Regarding the discussion about Remote-controlled Meteorite-Recovery over sand dunes - again, the technology exists, but the cost is still keeping it impractical.
But there's a bigger problem. Here in SoCal the more promising sand dunes are those that are Off-Limits to off-road vehicle traffic. When you add the criteria that you can't drive to the spot where you remotely observed the prospective target - that you have to "drop-down or land" to inspect the target - the remote-controlled aircraft are less-favored over a craft that can be controlled BY A PILOT to float-descend-ascend and move on to the next target. Now, in this latter case the technology DOESN'T exist, presently. But when it does, THEN that will get my attention. Here is what we have available presently - a one-man, STEERABLE (by fan) hot air balloon: http://cameronballoons.com/1998/airships_98.htm http://cameronballoons.com/1998/hopper_98.htm http://cameronballoons.com/1998/index_98.htm And here are some web sites for RC balloons & blimps: http://www.floatograph.com/ http://www.floatograph.com/sale/1.htm http://www.blimpcam.com/rchotairballoon/ http://www.blimpcam.com/blimphawk/ http://www.myairship.com/index.html http://www.myairship.com/rcblimp/index.html Add to those price tags the cost of the remote sensing equipment, and you truly have a "rich-man's hobby toy"! ;-) Bob V. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Greetings - send holiday greetings for Easter, Passover http://greetings.yahoo.com/ ______________________________________________ Meteorite-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
