2009 04 21 Methane hover tug o war test

... "Now that the Engine is working properly, we have begun doing some of the preliminary testing for boost and return flights here at our home base under the new amateur rules. We wanted to get a feel for how the vehicle would react to sudden changes in wind speeds as it moved upward. The only thing we could think of to induce a similar force was to attach a really long cable to one of the legs and have someone pull on it during a hover." ...
Uploading here b/c it's hilarious and I want to be able to embed it...

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• sapce