Commanders SMILEYFACE & Senan Torr are on our way to Sag A*! The trip so far. Still under 700lys of the bubble.

Commanders SMILEYFACE & Senan Torr are on our way to Sag A*! The trip so far. Still under 700lys of the bubble.













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  1. Micheal May11 April 2016 at 19:41

    Oh wow !!! I hope you both make it there and back...

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  2. Max Acceleration11 April 2016 at 19:51

    Micheal May thanks! Me too! She is pretty capable but I still worry there will be an "incident" and she will be forced to turn back or worse. She has an AFMU installed just in case.

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  3. Micheal May11 April 2016 at 19:58

    I tried 3 times, before I did it. It gets very lonely, - messes with your head after a while... My G/L has banned me from doing it again. Your daughter may return a different pilot.....

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  4. Dennis Wronka12 April 2016 at 02:02

    Enjoy your trip. If time allows I might race to catch up and meet you somewhere out there.

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  5. Max Acceleration12 April 2016 at 06:57

    Micheal May it's a long journey to be sure and your real get about it changing you. I think she will do fine but if she does get bored I'll challenge her to an SRV race or something to help her through it.

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  6. Max Acceleration12 April 2016 at 07:00

    Chris Dibben thanks! Yeah I'm glad the AFMU will now repair the canopy. I was lucky and managed to avoid and hull or canopy damage my last trip but I did suffer module damage due to heat after dropping right between a close binary.

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  7. Max Acceleration12 April 2016 at 07:03

    Dennis Wronka Thanks! There will be no need to race to catch up. We seem to be averaging only about 300ly per day at the moment.

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  8. Dennis Wronka12 April 2016 at 07:07

    Max Acceleration But I also don't see myself leaving for at least another two weeks or even a month.

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  9. Max Acceleration12 April 2016 at 09:09

    Dennis Wronka Ah, OK. In that case you might have to "race" to catch up :-)

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