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Realest rocket ship I've ever seen - even if it does look like a quad 
of VERY large bowling balls.  Note that two are frost covered and two 
aren't, for obvious reasons.

Pretty impressive stuff.
90+ seconds under power and following a preset course / flight plan is 
going to be impressive to see.

If he keeps this up he'll be able to afford to quit his day job :-)


        Russell


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From: "John Carmack"
To: <arocket@exrocketry.net>
Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 6:32 PM
Subject: [AR] Pretty Armadillo flight

We had a nice test tonight.

Side-by-side video from both cameras:
http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2006_08_31/hover35_dual.wmv

Just the one view that looks better:
http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2006_08_31/hover35.mpg

A nice still:
http://media.armadilloaerospace.com/2006_08_31/flight.jpg

You can see that we added the 25kg "payload" as barbell weights right
above our landing shocks.  Might as well move the CG a bit farther
away from the gimbal point...

I think we are going to manually trim out the stable tilt, rather
than adding another low frequency control loop for propellant 
balancing.

We are going to Oklahoma this weekend for a 90+ second run, I'll do a
full update after that.  This engine doesn't have quite enough
performance for the level 2 prize, but we have another injector that
is more than good enough, once we get it to stop melting...

Any updates from Masten?

John Carmack

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> We had a nice test tonight.
> We had a nice test tonight.

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