{"id":767,"date":"2007-10-13T02:43:04","date_gmt":"2007-10-13T07:43:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=767"},"modified":"2007-10-13T02:43:04","modified_gmt":"2007-10-13T07:43:04","slug":"videos-from-the-kansas-city-space-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=767","title":{"rendered":"Videos from the Kansas City Space Pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"119\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceelevatorblog.com\/images\/tn_SpacePiratesNewLogo.jpg\"  height=\"84\" style=\"width: 119px; height: 84px\" \/><a href=\"\/media\/KCSpacePiratesQualifyingRun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" width=\"200\" src=\"\/media\/tn_KCSpacePiratesQualifyingRun.jpg\" height=\"153\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 153px\" \/><\/a>Brian sent me links to these videos a couple of days ago &#8211; just getting around to posting them now.\u00a0 The first video shows things now going so well.\u00a0 However, the second video is his qualifying run. They&#8217;ve certainly changed their design from last year.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s model more resembles the &#8220;kites&#8221; that several teams had last year (UBC-Snowstar and TurboCrawler, among others).\u00a0 We&#8217;ll see how it handles in the winds of Utah&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.mac.com\/brianandcindy\/100005\">Testing going badly<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.mac.com\/brianandcindy#100008\">Qualifying<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The picture is a screen shot I took off of the Qualifying video.\u00a0 Click on it for a larger version.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Brian points out <a href=\"http:\/\/kcspacepirates.com\/content\/view\/70\/37\/\">an article he wrote on Heliobeaming<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0 There are enough formulas in the article to satisfy most hard-core geeks \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian sent me links to these videos a couple of days ago &#8211; just getting around to posting them now.\u00a0 The first video shows things now going so well.\u00a0 However, the second video is his qualifying run. They&#8217;ve certainly changed their design from last year.\u00a0 This year&#8217;s model more resembles the &#8220;kites&#8221; that several teams [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements","category-spaceelevatorcompetitions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}