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091614: Ft. Huachuca - U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Air and Marine Office Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS).
Photographer: Donna Burton
Xtremliner tether car built by Marshall Ziegert of California.
is one of the best know tether car racers and builder in the hobby and holds many tether car
records. His work is remarkable! This car is powered by a K&B .45. Some of the features of t
racer are: special machined racing wheel/tires, polished cast aluminum body, machined fuel
fuel shut-off mechanism, shock absorbed front end, special motor mount with axle bearings
rechargeable nicad battery with holder, and stainless steel tail skid & tether arm. Care measu
long, 5" wide. Absolutely outstanding racer.
Xtremliner tether car built by Marshall Ziegert of California.
is one of the best know tether car racers and builder in the hobby and holds many tether car
records. His work is remarkable! This car is powered by a K&B .45. Some of the features of t
racer are: special machined racing wheel/tires, polished cast aluminum body, machined fuel
fuel shut-off mechanism, shock absorbed front end, special motor mount with axle bearings
rechargeable nicad battery with holder, and stainless steel tail skid & tether arm. Care measu
long, 5" wide. Absolutely outstanding racer.
Xtremliner tether car built by Marshall Ziegert of California.
is one of the best know tether car racers and builder in the hobby and holds many tether car
records. His work is remarkable! This car is powered by a K&B .45. Some of the features of t
racer are: special machined racing wheel/tires, polished cast aluminum body, machined fuel
fuel shut-off mechanism, shock absorbed front end, special motor mount with axle bearings
rechargeable nicad battery with holder, and stainless steel tail skid & tether arm. Care measu
long, 5" wide. Absolutely outstanding racer.
Xtremliner tether car built by Marshall Ziegert of California.
is one of the best know tether car racers and builder in the hobby and holds many tether car
records. His work is remarkable! This car is powered by a K&B .45. Some of the features of t
racer are: special machined racing wheel/tires, polished cast aluminum body, machined fuel
fuel shut-off mechanism, shock absorbed front end, special motor mount with axle bearings
rechargeable nicad battery with holder, and stainless steel tail skid & tether arm. Care measu
long, 5" wide. Absolutely outstanding racer.
The balloon originally went down in a location we couldn't get to with the van. They had to tether it to the back of the truck, and then tow it where we could get to it easily.
Xtremliner tether car built by Marshall Ziegert of California.
is one of the best know tether car racers and builder in the hobby and holds many tether car
records. His work is remarkable! This car is powered by a K&B .45. Some of the features of t
racer are: special machined racing wheel/tires, polished cast aluminum body, machined fuel
fuel shut-off mechanism, shock absorbed front end, special motor mount with axle bearings
rechargeable nicad battery with holder, and stainless steel tail skid & tether arm. Care measu
long, 5" wide. Absolutely outstanding racer.
Project Morpheus Tether Test 8. Photo Date: March 13, 2012. Location: Building 18 - Antenna Range. Photographer: Lauren Harnett.
There are many aspects to creating a successful piece of work. It's not just the image, it's the text, the layout, the order, it all adds up to making something explode or fizzle. This is my first real foray into trying to put together a series, a story if you will, of this kind.
Ben Mcdonnell, who own Famous Policy, also races him. Originally I was going to come at this with a fashion bent, but after a couple minutes of shooting I realized the true story lay in the connection between these two animals. The best photos were caught when neither of them were paying any attention to me. In those moments, it was like I was peering in on a couples private conversation. The stories, the experiences, the hardships…experienced between these two… it was fun to try and capture.
Tested tethered shooting with laptop and LR 3.
Plus:
- very useful to see lighting & other details from bigger display
- easy & fast to test how the photos will look in BW, with tonings etc.
Minus:
- cables... bloody cables... they are always too short or tangled to feet
- delay. It takes a moment before the NEF file is displayed in the laptop.
- files are only stored in the computer (need to backup them separately)
PS. Image is shopped to the laptop display as the machine was already shut down when I took this photo :P
PSS. Positively surprised that the Nikon D3 in the picture gets more attention than the tethered shooting (and it is not even my camera) :D
This was the worlds first communication satellite, it worked as a passive radio reflector for the brief time it was visible to both the sender and receiver
To me it is almost a work of art.
Two of these connected by a tether would make a sublime art project in orbit. Spinning around as they cross the sky, they would be an awe inspiring sight. They would not go in a straight line.
Sometimes they would even appear to change direction and go backwards. If you did not know beforehand what this was it would freak you out.
This would be cheap and effective. Perfect for crowdfunding.
Just think of the pictures that you could take of this! Even a fairly short tether would provide an object visibly spanning several degrees from the ground. I remember seeing these in the 1960's as they crossed the sky. They were as bright as Venus sometimes. Two of them connected is the important part, that way it just won't be a star moving across the sky. It will be something almost alive. Friction with atmosphere will keep it spinning and probably get it going pretty fast. What is shown above is the smaller of the two Echo satellites and it is 135 feet in diameter. They are practically foolproof and inflate themselves due to the residual air in the balloon. This is just begging to be done.
There are even valid scientific reasons to do this....
A - zero gee structural studies
This is the best way to build large living spaces quickly. Blow one of these up and spray a quick dry foam over the inside surfaces. I think the later Echo satellite actually had something like this on the interior to help it retain shape.
B - tether dynamics
We need to know how to control something like this, it could be of great use down the line as a way to send raw material back from distant asteroids. Let's say you have a target with a fair amount of metal that you mine and refine with robotic devices. Put your goodies in a bag and spin up the bag and the asteroids rotation. At the proper moment you cut the tether. Instant free dV!
C - orbital debris removal
There will be nothing better than something like this filled completely with a energy absorbing foam material to suck up all that nasty space debris in low earth orbit. Just maneuver it into the proper orbit and let the laws of physics do the rest.
Evening spring sun filters through the trees in Morgan Creek Park, Cedar Rapids.
Aerial Pano, pictures taken using a tethered quadcopter and Ricoh GR camera.
File: Morgan 14095-98a_tma.jpg
West Jordan ANG Base just outside Salt Lake City and a tethered pair of Utah US Army Air National Guard
Boeing AH-64A Apaches await their next assignment.
9th October 1996.
The Apache is probably the most feared western helicopter of all time with an extraordinary amount of fire-power.
Without even pointing the helicopter at the target, that chin mounted gun can be fired from all directions simply by the crew using their helmet-mounted sights to look at the enemy position and the amount of rockets and missiles this killing machine can unleash is not even worth thinking about!
There is simply no-place to hide when an Apache arrives on scene.
Scanned 35mm transparency best viewed on black by pressing L
2600 x 2600 pixel image designed to work as wallpaper on most iOS devices.
Typefaces: Bordeaux Roman Bold, Berkeley Oldstyle
Project Morpheus Tether Test 8. Photo Date: March 13, 2012. Location: Building 18 - Antenna Range. Photographer: Lauren Harnett.
Project Morpheus Tether Test 8. Photo Date: March 13, 2012. Location: Building 18 - Antenna Range. Photographer: Lauren Harnett.
Project Morpheus Tether Test 8. Photo Date: March 13, 2012. Location: Building 18 - Antenna Range. Photographer: Lauren Harnett.
Location:
Johnson Space Center
VTB Flight Complex