Amy Gibas shows her camera/GPS platform

Flight of the Gibas II


Amy Gibas is cool.
An Ohio University art graduate student, she decided to make part of her thesis project a film made from a balloon floating free from a hill in Athens, Ohio. The first flight carried the payload into Pennsylvania.
This flight, launched into clouds on a cold and windy day with sporadic snow in early April, took it 150 miles to the West Virginia-Virginia border.
There will be more…  (read more)

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Amy Gibas shows her camera/GPS platform

The orange thing in her right hand is the parachute.

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It will be filled with helium

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The hose is connected

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Inflation begins

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Starting to resemble a balloon

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Getting bigger

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At altitude it will be 20 feet in diameter

She is using a scale here to measure its lift.

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Ready for release

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Off it goes

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