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Fourth Launch : Field Photos
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| August 24, 2002
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| The baby almost ready for flight. |
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Checking that the knots are secure. That's my younger brother Mike on
the left, who works as a remote communities satellite networking guy,
and Owen, a recently minted civil engineer, on the right. Not in the
photo, in fact probably behind the camera, are Karen and Julian. |
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We couldn't have asked for a better day.
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A typical, riveting ground shot. It flew so well, we had little to do.
Sadly, there are no photos of us inflating whatever was at hand
with helium, an hour and a half into the return flight. Various items of
latex...
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Squashing the Squash. A little off target, but not bad.
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