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Billfred
23-09-2009, 21:58
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XXShadowXX
23-09-2009, 22:00
I could say something about the seating, but really, you had an SR71 within 20 yards of the field... wish I could have been there.
OZ_341
23-09-2009, 22:00
Awesome venue! I would love to see an SR-71 Blackbird up close. I believe that plane still holds the air speed record.

Nice job!
BrendanB
23-09-2009, 22:09
OH MY GOSH!!!!!

That is so cool/awesome/jaw dropping/i so want to go next year factor!!!!:yikes:

man that looks like fun. I now have a new desktop background!
Akash Rastogi
23-09-2009, 22:22
Psh yea but did any of them transform?:yikes:


Very cool venue. Congrats on a great competition (from what I heard from 1771.)
Eugene Fang
23-09-2009, 23:36
Psh yea but did any of them transform?:yikes:


Well, not unless anybody there had a broken piece of the AllSpark...
Chris is me
23-09-2009, 23:49
Wow, what an amazing venue. One of the reasons I liked regolith was the way it made photos like this nice and bright.

Well, MY off season event, I was too distracted to pay attention to the venue. IRI does that :P
NickE
23-09-2009, 23:51
Does anybody know if that field border is custom or borrowed from FIRST?
If it's borrowed, could this be the new field design (http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-may-need-more-fields.html) mentioned back in July?
EricH
24-09-2009, 01:10
Does anybody know if that field border is custom or borrowed from FIRST?
If it's borrowed, could this be the new field design (http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-may-need-more-fields.html) mentioned back in July?
Looks like the AM design (AKA custom); it certainly isn't the design used since 1999 or whenever the last revision was, which has no diagonals.
Cory
24-09-2009, 02:35
Looks like the AM design (AKA custom); it certainly isn't the design used since 1999 or whenever the last revision was, which has no diagonals.

The Andymark field is wooden, and so far as I can remember in the few times I've seen it, looks nothing like this.
Bomberofdoom
24-09-2009, 06:36
:eek: ..... :eek:


I WANT TO BE THERE!!!!!!! :yikes:

That place looks freaking awesome!!!! What can be more awesome than a combination of an FRC event and an Air Force museum with all these awesome aircrafts!?!?! :D


I envy all of the participants. :mad:
Billfred
24-09-2009, 07:11
Does anybody know if that field border is custom or borrowed from FIRST?
If it's borrowed, could this be the new field design (http://frcdirector.blogspot.com/2009/07/we-may-need-more-fields.html) mentioned back in July?

I believe that GeorgiaFIRST built this one a few years ago before anyone had released drawings to roll their own. (I believe this is the same border I saw as the Peachtree practice field when I went in 2006.)
Andrew Schreiber
25-09-2009, 13:39
On one hand I like seating, on the other... SR-71 within spitting distance of the field... Eh, I spend most competitions standing anyway.

WICKED COOL!
Chief Samwize
25-09-2009, 16:13
Awesome venue! A great way to promote the FRC program as well. Did the museum make you guys like an attraction (i.e. promoted/advertised the event)?

-Sam
Jeff Pahl
27-09-2009, 22:32
I believe that GeorgiaFIRST built this one a few years ago before anyone had released drawings to roll their own. (I believe this is the same border I saw as the Peachtree practice field when I went in 2006.)

That field border belongs to GeorgiaFIRST. It's used for their pre-ship scrimmage event and as the practice field at Peachtree. If my memory serves, it was built for the 2004 season.
JesseK
28-09-2009, 16:12
I ran across an article today while reading about the new hydrogen-powered land speed record.

The SR-71 has been in a distant 2nd (http://www.physorg.com/news4630.html) since NASA broke the record with their X-43A. Of course, there are major differences, such as a 10-second flight vs. a several-hour flight, but those are minor details so some. These days since we're all about energy efficiency, I don't see why we just aim for a nice round 1039.1876 mph (http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%282*%286378.1370%2B10%29*PI+%2F+24%29+km%2Fh) at an altitude of 10km (~33,000 ft). That way a passenger plane that took off during daylight and headed east could maintain the use of solar energy no matter how far it had to fly...

Sounds like another good X-challenge to me.
Eugene Fang
28-09-2009, 17:36
)That way a passenger plane that took off during daylight and headed east could maintain the use of solar energy no matter how far it had to fly...

Sounds like another good X-challenge to me.

Do you mean west?
JesseK
29-09-2009, 09:25
Ah, yes ... west. Whoops!
EricH
29-09-2009, 09:26
I'd have to say that the SR-71 still holds the record for manned, reusable flight... And possibly the speed-to-size ratio.