Near Space Pilots - 80,000 feet

On June 1st 2012, 5 guys took FPV gear into near space from Georgetown, Texas. Thanks to Eagletree Systems and Haiyin Lithium Polymer Batteries for providing much needed equipment.
Flight Crew
Kevin Head
Tony Eck
Bill Corbett
Mike Fisher
Craig Buesing

[@ICU10]

With this...I believe the earth is a BOWL...FLAT...AND GLOBE.

[@salmankhalid1508]

I think it is called fish lens

[@jl4183]

No it’s not called fish lens, it’s called vibrations.

[@salmankhalid1508]

@@jl4183 Vibrations? 🤔🤔🤔

[@jl4183]

muhammad salman yes

[@nevosoft1]

@@jl4183 youre an idiot vibrations I guess you don't know what a go pro lens default lens is it is a fisheye lens

[@Kwint.]

imagine you were driving that car at the end and you see a balloon with gear falling from space

[@worstforever1999]

Your balloon has reached 80,000 feet means in the stratosphere!! 👏👏

[@huzzzer6083]

Oh look! You can see all the way to the magical ice wall and you can even see the turtle carrying the Earth on its back!

[@erickamaral4622]

Yes! Wonderful

[@vanlifeveteran3376]

Seems flat to me.

[@cat3052]

👍👍👍💀

[@patricdaniels3760]

Yeah for a second there l was with you, but seems though they used that same wide angle fish eye lens. But yeah seems tho

[@bassmancanningb]

I hate these lenses.

[@dlinares126]

To people with negative comments, I had seven spare minutes of time to enjoy someones creative video.

[@tejasdhamnaskar67]

I enjoyed too... got to see the super gigantic Star of our solar system .. our SUN 😍😍😍😍 that too from near space

[@SherdogCreep]

The IQ Zone 2 Painal?

[@halloweenville1]

What do you mean by negative comments, people are allowed to be inquisitive, we can all enjoy the video, but not everyone feels fulfilled by just going WOWWW, some people need to question everything, nothing wrong with that.

[@leandroravatan9744]

Very, very cool idea! Awesome video! Congratulations, guys and thank you for sharing.

[@piggawigga4929]

If this was not recorded it would've be hard to believe you guys are heroes

[@abulhasan9258]

oh my gosh!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! u guys are brilliant ,,, that was a endless hope ,, thank you all

[@seungjoo87]

It is amazing how close the payload landed to the moving car.

[@nodical802]

How is that amazing? You know how many cars and roads there are right?

[@JamieWex]

@@nodical802 they’re I believe indicating how dangerous it was to do that. Most people go out to a desert where there isn’t anyone around to harm when they do stuff like this

[@nodical802]

@@JamieWex mh yea I see it now

[@PriyaCreationsFun]

Hats off to you guys are amazing . NASA needs you

[@noobyman8612]

6:05 inside the car: OMG ALIEN!!!

[@wallahhabibiiii]

lol nice

[@timotiyosmattithyahu4994]

With that lens it looks like the earth goes from flat to round many times even curves the opposite way. Damn we're on a rollercoaster!

[@joshuamiencha6715]

Timotiyos Mattithyahu infact it forms syclines and anticlines... So which is which? Convex or concave?

[@shanktheglobe954]

Back in 2012 they weren't as careful when faking earth curve. Since then flat earthers have exposed the fisheye technique. You can tell too because everytime the curve looks like a globe earth the video pauses for a second, as if to say look, this is what the horizon really looks like lol seriously watch. At 3:30 Every time the horizon looks like a globe they pause the video for a second. Totally done to brainwash you. Earth is actually flat.

[@jmmmnliberal8274]

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed that. Which means these amateur go pro cameras attached to these home made balloons prove nothing. Ill stick to images from the ISS

[@johnharris7353]

Thanks guys!

[@YounisJackson]

80.000 feet = 24 klm 😊

[@estelaosorio7468]

Wtf is a klm boi

[@estelaosorio7468]

Younes El Boukhari do you mean kinky ligaments JOeMaMa???????

