Hello again, everyone! In the meantime, I’ve cobbled together some new bracing struts for our PowerKite, and treated it to a test flight on a day with pleasant weather but unfortunately very little wind (wind speed: 6 knots, temperature: minus 20 degrees). And it paid me back with an ...[Read more]
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A Sunday afternoon in the Antarctic with drifting snow…
Hello, everyone! It’s a Sunday afternoon and I’m taking a break. The weather isn’t exactly inviting: the wind has picked up to 50 kilometres per hour, with light snowfall and drifting. I had actually planned to send up the station’s PowerKite, which I’d done maintenance on the day before, again. ...[Read more]