Re: [RCSE] We should start a new thread to bash

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 08:39:25 -0700


Jeez guys, is this really the kind of experimentation we want be known for?
 
Rense Lange

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From: "Tom H. Nagel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sep 18, 2003 10:56 AM
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Subject: Re: [RCSE] We should start a new thread to bash

 
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Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 3:13 PM
Subject: [RCSE] We should start a new thread to bash

Anybody ever tied a parachute to a small animal then dropped it out of an R/C plane?
 
If so, were the results successful ?
SJG
 
Many moons ago when I was an undergrad at Ohio State and living in the Stadium Scholarship Dorm, one of the guys had a pet python, and kept hamsters to feed it.
 
    We rigged up a parachute and a single serving cereal box to hold the rodent, and prepared to launch the thing off C-Deck, some 93 feet above the west side parking lot.  Now, the prevailing fall winds come from the west, and this was long before I knew anything about sailplanes or slope lift.
 
    We got some old clunky walkie talkies to coordinate the launch.  We were thinking NASA and moon launches.   Those of us on C-Deck were Rodent Launch and the guys in the parking lot were Rodent Control.   
 
    We dumped the hampster and parachute over the side of C-Deck, and slope lift took over.  The chute went up, not down, and began to drift north, across Woody Hayes Drive, gaining altitude.   Rodent Control scurried off in pursuit.   The chute kept gaining altitude, must have caught a thermal, and was last seen heading out over St. John's Arena.  We never did find the chute or the hamsternaut.
 
    OK, it is not a Chuck Anderson story, but it's all I got.
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