Thames. We launched from near home NW of Newbury, and it went east then hung around Henley before turning back and north a bit.
It had a low power radio transmitter so we could track it. People as far away as Northern Ireland and Holland managed to download the position!
Dave
> Cool pics, so you gotta have a soundtrack...
>
> Name of the river in pic 4?
>
>
> > Well, today was a special day. Since February I've been
> > planning a launch of my own "spacecraft" carried to
> > 100,000 feet by a helium weather balloon, and brought back
> > down by parachute after the balloon bursts. Here are some
> > photos from the video that it took ...
> >
> >
> > src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/368443/Capture_018.JPG"/>
> >
> >
> > src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/368443/Capture_000.JPG"/>
> >
> >
> > src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/368443/Capture_023.JPG"/>
> >
> >
> > src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/368443/Capture_003.JPG"/>
> >
> >
> > src="http://dl.dropbox.com/u/368443/Capture_020.JPG"/>
> >
> > "I could laugh oh but you could cry
> > And I never knew just how high
> > I was flying
> > Oh, with you right above me"
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