It was not too long ago when taken images from Space were thought to be the specialty of expert astronauts. Lately however, unpaid space fan have become confidant enough to do the same, using clever house gadgets, like Teddy Bears and now, a paper airplane!
Though it was made completely out of stiff paper and straws, the scavenger 1 was not a “plain vanilla fold-up paper plane”, but a rather difficult design, complete with framework, fuselage and even a toy plastic pilot. Attached to the airplane was a Styrofoam payload box that contained a video, a miniature camera, a GPS tracking unit, a back-up beacon transmitter and, a release mechanism.
The idea of three British Space buffs, the Project Paris (Paper Aircraft released into Space) airplane was launched from a field outside Madrid, Spain on October 28th, and transported up to just over 89,000 feet, by a helium balloon. At this point, thanks to the low-pressure environment, the balloon burst and the airplane and its goods fell down slowly to Pelayos Dam, about 40 miles away from the original launch site. Along the way, the tiny airplane took some incredible pictures of the view.
The three men were happy to find the airplane and its pilot intact and quite pleased to see the quality of images it captured, during its short, 90-minute time to Space.
Posted by Meera Dolasia on 11/14/2010
Site: Dogo News
Site: Dogo News
Here is a video if you like to watch it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K76Cfbq_5hY&feature=player_embedded
Great job, and cool pictures! :)
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