[@doofus401k......]

@IPA SOLÉ Metric System to me is easier to use for temperature but distance to me is the system that America uses

[@adammacdomhnail2014]

Poor Americans not having a clue how to use the metric system lol

[@doofus401k......]

@@adammacdomhnail2014 Yes you're right so for Celsius is easier

[@shelleytzcc1088]

Id like to say thanks for the music you chose to go along with this amazing video. ❤😊

[@nastynxt]

Wow one of the best video on KZbin. Thanks for uploading and doing this experiment. I would recommend to watch this video on 4k television biggr the better. Far more realistic than movie gravity.

[@barryflo]

Awesome video!! Was the camera damaged at all? Was it still feeding data from 70,000 ft or did it cut off at a certain altitude?

[@user-hi6gj1fx7e]

So awesome id love to do this one day. Would you say fish eye lense is the best way to go? do you get a better wider shot is that why you used those not a standard lense set up?

[@janjezz]

Why can't any of these guys record with a non distortion lens?

[@leonaabarca6744]

Thank you for sharing. This is awesome 👏🏼

[@milanmohanty4397]

Respect to the innovation, hard work and investment

[@rogersbonettmb]

This is simply amazing. Thanks for sharing it with us. How did you take over of the cameras free fall?

[@mukunddanm68]

This type of video only i had search for. Thank u so much.

[@alejandrotrevino4310]

Great!!...congratulations guys!!!...nice travel !!!!...regards from Guadalajara México

[@beauthebest8979]

U can see Saturn at 4:17 at the bottom left

[@MrBoykauvball]

Good observation

[@Sidevity19]

I saw it!!!

[@Sidevity19]

@IPA SOLÉ still pretty cool to see a planet though

[@pain00077]

@IPA SOLÉ I understand

[@chippyjohn1]

LMAO, not a planet, it's sun glare. You are hopefully joking. Do you think 24km would make a difference to 1.6 billion km?

[@ZubairKhan-vs8fe]

Do you need any air traffic clearance to do this? What if this balloon gets into an aircraft's engine?

[@Sssssssslf]

That's what I've always wondered

[@khamaji09]

Barrol roll

[@fernandovalencia3542]

You do need a space force license to do this.

[@andyappleton3353]

@@khamaji09 A barrol roll? The camera performed a barol roll.

[@thangteaLS]

Emergency landing will a head

[@karthikchand007]

I appreciate guys,you are awesome

[@davidgriffiths7696]

Great result. Go higher 100,000 and beyond with instruments for temperature, air density (can calculate using balloon diameter), and stabilise rig for steadier footage, shade tunnel for footage of outer space….this is just the beginning

[@glenturney4750]

That was awesome! Good job guys! 😁

[@1dontknowmyownname]

you should have included a 5 second map showing where you launched and where it landed plus the distance to retrieve

[@pyro_chip8287]

Charly g agreed

[@fahim_ansari1990]

Charly G Good suggestion, I agree

[@donellparker6896]

For what?

[@antoine697]

They wouldn’t be able to retive it!! The earth is “rotating at a speed of over 1000 miles an hour” that camera would be in the other side of Texas” What goes up! Is coming str8 back down depending on how hard the wind is blowing with many other variables

[@Pixiuchu]

Kevin Mitchell GPS Tracker thingy like the ones they use for in the car ^^

[@miguelazofeifa9649]

Thank you,that was spectacular, gorgeous

[@daviddarlami6553]

once again thank you mr kavin.

[@artcore9886]

3:53 i can see my house from here.

[@mrmcgyver21]

how many mins it takes to fly 80k with that speed?

[@quentinp6128]

Very cool well done - thanks for posting

[@romanreings4595]

I'm proud of you bro for this video

[@andrewroberts7626]

Bet the motorist wasn't expecting that! Can I ask you how far it landed from the launch site?

