One Mile Test Ribbon Construction complete!!!: "
Today we finished constructing the ribbon for the up coming Balloon Test. As of this point we have our Waivers and Permissions, We have our Ribbon, We have our Anchor, We have or Lifter Robot and Our Ballon should be arriving in days. All super exciting.
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The ribbon consuruction was an adventure in itself. It was a lot of hard work and a lot of tedious details but we got it done. 60 spools of ribbon, 24 cans of aviation orange paint, 3 completely ruined leather gloves, 9 feet of pvc pipe and about 20 hours of walking, cranking, paintig and gluing. But we did it. Fell behind on some days and really cranked it on others but we’re done. If we had it my way it would’ve been done by Wednesday but our ‘Engineer’ felt that we should slow down and finish on Thursday. Just kidding. That was a very good call by Alex, I like working with tha guy, he’s so safe and calculative and organized. Off course many times I wanted to yell out ‘Ariel, take the professor and plug him into the hyperdrive.’ That should teach him to ‘never give me the odds.’(Via LiftPort Staff Blog.)
Also, [geek warning] a mockup of a space elevator control panel.
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