I use the same fuel - liquid oxygen and hydrocarbons.
Worth watching - and listen carefully for key words like 'telemetry' and the way the commentator reports the ascent and all the schhhh....peep..peep.... etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNryrsT7OI
Wednesday 5 August 2009
Telemetry 9: 313km down range, altitude 8350m....
Aliens!!
Came across a group of these mole crickets when I stopped for a rest. I don't think I have seen them in the UK before. Handsome chap - reminds me of a Yamaha Vmax for some reason - can't think why.
Came across a group of these mole crickets when I stopped for a rest. I don't think I have seen them in the UK before. Handsome chap - reminds me of a Yamaha Vmax for some reason - can't think why.
Monday 3 August 2009
Telemetry 8: 286km down range, 7410m altitude.....
As it was Sunday I decided to float around on Dartmoor - starting from Chagford and passing through Widecombe, Bovey Tracey, Lustleigh, Moretonhampstead and back to Chagford.
This is looking back over Widecombe after the climb up to Pudsham Down. It is a very pretty village but I was pushed for time as I was cooking lunch and didn't take a photo.
Lustleigh is also very pretty and sits in a sheltered spot. It's the telegraph poles that have got it wrong and not me.
Again, I didn't really have the time to do it justice and will just have to do this trip again. Here's a view in the centre of the village and sits at the end of the little track that I used.
The hill out of Lustleigh up onto the ridge is steep, long, painful, and excellent fun. Then it's uphill all the way to Moretonhampstead before the final clatter back to Chagford.
This is looking back over Widecombe after the climb up to Pudsham Down. It is a very pretty village but I was pushed for time as I was cooking lunch and didn't take a photo.
Lustleigh is also very pretty and sits in a sheltered spot. It's the telegraph poles that have got it wrong and not me.
Again, I didn't really have the time to do it justice and will just have to do this trip again. Here's a view in the centre of the village and sits at the end of the little track that I used.
The hill out of Lustleigh up onto the ridge is steep, long, painful, and excellent fun. Then it's uphill all the way to Moretonhampstead before the final clatter back to Chagford.
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