September 30, 2002
Monday
Monday
Armadillo flies!
Dale Amon (Belfast, Northern Ireland) Aerospace
(0)Armadillo Aerospace has finally let one of it's team fly on their testbed. Although the flight was a tethered one of short duration and trivial height, it encompassed all the dangerous bits of engine startup, liftoff, hover, setdown and engine shutdown. Major kudos are due to John Carmack and his team! You can read more and find the video here.
In John's own words:
We finally let someone ride on one of our landers. Only a few seconds in the air, but still pretty damn cool!
If the name John Carmack sounds familiar... it's probably because it is. He is a founder of Id Software and the author of all those classic state-of-the-art pushing games from Castle Wolfenstein through Quake Arena and beyond.
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