[South Florida DX Association] Spirit of Knoxville to fly again

Pete Rimmel - Marine Chemist - N8PR n8pr at bellsouth.net
Sun Mar 9 15:06:17 EST 2008


Hello,
      This message is sent to you because you have signed up for  
email notices from the Spirit of Knoxville trans-atlantic balloon  
team.  Spirit of Knoxville IV (SNOX IV) launch date has been set.   
This flight is designed to stay aloft for more than 24 hours,  
inserted into the current jet stream at normal flight altitudes of  
30,000 to 40,000 ft.   This will take the balloon into Europe over  
the UK and France if all goes well around 40 hours into the flight.

Launch Time:  0300 UTC March 11  (10 PM EDT March 10)
Track the mission live at: http://www.spiritofknoxville.com  (the  
Live status page will only become active at launch)
Keep an eye on the latest progress from the launch team on the front  
page of spiritofknoxville.com or by using twitter to follow twitter  
user "spiritofknox".


Radio listeners: Flight radio details will be available on the DTRC  
status page which opens when you run the current version of DTRC.   
Download DTRC from http://dtrc.utarc.org

Thanks,
Spirit of Knoxville Crew
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