[@armelind]

+Andrew Roberts I found the launch site and landing site on Google Earth by looking at the landmarks. The ballon flew about 9.5 miles..."as the crow flies". Here is a screenshot of Google Earth showing the flight distance. www.dropbox.com/s/qw0mju5oyv5pset/Weather%20balloon%20path.bmp?dl=0 Here are the coordinates of the Launch site - 30°38'57.48"N, 97°39'57.10"W Here are the coordinates of the Landing area - 30°32'57.39"N, 97°33'14.45"W I am not affiliated with this video in anyway. I just am bored and I was able to find both areas from the information straight from watching the video.

[@snozq]

Andrew Roberts h

[@ModernPatriotsUnited]

If they wanted an accurate view, why use a "fish eye" lens camera which distorts the image(concave-convex horizon)?.

[@RichardJohnB]

+John Smith agreed

[@airguntherapy8665]

+John Smith I've been waiting for one for years, I wish someone would opt for a flat lens for such an amazing event.

[@ljdean1956]

+- Rothschildocracy - :A fisheye lens is the only way to take in a large view. A medium or narrow angle lens would be more accurate looking but limited in view. Just look at ISS close ups of the horizon where the moon appears large. Of course, they wanted a narrow angle shot to get the moon in the image.

[@Ank49]

One of the greatest video...

[@anorenbergs]

Super video. Thanks.

[@shaktipatnaik5091]

I JUST GOT A FREE AIR TICKET AND AN AWESOME RIDE IN THE INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES.. THANKS FOR THE GREAT VIEW.. LOVED IT...

[@Jay-mt6nu]

Sure you did

[@Mr.Deko86]

That was amazing!!! Great job!!! The view from your highest altitude showed great detail of the sky becoming gradually dark. Have you flow again since this video?

[@davey3710]

do planes go lower then this?

[@Mr.Deko86]

@@davey3710 usually less than half this altitude. The highest commercial airline I was in was the Concorde at 60,000 ft. Extremely high, but not with this visual.

[@davey3710]

Did it looks like regular plane attitude what was the difference

[@shaifulgoni5383]

Team work with amazing camera 👏👍

[@justenjoy8459]

I think the balloon took off from a soccer field at McMaster athelete complex georgetown and it landed on exchange boulevard & hyltin street in hutto right.?

[@markbowen5519]

Wooow so amazing am going to try this someday👏😯💯

[@kalalukanamataa5901]

Concaveness was brought about by the camera. But well done brothers

[@vidyav5313]

What a creativity!!! Well done👍

[@lingerierendabunga2982]

Just curious, how far the distance between the first start location to the place where this camera was finally landed?

[@amandashults2807]

1:40 Tallest Peak in Maldives, Mount Villingili 2:42 Tallest Peak in Florida, Britton Hill 3:01 Tallest Peak in North America, Alaska, USA, Mt. Denali 3:13 Tallest Peak in South America, Argentina, Mt. Aconcagua 3:29 Tallest Peak in the World, Mount Everest, Nepal 3:37 The Deepest of Mariana Trench 11,000 feet 4:02 The Height of Olympus Mons, Mars

[@naeemdaud4036]

Anyone see this 2019? Great video 💪😍

[@testmony6107]

Never seen this it's really nice

[@naeemdaud4036]

@@testmony6107 thanks bro

[@ikramghani4181]

World is round. Amazing

[@formhubfar]

Why when the surface is in the lower portion of the screen is it concave?

[@3abersabeel100]

3:48 woow the sky is ROUND as well

[@MrMatVids]

Nice flight, great video :)

[@anabelcamacho6584]

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[@frankburdodrums8984]

Can someone please explain why I have to fly to LAX to get to Australia when I live in Peru. I'm sorry this just seems like a huge waste of time to me and I'm very very busy you know.

[@maheensulaiman7184]

Excellent video

[@sinister1784]

can anyone not use a god damn fish eyed lens ever...

[@danielkerr4100]

why fish eye lens are great for these kinda thngs

[@sinister1784]

+dan k just want to see how "curved" the horizon is....

