It has to be entertaining I guess. They sure spend a lot of time
talking about what a piece of crap the plastic little Cherokee is.
They don't seem to have much respect for it.

They did a pretty poor job with the Arm Chair Larry one too. First,
they spent days trying to figure out who they should ask before they
took to the air. They called the police, the fire department, etc.
Never once did it occur to them that the FAA might be interested in
people flying over the city. I'm pretty sure that their homebuilt
probably should have needed an airworthyness cert and the "pilot" be
rated for that type of ballon. By contrast when "Monster Garage" built
a ballon they had an FAA guy there on the set inspecting the ballon
and the star of the show went up along with an FAA rated pilot.

It looked they they did a tethered launch to about 100 feet up. I'm
not sure that proved much. I would think that would fit the
"navigatable airspace" rule though. In anycase, these guys aren't the
sharpest knives in the drawer.

-Robert


"Hilton" wrote in message link.net...
Hi,

You gotta watch MythBusters on the Discovery Channel. The shoot birds and
pumpkins at this Checkee's windows.

http://www.ntsb.gov/ntsb/brief.asp?e...05X00344&key=1

Moral of the story: Do not fly into chickens, whether or not they are
frozen.

Hilton