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Re:YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “f... by jamestimmins on Friday March 08, 2019 @12:54AM (#19335444)
It's exciting to see y'all working on this. I'm all for the Buck Rogers-style innovation.

I'm curious, how high have you actually flown it? Up to 15,000 ft? That sounds absolutely terrifying.

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Re:YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “f... by dmayman on Friday March 08, 2019 @01:07AM (#19335487)
No we haven’t to 15k ft, we’ve modelled that. We’ve flown at approx 7k ft above mean sea level in alps
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Re:YC's latest moonshot bet is a startup building a $380K “f... by Footkerchief on Friday March 08, 2019 @11:24AM (#19338973)
How high above local ground level?
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