Captain Jebediah fulfills two contracts for low-altitude aerial observations while collecting science data over the highlands and water north of KSC
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C7 engineers are currently stuffing all 21 spare batteries from unused KerBalloon missions into the tail of the Civvie for data xmit power
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Probodobodyne happy with their data, first Civvie contract a success! We have 37% of our batteries left for future contract flights
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once battery power is used up the Civvie prototype will be flown to Kravass City & retired at the Air History Museum, likely by homegirl Val
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nice weather, high cloud ceiling & little to no wind. Cpt Jeb will take the Civvie out after 2nd sunrise for a flight to satisfy 2 contracts
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Cpt Jeb has left the astronaut complex rdy room, heading to launch control for his briefing. Will overfly these two bit.ly/ContractSites-…
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briefing completed and we have a Go from Wx for Civvie to fly, Jeb's already out at the craft doing his walkaround inspection w/ Val helping
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Bill & Bob are positioning themselves as usual to document takeoff/landing while Jeb awaits taxi clearance & Val returns to launch ctrl
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Jeb is on his way out to Rwy27 for takeoff. He will climb runway heading to 400m ASL then turn on course for his first waypoint 24km distant
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Jeb departed a few minutes ago and is already at 1.2km continuing to climb under full power while hugging the coast as he heads to the north
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Jeb is through 2km, Flight has cleared him to head out over open water now that he has enough height to glide back to land if engine fails
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turned about & heading west now, Jeb successfully collected contract data out over the Kerblantic a few km offshore, one more waypoint left
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Flight is vectoring Jeb back towards KSC after he collected the final observational data. He will enter the pattern on base leg for Rwy09
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descent & approach were too short, Jeb ended up high and fast on final and Flight directed him to go around. Will setup another Rwy09 appr
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that was close. Jeb almost landed before the apron - running into that would not have been good. Still, flared high & stalled to hit hard
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Jeb is having trouble steering as he taxis back to the HAB, looks like the Civvie will be needing a new set of landing gear...
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there won't be any in-flight photos this time, both cameras were unmounted to be integrated for hi-alt balloon test launch later this month
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C7 engineers are ordering a new set of landing gear for the Civvie, they say gear came close to collapsing and pancaking the airplane
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the ridiculous weight of the Civvie due to its overbuilt airframe also didn't help matters. Lighter production model will be more tolerant
