[chbot] Can you hear me Major Tom?

[Chris Hellyar]

That makes more sense...

The article reads like they're bleeding the edge somewhere.

Still, be very cool to be involved in something like that, research or 
course related.  I think I've missed my run on that sort of thing now 
really, mortgages, kids, job, career, blah blah blah.

On 12/04/12 18:57, Paul Davey wrote:
> They are doing this for a controls course.
>
>> On 12/04/12 18:37, Chris Hellyar wrote:
>>> Evening, I read that one, and thought it was odd.
>>>
>>> (Disclaimer: I'm not suggesting they're not smart fellas, as they clearly
>>> are.)
>>>
>>> I thought the article must have missed some detail as I'm having trouble
>>> imagining that there's anything new or novel about stabilising a rocket in
>>> transonic flight is there?
>>>
>>> There must be some twist that the journo missed in the duming down for the
>>> masses process when they wrote that article me thinks.
>>>
>>> Having said that, I really, really like their toy having thought about
>>> doing a rapid ascent platform a few times but never got past the thinking
>>> part.  :-)
>>>
>>> Cheers, Chris H.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/04/12 11:46, kerry at manukadesign.co.nz wrote:
>>>> "Canterbury University students are preparing to launch a rocket into the
>>>> skies above Banks Peninsula.
>>>>
>>>> The 2.3-metre-long, student-built rocket will travel faster than the
>>>> speed of sound, reaching 2200kmh to get up to 10 kilometres into the
>>>> atmosphere.
>>>>
>>>> It will enable students to collect data to help them develop a real-time,
>>>> self-correcting control system."
>>>>
>>>> http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/6727216/This-time-it-is-rocket-science
>>>>
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