Re: Homebuilt hot-air air****ps

john smith <jsmith@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> As with most homebuilt advertising, look to see it the article has 
> actually flown.

I know it hasn't flown untethered yet. The inventor had taken some effort 
to avoid people getting the wrong idea about the pace of progress. He went

to the trouble of using HTML metatags so as to have his web site excluded 
from search engine results. I only found his web site rather obliquely. I 
only mention his site now because it appears he has finally removed those 
metatags and is making a presentation at Oshkosh.

> From the photos on the above website, this one hasn't. What does that 
> tell you?

Nothing I didn't already know. Dan Nachbar has already stated that the
pace 
of progress is much slower than expected.

> The one photo of "tethered" lift is taken at night. Again, one must
> ask the question, why?

Eh? The caption to that picture seems to explain things rather clearly:

"October 28, 2005 -- Here's a shot of your intrepid adventurers piled into

the cabin and making a first tethered flight. The winds died very late
that 
day, so this picture was taken in near darkness. So while the photo
quality 
isn't very good, the moment it captures was quite momentus. It took nearly

4 years of work to get off the ground this first time."