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To: callmejoe
I seem to remember a long running advertisement in the back of magazines like Popular Mechanics and Popular Science for the sale of weather balloons for fun and profit. Wonder if they're still being sold and if there has been a recent spike in sales volume?
3,417 posted on 08/21/2004 8:06:40 AM PDT by ExSoldier (M1A: Any mission. Any conditions. Any foe. At any range.)
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To: ExSoldier

If I go to Radio Shack or some large toy store and buy a model airplane or a model rocket, aren't there federal regulations that stipulate the maximum altitude? I remember last year before the war the toy planes were an issue.

Is it legal for me as a private citizen to launch a high-altitude balloon? What if I live near an airport? If not, how can they sell those things?

Not to get into the "freedom vs security" issue, but "there should be a law against that".


3,426 posted on 08/21/2004 8:52:12 AM PDT by callmejoe
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