{"id":263,"date":"2010-11-17T18:53:02","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T18:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=263"},"modified":"2016-11-15T13:58:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:58:26","slug":"well-always-have-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"We\u2019ll always have PARIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post to mention the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-devon-11734084\" target=\"_blank\">successful launch<\/a> of a paper glider into space by a British amaeuter team.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The plane, Vulture 1, was released in near space &ndash; 27,400m up &ndash; from a helium balloon which then exploded (as planned) and parachuted down to Earth, with cameras recording the descent.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye on this project, code named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/science\/paris\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS)<\/a>, which was devised largely by readers and jounralists of the online magazine The Register but also included input from the defence technology firm Qinetiq.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img alt=\"Joe Kittinger drops from a helium balloon at an altitude of 31 kilometres, pictured from above.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/data\/images\/ns\/cms\/dn18427\/dn18427-1_500.jpg\" title=\"Joe Kittinger drops from a helium balloon at an altitude of 31 kilometres, pictured from above.\" width=\"280\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Kittinger drops from a helium balloon at an altitude of 31 kilometres, setting the record for the highest jump (1960, US Air Force Archive)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With price tag of \u00a38,000 the project is another step towards cheap, publicly accesssible space travel.<\/p>\n<p>The plane has a 3ft wingspan, constructed from paper straws covered in paper. A tube of cardboard formed part of the release mechanism and the cameras were kept from freezing with pocket warmers. The website details the entire design process.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps we can look forward to a hang-glider version next. The man to try it out would surely be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn18427-space-diver-to-attempt-first-supersonic-freefall.html\" target=\"_blank\">Felix Baumgartner<\/a> who is hoping to attempt a new world record in space diving later this year.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a quick post to mention the successful launch of a paper glider into space by a British amaeuter team.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}