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Old May 13th 11, 05:36 PM posted to sci.space.policy,sci.astro,sci.physics,sci.space.history
Robert Clark
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Default Private, uncrewed, suborbital test flights to start this year.

On May 12, 5:06*pm, Pat Flannery wrote:
On 5/12/2011 7:59 AM, Rick Jones wrote:

What is that in English?-) - for example is 10,000 MSL 10,000 feet or
something else?


No flying up to 10,000 above sea level out on the salt flat at 31.2706
N, 104.4546 W (Google Earth shows their circular test pad there) near
Van Horn, Texas and for a radius of 17 miles in any direction on
Thursday, May 5, 2011 between 7 AM - 12 AM local time.
The 17 miles is a little strange; one would have expected either 15 or
20 miles?

Pat


I wonder how much detail you could get with a powerful telephoto lens
at 17 miles away?
On this page are shown some photos taken from up to 2 miles away
using one of the most powerful telephoto lens ever made commercially
the Canon Super Telephoto 1200mm f/5.6L:

The Mother of all Telephotos.
Canon only made a handful of these puppies and we got one!
By Allan Weitz
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/find/n...l-L-Lenses.jsp

Bob Clark