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Tuesday, November 16, 2010

Current event 1! Paper Airplane goes to space. http://www.dogonews.com/

The Paper airplane was made by three scientists in Madrid, Spain of October 28th. At first you think it's an ordinary plane that kids make at school and throw them around, that would be awesome but no. It is a guinness plane made of stiff holding paper (maybe paper mache) and straw. On the plane there was a camera to capture images, a small play mobile person and a GPS, and to get all technical a back-up beacon transmitter and a release mechanism. This amazing guinness plane was called '' The Vulture 1''.

 The launch of '' The Vulture 1'' was in Madrid, Spain on October 28th just outside Madrid on a field. The plane then was attached to a balloon and lifted into the air by the helium, later when the balloon had reached 89,000 feet thanks to the low-pressure enviroment the balloon popped and sent the plane gliding down calmly. It hit ground next to Pelayos, Dam amazingly it was 40 miles away from where it was launched, thanks to the camera it got amazing pictures on its way down and up. Luckyly the plane was found intact and got good quality pictures during it soft ride from space which took about 90 minutes.

1 comment:

  1. You did great sofia nice job!!!!!! Bravo bravo, you should get a 10/10!

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