What? Only up or down? And it's useless more than 30 miles [48km] up.

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Jacob Samorodin — 1/12/2002 5:32:18 PM (archived)

Tom Brosz, Gary, or Ray Calkins would
offer more technical explanations as to why this wouldn't work too well, suffice it to say that the balroc wouldn't exceed Mach-1 at any point in the flight.
Nice idea though for a high flier.

Jacob

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Balloon Rocket - Stars In My Eyes - 1/12/2002 4:56:29 PM
- Re: Balroc = Copyright infringement ? - Success_Machine - 1/15/2002 8:19:37 PM
  - I thought that was a Ballhog. (n/t) (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 1/16/2002 5:20:22 PM
  - That was a Balrog nt (n/t) - SIME - 1/15/2002 7:22:42 PM
    - Re: Yes. Balrog. Uh huh. - Success_Machine - 1/17/2002 1:33:05 PM
- Re: Balloon Rocket - Tom Brosz - 1/12/2002 8:25:28 PM
  - So he's not just doing a Steve Smyth impression? - SIME - 1/12/2002 10:12:49 AM
- What? Only up or down? And it's useless more than 30 miles [48km] up. - Jacob Samorodin - 1/12/2002 5:32:18 PM
  - OK! I realize now the inventor of "Balroc" had a strato-platform in mind. [n/t] (n/t) - Jacob Samorodin - 1/12/2002 8:45:08 PM
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