[@zanesilver]

flat earth :)

[@TheCooterboo]

+Jeremy Gilmore they use these for the ultra wide picture the lens is capable of capturing. The lenses/camera you are requesting to see the curve are far too expensive to meet your request. We're talking $25k

[@Brickkzz]

they also make the viewing angle larger so we can see more

[@Tomsgamingspace.]

flat earthers would say this is fake.

[@dboydboy1000]

Flat earthers would say your comment is stupid.

[@ICU10]

Flat earthers would say, "why doesn't someone just use a normal camera, instead of a fish eye?". By the way, I'm neither a flat nor a globe, I've become neutral.

[@longhornsfan99]

Holy shit dude. I'm from Georgetown. This is awesome.

[@V4Angels]

How did u get back camera?? Explain..

[@zarishiftikhar5520]

lovely work dude ....i enjoyed a lot

[@WinstonWu888]

Notice that when the camera wobbles and bounces, you see the curvature going up and down, convex and concave. But when the camera stops moving and is still, the horizon seems level. Furthermore, where is the 1000 mph spin of the Earth that we've been told about?

[@croissantproductions]

I know this comment is seven years old but you must not understand how big the Earth is.

[@O.A.Level.Mathematics]

All this took 7 minutes? How much time till it blew up and how much time in falling till ground?

[@brandoncooper1962]

Do you know how far away it landed from the launch site and did you retrieve it?

[@topcartoons8401]

Anyone see this 2018?

[@shibinvs5316]

Yes

[@mikesmith1502]

Id get a 100,000foot long rope and tie it to the balloon and leave it up near space , every couple days id bring it back down to see if i coud see a ufo!!!!

[@prakiz]

@@mikesmith1502 sounds like u live in wonderland dude, enough cheap drugs

[@shobuzkhan3329]

Yes today ☺

[@ultraanimezone2741]

Shabuz Khan me too

[@jumpnam]

Mad how it looks effectively like the balloon is in space...yet it’s only 15 miles up 😳😳

[@blazikem]

by that point you're above most of the atmosphere so it practically is

[@Cblizy]

How far did it touch down from where it was released About 10 mi nvm

[@vikkivignesh523]

it's good then I want to know the location from where and where it's falling??

[@alexshi8583]

lol, i wonder bout the guy in the car at the end. he/she probably freaked out.

[@d.n.3652]

Alex Shi lol I was thinking the same thing

[@shyblondebbw]

Alex Shi Unless he was one of the launchers who had been tracking it for retrieval...

[@ragav1197]

Alex Shi haha

[@akzey777]

Alex Shi anmjl to tula in

[@johndough9020]

Thanks for proving our realm is flat and stationary.

[@entangledmindcells9359]

thanks for putting your intelligence out for full display.

[@jeba992001]

Excellent experiment.

[@nyc.bt.9512]

Oh my god that’s is a kool thing to see is kind of scientific journey and fun in the mean time thumbs up guys and we know you are enjoying it too.

[@MultiRayan12]

Hey I got it and solved the problem. The earth is round, flat and concave in this footage

[@zarsmozcan9298]

fish eye lens.

[@ICU10]

Common sense 🙂

[@XELLTRONICS]

ok..who else wants to do this...

[@enderlegasov]

Without a fisheye lens.

[@okiedoak201]

So how did you find where it landed...and did a FAA clearance needed....nice vid.

[@rtanidean4931]

Way cool. Creative, explorative & fun. Thx for sharing. To the many comments that are twitching about shape of earth... please stop. This is just a cool video that they are willing to share. There was no attempt here to draw any conclusions about earths shape. In the end... neither viewpoint is confirmed nor discredited by this cool video. Thx.

[@d.e.harper1501]

Love how you screenshot it right when the horizon bends...smh.

