Droceretik
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Hello Rocketeers,
Bob Moore here. Got a message from this forum that long time no hear from me and what have I been up to? Well, in September 2014 my team broke the World altitude record for a single kite with a flight to 16,009 feet above ground level. This has now been certified by Guinness World Records, The Australian Book Of Records, the American Kitefliers Association and the Australian Kitefliers Society. This was the culmination of 10 years of intermittent attempts under the conditions provided by CASA.
After a break of 2 years we will be heading back to Cable Downs, a 50,000 acre sheep station northwest of Cobar in Western NSW. We may attempt to up the record to 20,000 ft plus and/or trial a train of smaller 4 kites to 20,000 ft in preparation for an attempt on the outright record for a train of kites to 40,000 ft. In the mean time I am building and testing various DT delta kites on local fields to trial different enhancements to the design to improve lift, durability and increasing the upper wind range.
The cross over interest between my kite flying and rocketry is GPS telemetry, data logging and to a lesser extent batteries. I have had some dialogue with the PICO balloonists that track Mylar party balloons around the world. There tracking tech is interesting and for me the batteries are my interest. Their balloons are flying around the 9,000 metre mark.
https://picospace.net/?p=1050
https://www.kitesite.com.au/kiterecord/september_2014.html
[video=youtube;IG_Y9ESbS4c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG_Y9ESbS4c[/video]
Bob
Bob Moore here. Got a message from this forum that long time no hear from me and what have I been up to? Well, in September 2014 my team broke the World altitude record for a single kite with a flight to 16,009 feet above ground level. This has now been certified by Guinness World Records, The Australian Book Of Records, the American Kitefliers Association and the Australian Kitefliers Society. This was the culmination of 10 years of intermittent attempts under the conditions provided by CASA.
After a break of 2 years we will be heading back to Cable Downs, a 50,000 acre sheep station northwest of Cobar in Western NSW. We may attempt to up the record to 20,000 ft plus and/or trial a train of smaller 4 kites to 20,000 ft in preparation for an attempt on the outright record for a train of kites to 40,000 ft. In the mean time I am building and testing various DT delta kites on local fields to trial different enhancements to the design to improve lift, durability and increasing the upper wind range.
The cross over interest between my kite flying and rocketry is GPS telemetry, data logging and to a lesser extent batteries. I have had some dialogue with the PICO balloonists that track Mylar party balloons around the world. There tracking tech is interesting and for me the batteries are my interest. Their balloons are flying around the 9,000 metre mark.
https://picospace.net/?p=1050
https://www.kitesite.com.au/kiterecord/september_2014.html
[video=youtube;IG_Y9ESbS4c]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG_Y9ESbS4c[/video]
Bob