A large bit of orangeness floatied its way around the highbay today.
Taking the form of a blimp leftover from Boomerang, Mathew (a summer student) inflated it to test its lifting capacity. Such balloons are used to fly calibration sources so they can be 1km away and still 20° above the horizon.
- First thing to do with the balloon? Play with it!
- Mathew
- Our pull scale is a bit too heavy duty for the test. But it manages to play a role anyway
- Underblimptalk
- For a little while at least, Spider has a new buddy
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