[aprssig] Fwd: [GPSL] Update on cluster balloon flight

Fri Sep 13 11:00:08 EDT 2013

Use either of the two tracking links provided on his homepage, namely:

http://www.clusterballoon.com/

http://tinyurl.com/TrappeSPOT

http://tinyurl.com/TrappeInReach

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

On 9/13/2013 10:37 AM, Ronald Armstrong wrote:
> do you have is last position where he land in newfoundland
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> Ronald VE2JOR :
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>> Subject: 	[GPSL] Update on cluster balloon flight
>> Date: 	Fri, 13 Sep 2013 08:50:08 -0500
>> From: 	Mark Conner <mconner1 at gmail.com>
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>> http://www.aero-news.net/index.cfm?do=main.textpost&id=0002fadf-4361-499e-99ae-1424fb2c5219
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>> Cluster Balloonist Abandons Attempt To Cross The Atlantic
>> Jonathan Trappe Was Unable To Control The Balloons' Altitude
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>> Jonathan Trappe's dream of floating across the Atlantic Ocean beneath 
>> of cluster of helium balloons has ended in a safe landing, but on the 
>> wrong side of the ocean. Trappe landed his cluster balloon in a 
>> remote area of Newfoundland at approximately 1830 EDT Thursday, 
>> September 12, 2013. Trappe had launched at about 0800 EDT from 
>> Caribou, Maine and had been airborne for only about 12 hours on a 
>> flight that was expected to take 3-6 days.
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>> ANN spoke to Kevin Knapp, a veteran gas pilot, who had the first duty 
>> shift in Trappe's control center following the launch. According to 
>> Knapp, the cluster balloon was never able to achieve a stable float 
>> altitude and developed a severe yo-yo effect --- rapid descents with 
>> the aircraft hitting the surface of the water, followed by rapid 
>> ascents to altitudes as high as 21,000 feet or more. Trappe was 
>> unable to gain a steady hand on the errant balloon cluster, which at 
>> 3,000 cubic meters of volume, was the largest in the world.
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>> Flight service expressed real concern over the inability to control 
>> the aircraft as they watched it repeatedly descend below their radar 
>> and then reappear climbing rapidly. Trappe and his team obviously had 
>> the same concern and with Newfoundland representing 'land's end' 
>> before venturing out over the Atlantic, the decision was made to 
>> terminate the attempt.
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>> Knapp tells ANN that Trappe was able to execute a landing after 
>> darkness had fallen and in low visibility. In fact, he says Trappe is 
>> uncertain if he is on the ground or possibly in trees, but he is down 
>> and safe. Trappe noted on his own Facebook page that he planned to 
>> spend the night in his gondola/lifeboat and had lowered the exposure 
>> cover. Knapp said it was raining in the area and storms were expected 
>> overnight, however the weather trajectories for winds aloft showed 
>> that in a perfect world Trappe could have reached Ireland in 94 hours.
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>> Trappe posted on his Facebook page about 2000 EDT "Landed safe, at an 
>> alternate location. Remote. I put the exposure canopy up on the boat. 
>> Will stay here for the night."
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>> Trappe has already made history as a cluster balloon pilot having 
>> been the first to cross Lake Michigan, the English Channel and the 
>> Alps before making this attempt at the Atlantic.
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>> The first crossing of the Atlantic by balloon was accomplished in 
>> 1976 by the late Ben Abruzzo, Maxie Anderson and Larry Newman in 
>> their helium balloon Double Eagle II -- so named because it was the 
>> second attempt by Anderson and Abruzzo. Bertrand Piccard and Brian 
>> Jones required 3 attempts to get the Breitling Orbiter balloon around 
>> the world for the first time, and the late Steve Fossett was not 
>> successful in his solo balloon circumnavigation until his 6th attempt 
>> in the Bud Light Spirit of Freedom.
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