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I'm sure some of you remember the pics I posted of Away 38 over the summer. Well, about a month or so ago we flew another one, and this one made it to MSNBC.

Saw the commercial and immediately thought of you guys... great job!

this is a great verification of this:
only that you used a better camera, a more expensive and more handsome chair and the sound was speeded up.

science works, yay

interesting comments your article is getting on MSNBC

Very cool. Great job!

Airships have some amazing potential:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/science ... 42974.html

Somewhere I read how the military at one time was prototyping very large airships to haul tanks and other large size exuipment. Think the plans got shelved.

Floyd wrote:this is a great verification of this:
only that you used a better camera, a more expensive and more handsome chair and the sound was speeded up.

science works, yay

Actually yes it was. Toshiba wanted Simon to do the commercial originally, but as you could see the transmitted video was too poor quality for a TV commercial, and it seems that's all he could offer them. The radio sounds were actually taken from Simon's vehicle as ours did not beep like that.

The chair we used was custom built out of balsa wood (which is why it broke when it hit the craft right after balloon burst), and the cameras were actually supplied by Toshiba. The cameras used were the most hi-def cameras out there right now (not even released to the market yet), capable of filling up a 32GB memory card in about 90 min. And yes, you read that right- a 32 gigabyte memory card in about 90 minutes.

AceCombat wrote:interesting comments your article is getting on MSNBC

Some ppl have the IQ of a rock, and some are just a--holes.

Well I got about a half second of face time in their \"making of\" video. That's me at 2:15 in the white long sleeve shirt by the jp logo on the van. Also, at 1:55 is John Powell (aka JP).

EngDrewman wrote:

AceCombat wrote:interesting comments your article is getting on MSNBC

Some ppl have the IQ of a rock, and some are just a--holes.

i cant tell

EngDrewman wrote:Actually yes it was. Toshiba wanted Simon to do the commercial originally, but as you could see the transmitted video was too poor quality for a TV commercial, and it seems that's all he could offer them.

... and the cameras were actually supplied by Toshiba.

i don't understand. if toshiba supplied the cameras, how could Simon not offer a better image?!

Floyd wrote:

EngDrewman wrote:Actually yes it was. Toshiba wanted Simon to do the commercial originally, but as you could see the transmitted video was too poor quality for a TV commercial, and it seems that's all he could offer them.

... and the cameras were actually supplied by Toshiba.

i don't understand. if toshiba supplied the cameras, how could Simon not offer a better image?!

Simon was using transmitted video; our craft recorded it onto onboard memory cards that were recovered after the flight. I think the reason Simon was using transmitted video is that he did not recover his craft. Also, our cameras were supplied by Toshiba, but I don't know if that was true for Simon as well.

i mean that if toshiba would have engaged him, he could have used their camera with a memory card on board.