BASE 23 Flight: 2008 May 7

Launch: Tzouanakis Intermediate School, Greencastle, IN 12:45UTC

Ascent Rate:   1250 ft/min Ascent Profile (.jpg) Ascent Rate (.jpg)    Google Earth (.kml) file

Burst Altitude:  82,300 feet

Landing Time: 14:32 UTC

Landing Site: on US 52 southeast of Rushville, Indiana

Launch video (.wmv) Burst Video (.wmv) Lost Lid Video (.wmv)

A normal flight with early burst. The balloon returned in one large sheet attached to the nozzle, no stringing as has been seen on most flights. Lost the lid on part of one pod during the post-burst collisions between pods. Unusual ending, with the flight string being caught by a moving truck traveling east (actually southeast) on US 52. Student experiment with four small containers of liquids revealed that the distilled white vinegar and CocaCola behaved like water, and the oil lost temperature much quicker. (See graph)

Rushville Republican article on the flight, especially the landing.