[@ludysn8920]

Exactly it’s flat obviously that’s why you can’t get too far up it popped but they stop it when it looks curvy when it looks flat whole time

[@ludysn8920]

Henry Discipline no I believe in a spinning planet moving through space with black holes and other planets moons and shit (sarcasm)

[@O6i]

3:49 bowl earth lol

[@ludysn8920]

Henry Discipline yes I haven’t responded because I’m tired of talking when y’all won’t go up there and show me we’re on ball revolving around a fire ball that doesn’t evaporate the oceans how do we see the same side of it all the time and how we tidally locked when the moon spins how does that make since to y’all but my people are STUPID🤔💯

[@O6i]

@Henry Discipline did you know we only see one side of the moon from earth? Flat moon confirmed 😂

[@ducktape5970]

the horizon looks convex and concave alternatively so, in average it's flat ! LOL

[@zarsmozcan9298]

fish eye lens. İt's FLAT bro !

[@OutlawMantis]

@Henry Discipline The Earth is flat, bro. Millions of people agree with this globally. They can't all be wrong.

[@resulameti8038]

@Henry Discipline earth is flat

[@NARKISDUDE]

that balloon popping was amazing. thanks

[@kunalteam2654]

which place u start up the camera? and where it land?

[@deanstewart2382]

A lot of people here don't have much knowledge of lens and why certain ones are used... Those same people also don't know why the word "theory" is used in sciences. But, flat earthers gotta flat.

[@alucero7832]

this is an "In your face"....or...."I told you".....or "blow me ".....clearly

[@sowaadventures44]

Anyone in 2019?

[@vikramsrinivasan8176]

How video signal.reaches base station when cell phone signal breaks in lesser heights?

[@peelong1339]

please explain why the earth went from 180 curve to -180 curve once the camera fliped/spun

[@anubus316]

fish eye lens warps the image

[@abraham4930]

Earth is flat..

[@franciscoduarte1925]

3:48 everyone can see....the world is not a ball neither is flat....it is a bowl ! let me get my skateboard.

[@simarpalsingh1078]

Dinesh bhagwan apki maa ki ko de 😊!

[@simarpalsingh1078]

Francisco 3:48 this see is only because of fish eye lens

[@sugengriadi5745]

Hahahaha bumi ini bulat brooo

[@f.a3202]

3:52 what about this

[@simarpalsingh1078]

@@f.a3202 because of fish eye lens sister

[@Darkkorex]

God dam firmament. Would have gone higher otherwise.

[@benjaminbrown3939]

Shut up

[@lillu0007]

excellent work

[@zarifmukhidov2758]

What ! How did you find the bolloon

[@gerardoforcina]

Pilots? Who? I only saw a bunch of guys playing careless...

[@MegaPfiffikus]

So Gerardo Forcina seems to be a very good pilot, when you fly to space next time please ask him to fly!!! Thank you Gerardo for your comment! You are a genius like FPVav8tr.

[@MegaPfiffikus]

Another great pilot: Jan Erik Kristiansen He knows everthing about GoPro lenses. Bravo!

[@glenturney4750]

Gerardo Forcina: I play carelessly too. It's more fun. 😁

[@jovanzacevski]

wtf,can't anyone just put regular camera and not a fish wye ?? just put 50$ camera,simple.

[@ICU10]

Common sense question.🙂

[@iiparachuteregiment8800]

Great work lads

[@irfanuddin4707]

How does a plane fly in the sky? can anyone explain?

[@davidmcgroarty8999]

Pretty neat but careless because an airport was right next to you, at 2:55 you can see it at the bottom of the screen. Also 18,000-45,000 is class A airspace where ALL aircraft are flying on instruments. Stuff like this is why they're fighting to make our fun illegal.

[@Shred_Tube]

shut up

[@davidmcgroarty8999]

Wow thanks for your brilliant feedback. Most people are clueless to airspace and the rules of them.

[@Shred_Tube]

shut up

[@danpatrick8251]

David Mcgroarty you are exactly right. This was way too risky and there should have been some things done to prevent potential for catastrophe. What this accomplishes is major fines or even jail time, tightening, from our already too controlling government on rules for what is allowed and what is not allowed. People just need to be more considerate and take proper precautions.

