http://www.popularmechanics.com/space/rockets/a16722/hobbyist-rocket-space-race/

->Will

On Tue, Mar 22, 2016 at 11:14 AM, Andrew Greenberg <a...@ece.pdx.edu> wrote:

> Hi everyone!
>
> Well huh. About 4 months ago Chevrolet contacted us saying they'd like
> to feature us in an add campaign called "Unexpected standouts" or
> something like that. We said "great!". So I wrote a bunch of stuff about
> us, mostly answering their questions, sent in a bunch of pictures of the
> team, and then asked to double check the copy of what they were actually
> going to send out. And then we never heard anything back.
>
> Well, just today we found out the there's a giant Art Deco (?) version
> of *me*  in the current Popular Mechanics with a few heavily edited
> quotes. Huh.
>
> The good news: it's great publicity. And some of the quotes aren't bad.
> And it points to our website!
>
> The bad news: they totally screwed up a couple of the facts. Most
> egregiously, they say "... first to push amateur rockets past Mach 1"
> which of course is stupidly wrong. The only claim we've ever made is
> that we might have been the first group to "push WiFi past Mach 1".
> That's a cringe-worthy error. This is why, for the record, you always
> ask to see the final copy on this kind of thing.
>
> I wanted to let you all know because it's good publicity, but please be
> ready for some backlash about their stupid mistake.
>
> See you tonight,
>
> Andrew
>
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