@ChrisTurk I just emailed the mechanical engineering department. Matt is just gonna love that, I bet. [img]
[MEDIA] There’s some neat footage of Stratolaunch flying and landing. My soul left my body a few times and I sound like a huge dork :emoji_joy:...
I have a kickass low pass video I’ll post when I get back home. It was friggen beautiful.
SAFE LANDING! [img]
[img] Not sure :emoji_joy: our cubs are still in Georgia, thinking he probably won’t buy another plane while we’re out here. But, with Matt, he...
Space-x wanted him to work no less than 90-110 hours a week and he was like, LOL NOPE! A lot of former space x people work here and at TSC...
He won a Lindy at Airventure for the air cam he re-designed and built start to finish (and then was on the cover of Sport Aviation, on Cnn, etc)...
@ChrisTurk someone needs to slap Matt’s face on a pamphlet for Clemson engineering. :emoji_joy:
Yeah. He’s alright :emoji_sunglasses: I guess he’ll do.
[img] I like the way you think!
Giving him hell is my hobby :emoji_joy: People come up to me at the airport and tell me how smart he is and I usually joke, “ yeah, but he still...
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I jokingly call him “ plane Jesus,” cause he’s derpy at most things, but aviation/aerospace is where he’s a freaky little genius :emoji_joy:
Right?! It’s friggen awesome. I’m really proud of matt. He’s worked super hard and so have a lot of folks. It sucks Paul Allen passed away...
Pssh. 747s are child’s play....
He overhauled the propulsion, pneumatics, and flaps. The flaps were previously a huge problem cause they were failing during stress testing, so...
Also, CNN blabbed before they were allowed to and there were a bunch of randoms right in the take off path who would have been killed if it had...
A couple of Matt-bots designs could have crashed the damn thing if they didn’t deploy correctly, so I was sweating it hardcore. Nothing like...
I’ve been up since 4:08 am to watch the first flight of Stratolaunch since Matt-bot is in the control room. You couldn’t pay me to miss his big...
Me, every time the tower praises one of Matt’s designs as “ rock solid.” [img]
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