Wired Magazine's Chris Anderson University Team Blimp Presentation 2010 Championship

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Re: Wired Magazine's Chris Anderson University Team Blimp Presentation 2010 Champions

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Originally Posted by Mark McLeod

...and then there's that inversion layer in the Georgia Dome about halfway up that can take an unwary bimp right to the roof...

Every year it seems that someone manages to crash the RPI blimps into the lighting truss over the playing field in Manchester... One year they got it really tangled up and security put an end to blimp flying for a while.

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