The MIT guys get it

[Bob Chilcoat]

In the long tradition of putting "stuff" on top of the dome at MIT, how
about this one for the Centenial of Flight:
http://home.comcast.net/~jwisnia18/MIT_Gloat.jpg

--
Bob (Chief Pilot, White Knuckle Airways)

[EDR]

I wish they had taken it with a telephoto lens for a closer shot.

[Marco Leon]

your wish has been granted:

www.mit.edu


"EDR" > wrote in message
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> I wish they had taken it with a telephoto lens for a closer shot.



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[EDR]

> "EDR" > wrote in message
> ...
> > I wish they had taken it with a telephoto lens for a closer shot.

In article >, Marco Leon wrote:
> your wish has been granted:
> www.mit.edu

Thanks!
I see it conforms to the high engineering standards I would expect from
such time constraints.

[Brian Burger]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, EDR wrote:

>
> I wish they had taken it with a telephoto lens for a closer shot.

This article has a slightly closer shot:
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2711083/detail.html

http://news.google.com is great; I just googled "MIT prank" & got several
links...

Brian.

[Larry Dighera]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:21:27 -0800, Brian Burger
> wrote in Message-Id:
. ca>:

>This article has a slightly closer shot:
>http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2711083/detail.html

Yes. Very slightly, and it tries to install Avenue A and MediaPlex
spy programs along with 2 or 3 pop-up ads. :-(

[hlongworth]

Bob,
Don't forget that there are gals at MIT too ;-)
Here is the link to more pictures of this year's hack
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2003/wright_flyer/
If you have the time check out the hack gallery. There are several
books and articles on MIT hacks and pranks.

[Brian Burger]

On Fri, 19 Dec 2003, Larry Dighera wrote:

> On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:21:27 -0800, Brian Burger
> > wrote in Message-Id:
> . ca>:
>
> >This article has a slightly closer shot:
> >http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/2711083/detail.html
>
> Yes. Very slightly, and it tries to install Avenue A and MediaPlex
> spy programs along with 2 or 3 pop-up ads. :-(

Wow, the things you miss when you avoid IE & have a firewall...

Sorry about that; the official MIT page that someone else posted has much
better photos anyway!

Brian.

[Snowbird]

EDR > wrote in message >...
> Thanks!

I love it! Great hack -- one of the best! And a good gesture
from MIT admin to leave it all day. Gotta love the attention to
detail (the pilot figure and the FAA airworthiness certificate,
anachronism not withstanding)

Here's another link with more pics:
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2003/wright_flyer/additional_information.html

> I see it conforms to the high engineering standards I would expect from
> such time constraints.

It's not just the time. The engineering is probably pretty solid --
but its goal was to produce something which could be transported
through relatively inaccessable confined spaces in a minimal time,
set up readily by a minimal crew working in a small space at heights,
and readily secured from falling off said small space in strong
winds. Not something engineered to fly or to resemble the Wright
Bros construction.

You'd never know it from the quantity and complexity of the stuff
which gets perched up there, but the Institute does not make the
top of the Great Dome easy to access. The perpetrators didn't just
haul it up a freight elevator and push it out a hatch.

Great hack.
Sydney