Ballooning for sustainability: Bertrand Piccard and his vision | 11 comments (11 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

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On another point, we also estimated it would cost a small fortune. We said 25 million, based on some very crude guesses, but their manager Borschberg didn't want to comment on this number. I suspect it may well be too low.

by GreatZamfir on Fri Nov 16th, 2007 at 11:27:09 AM EST
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Thank you for the information!

The current budget is $60M for the first prototype phase so your estimate was (as is usually the case) on the low side.

This is such an interesting project -- of course it is not the holy grail in aviation but it can provide inspiration. Your university might have been lost a chance there :-)

Orthodoxy is not a religion.

by BalkanIdentity (balkanid _ at _ google.com) on Fri Nov 16th, 2007 at 04:27:51 PM EST
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Ballooning for sustainability: Bertrand Piccard and his vision | 11 comments (11 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

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