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Team Gamera HPH assembled the Gamera in the University of Maryland's Comcast Center on May 5th 2011, for the first flight attempt of this amazing (more)

Team Gamera HPH assembled the Gamera in the University of Maryland's Comcast Center on May 5th 2011, for the first flight attempt of this amazing vehicle.

University of Maryland video of record-setting flight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q70tM5sDQhc

Press Release: http://www.eng.umd.edu/html/media/release.php?id=104

Facts Sheet: http://www.eng.umd.edu/html/media/images/HPHHandout.pdf

Promo Video: http://youtu.be/uT4y4xb2UYI

Thanks TONS to Andrew Aversa (aka zircon) for the use of his mindbendingly awesome music. The song is Mindbender from his 2007 CD Antigravity. Check him out at zirconmusic.com.

Flights of the improved 2012 Gamera II can be view on our youtube page and here:
50-second flight: http://youtu.be/H0qfgBeb35Y
70-second tethered flight: http://youtu.be/307rirGTyGM

http://www.agrc.umd.edu/gamera/

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