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mathew "@Ag8n Yes, the Jalbert Kytoons! I covered them and a few other historical kite balloons here: https://www.headfullofair.com/post/what-is-a-kite-bal..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
mathew "As a system, the balloon and kite parts are definitely lifting more than dragging-- Airpup climbs to higher angles as the wind goes from 3 to12mph ..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
mathew "I should clarify that air adds mass not weight-- but a massive balloon is sluggish. " | Read more » over 5 years ago
mathew "@cfastie Yes, Airpup's lift increases with the wind. I didn't measure the pull in 20mph winds, but I can say that it was at the limit of my ability..." | Read more » over 5 years ago
mathew "Real cool Chris! Glad to see these advancing. I love the new adjustable-mount position tray. " | Read more » over 6 years ago
mathew "trashcan rig in action: https://publiclab.org/notes/micheletobias/6-19-2012/trash-can-rig-action " | Read more » about 7 years ago
mathew "Ok, I changed the sharing settings. how about now? here is the project gallery link; https://recap.autodesk.com/gallery/project/616/japanese-americ..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "I made a 3D file from those images: https://recap360.autodesk.com/fireflyviewer/77a3022e96ca4a818ce8ef862aa65b35 I wasn't able to process the whol..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
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mathew "Here's the same full size with the levels adjusted: " | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew " This is 37% of the original panorama: https://www.flickr.com/photos/136076606@N02/28323968824/in/dateposted-public/ " | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "Further panoramas from more recent flights " | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "While we were hacking away on this, I tried two landscape mounts for the camera. Adding a small ball head to the top was pretty successful: T..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "One precaution to prevent crushing the pole is to attach only to the double-thick area at the top of the tube. Right where the pole sections stack,..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "@Ranon and I went out flying last night, and with the gusty conditions had trouble getting the panorama more than a few feet off the ground-- our 9..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "Glenn Davison has answered many of these questions in the AKA guide to kite flying. I can't believe I'd never seen it before. A+ excellent: http:..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "Of these options, the rubber band holds the firmest-- simplest and cheapest, though rather ugly looking. @cfastie's points about pins are good one..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "posted: https://publiclab.org/notes/mathew/07-08-2016/notes-on-assembling-an-aerobee-rig " | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "@Ecta64 How do you feel about the Kite Anemometer section and lift calculations? I really think a lookup chart of "I have X grams of stuff I need..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "That's a good point, Chris, and I like that you start at the camera. Beyond framing kite photography, I think it's worth integrating several of th..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "I can't wait to get mine flying. I assembled it a few weeks ago and really love the design too. Chris, I have some notes on the assembly instruct..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "Your suggestion is to continuously pan, and then increment the tilt? That is sensible. One reason why we were doing a separate pan and tilt mechan..." | Read more » over 7 years ago
mathew "Here's Simon Harbord's video of his version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUnMAbXOgCo " | Read more » almost 8 years ago
mathew "The original Rig design is by Simon Harbord, Simon_H on the KAP Forums http://arch.ced.berkeley.edu/kap/discuss/index.php?p=/profile/7/Simon%20H T..." | Read more » almost 8 years ago