can find no other reference to WHO
>>> launched it and what it is.
>> The details on this particular mission was on the California
>> Near Space Project Website at:
> <http://www.californianearspaceproject.com/news_update.html>
>
>
>>  From the CNSP home page, you had to click "Events"
>> and then the link "Click here for more information"
>
>
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