[@diggerpete9334]

They did this legally with full authority now stop being jealous.

[@codyh2907]

not a flat earther but this footage proves nothing with the lens used....notice how it bent space the opposite direction?..

[@RussianWhiteX]

CJ HOL the earth looks round when in the middle of the screen, you can still use an optic physic formula to find the effect it has on the images whether you see the horizon on the top of the screen or at the bottom, flat earthers are close-minded noobs that waste their time trying to prove something idiotic instead of using their time to spread awareness about global issues such as global warming, acidification of oceans, 50% of sea life lost in 100 years, etc. flat earthers are on the same levels as people denying the holocaust, they can't see beyond their noob's nose.

[@codyh2907]

It's actually the entire opposite of what you are saying....Close minded is taking everything you learned in government approved history and science books from school and never questioning the content. There was a holocaust but the numbers where exaggerated. Almost every other country on the same continent as Germany who wrote history books about it drastically differ from the Western versions. Oceans are dying. With countries like China dumping toxic waste into the waters and Nuclear disasters like Fukushima leaking radioactive material into the oceans is bound to take it's toll. There is plenty of evidence supporting government funded weather manipulation programs and legitimate science on the other side so it's maybe not so much that people don't believe it's changing but more so that fossil fuels are not to blame and it's an agenda. It doesn't take a genius to do enough homework and figure out there are many things we where taught to be untrue and the government lies non stop . All I'm saying is people have a reason to question and it's good to question. Like I said, questioning one's reality is not close minded..

[@elterrible06]

lol. don't want to spend time expounding on it but it has to do with the physics of optical lenses. not exactly the same, but kinda reminds you why your half-inch marble has got the image warped and always upside down.

[@codyh2907]

elterrible06 i dont know crap about lenses so ill take your word for it

[@RussianWhiteX]

CJ HOL I would really like to see your so called research, 50 to 70% of global warming can be attributed to animal exploitation, be it meat, cheese, eggs, etc. Global use of fossil fuels takes part maybe of the 10%, same goes for acidification of oceans, the greater responsible is the U.S.A. and so called ''developed' countres dumping cow's shit and residues on the coast. I also know about HAARP and weather manipulation, but not everything is a huge conspiracy, it is always easy to blame others or those in power, everybody is corrupted, to say that it's the governments and etc. is to be lazy, by simply changing dietary habits, you reduce tremendously water consumption and carbon emissions, I wonder why the americans are the only ones to believe global warming is a hoax to rise up so called taxes, when they were proven to work in all europe, and btw I was living there, in france and spain, which they removed because people always bitch for nothing. But people are so narrow minded and egotistical that they only care about their own comfort. Go blame the companies for not letting us develop hydrogen based cars ( existing already since 1980) and electric cars in the whole world. Again most of those are american corporations. Being open-minded is about expanding the perspective on a subject by looking at many different directions, what do flat-earthers do? quite the opposite, they deny every piece of evidence there is, saying it is from programming, again ignorance at it's finest, and they only quote the bible and ancient texts and deny every physical law there is, I know the evidence of flat-earthers, I was open-minded to that, but it is complete bullcrap. When i was in school in france, many jews from concentration camps came to school to tell their stories, and excursions were made to go the concentration camps to remember to not repeat history and promote compassion, all the nay-sayers always come from a place of lazyness and ignorance.

[@breeze7844]

Great video. Wow.

[@tommysavin7969]

This is amazing! I have too many questions!!

[@rurukaba]

Can someone just send a normal camera up please? No wide angle lenses! I just wanna see the normal shot

[@Detoxingforlife]

Omg a GoPro camera showing curvature at 50ft 🤣 I guess the side walk is curved too lol 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@zarsmozcan9298]

fish eye lens.

[@tassila26]

Earth is flaat!! There is no doubt now hhh

[@stronzer59]

How amazing the Star Wars theme song is being played somewhere in outer space.

[@lijumnochi8203]

How far it fell from the place of launch?