Ok. Does anyone know anything about this and any more of the contest details?
To make a long story short I'm kicking back at a local watering hole that has social distancing and is open, it's a desert hole in the wall bar that has its fair share of pilots, military guys/girls and lots of amateur rocket enthusiasts and a L3 guy was talking about it.
Supposedly, Aerotech is gonna announce a standing contest with no expiration until someone wins called "million dollar million foot challenge" for the first person (not a team, no teams allowed only individuals) to make a million feet AGL and do it solely on commercial Aerotech motors. I simply listened to him talking about and didn't ask any questions because I don't know the guy that well and I didn't want to interrupt the conversation he was having because he was trying to pick up this fly girl hottie.
I was on my way out anyways and when I passed him by I simply said something along the lines of.
"Can't be done but that's great marketing... Aerotech will make ten million bucks off people buying their motors trying to hit a million feet!"
To which he replied.
"No. It's possible. With staging it's possible." And then he went back to talking to the girl he was trying to pick up. So what's the deal with this contest guys? From how he was talking sounds like they are gonna announce end of summer.
Does anyone know all the rules for this or when they will announce? There are some industry insiders on these boards and somebody must know something.
What's the dealio?
To make a long story short I'm kicking back at a local watering hole that has social distancing and is open, it's a desert hole in the wall bar that has its fair share of pilots, military guys/girls and lots of amateur rocket enthusiasts and a L3 guy was talking about it.
Supposedly, Aerotech is gonna announce a standing contest with no expiration until someone wins called "million dollar million foot challenge" for the first person (not a team, no teams allowed only individuals) to make a million feet AGL and do it solely on commercial Aerotech motors. I simply listened to him talking about and didn't ask any questions because I don't know the guy that well and I didn't want to interrupt the conversation he was having because he was trying to pick up this fly girl hottie.
I was on my way out anyways and when I passed him by I simply said something along the lines of.
"Can't be done but that's great marketing... Aerotech will make ten million bucks off people buying their motors trying to hit a million feet!"
To which he replied.
"No. It's possible. With staging it's possible." And then he went back to talking to the girl he was trying to pick up. So what's the deal with this contest guys? From how he was talking sounds like they are gonna announce end of summer.
Does anyone know all the rules for this or when they will announce? There are some industry insiders on these boards and somebody must know something.
What's the dealio?
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