[LeArc] Fwd: [Balloon_Sked] UTARC Spirit of Knoxville II launch Jan 2/3

[Mark A Garrett]

Below is the Spirit of Knoxville II launch announcement sent out this evening. We plan to launch on Wednesday night at 9PM Eastern (0200 GMT 1/3) and our path prediction looks to follow UX-19 going off the coast of NC/SC area before making a turn north towards Europe some time after crossing the coast into open ocean. 

Please feel free to pass this info on to any groups interested. 

Greg 

Greetings, 

Happy New Year to one and all. UTARC is pleased to announce its first 
trans-Atlantic balloon attempt, the Spirit of Knoxville II. It is our 
intention to launch from Knoxville Downtown Island Airport at 02:00 UTC 
January 3 (9:00 PM EST January 2 ). Local visitors are welcome to come 
to the launch. Here is a Google map of the launch location: 

http://maps. google.com/ maps?sll= 35.962984, -83.87171 

We also invite everyone to follow along with our new, enhanced live 
tracking system at: 

http://www.spiritof knoxville. com/ 

Also, we are pleased to announce our new alert system, which allows you 
to sign up for email alerts when various flight conditions are met. 
Visit this site for more information: 

http://alerts. spiritofknoxvill e.com/ 

DTRC users, we need your help! The DTRC status page 
( http://dtrc. utarc.org/ status.php ) will be updated soon with more 
detailed information. Your help is vital to our success. If you have 
any questions, just email us. 

Thanks again, and Happy New Year! 

The UTARC Team 
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