[e_engineer]

NASA is not having good luck with flying things this year, but Helios never looked very airworthy IMHO.

[e_engineer]

[Cicero]

It's fun playing around with gadgets like this. When I was a boy, my cousin and I made a step hydroplane boat out of brown paper and glue (marine epoxy), put a 25 HP outboard on the back, and whizzed up and down our local river. The stern was made of 3/4" plywood to clamp the engine onto, and there were two plywood stringers down the middle, but otherwise the rest of it was just layers of brown paper soaked in glue.

But fun as it is, it's not terribly practical. This whole Helios project is a politically motivated boondoggle.

[RightWhale]

The investigators will spend the next week on Kauai trying to figure out what went wrong.

Tough assignment.

[tubebender]

I wonder if the chase team contributed to it's demise...

[Atlas Sneezed]

If it weren't for NASA crash investigation teams, they'd have to lay off half their work force!