Newsgroup: it.hobby.aquiloni
Titolo: Il gruppo di quelli dell'Obelisco

Dr. Maureen Clemmons
mau...@pyramidiots.org
Dr. Clemmons is a business consultant from Reseda, California. She
originally devised this theory over four years ago. Her son Sean and her
daughter Elizabeth are always at the field tests helping out however
they can. Dr. Clemmons has also handled many of the business aspects of
the project, including the establishment of Archeologee, an organization
designed to fund archeological projects, and investing her own money
into the project. She has also designed numerous products whose sales
benefit the Kite-Obelisk Project. Her energy and enthusiasm makes every
field test a field day!
Dr. Mory Gharib
mo...@pyramidiots.org
Dr. Gharib is a professor of aeronautics at the world-renown California
Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. His specialty is
biological fluid mechanics, but he never lets a good idea pass him by -
so when Dr. Clemmons mentioned her idea to him, it immediately grabbed
his attention. He handed the idea over to Emilio Graff, who was put in
charge of doing preliminary calculations to examine the feasibility of
the idea in the summer of 1999.
Emilio Castaño Graff
emi...@pyramidiots.org
Emilio is an undergraduate in aeronautical engineering at Caltech. He
will graduate in 2002, after which he plans on pursuing a career in race
car design. He started working with Dr. Gharib as a pre-freshman in the
summer of 1998 on magnetic levitation. But after the kite theory was
presented, he spent the next two summers working on that, after which he
started to work on the project part-time during the school year. Emilio
was born in Brazil, but when he was 9 years old he moved to Sugar Land,
Texas, and finished high school there at Dulles High School. He has been
in Pasadena ever since he started attending Caltech. His hobbies include
designing webpages about kites and obelisks. Click here to download his
résumé (PDF)
Daniel Correa
dan...@pyramidiots.org
Mr. Correa is the inventor of the Inca-Block, a block that adds strength
to a building with its interlocking profile. His company, Inca-Block, is
based in San Diego, California, and Tecate, Mexico. Other projects have
included the San Diego Grand Prix of 2000, and, of course, the obelisk.
With his concrete-pouring facilities, Mr. Correa was able to furnish us
with two custom-designed, 6900-pound obelisks made of solid concrete and
iron re-bar. Without him the project would never have taken off!
Eric May
er...@pyramidiots.org
Eric is from Santa Barbara, California. He is an expert kite-surfer, and
is a great teacher on the subject of flying kites - and he can untangle
lines faster than anyone you've ever seen. His skills in kite handling
and kite flying made the field tests a breeze. With Eric on one line,
and Emilio, his pupil, on the other, flying the kite has become an
exercise in beauty and perfection.
We would also like to thank the following people:
Loering Johnson
Maral Johnson
Mara Johnson Burnett
Fred Burnett III
Fred Burnett IV
John Clemmons
Laura Adair
Fred Hartman
Dr. Emil Theodory
Les Schuyler
Vic Rechtman
Kent Stewart
Janet Stewart
David Stewart
Jan Tatangelo
Jim Tatangelo
Harry Brodock
Don Kissack
Kamma Kissack
Ed Teets
 Joe Velazquez
Lynn Velazquez
Christophe Maquestiaux
Keith Kennedy
George Reedy
Westside Rentals, Quartz Hill
Quartz Hill City Council
The Tecate crew: Miguel Gomez, Jesus Soto, Rogelio Carrillo Alemán,
Rosendo Santiago Sanchez, Juan Diego Valdez García, Cenebio Gutierrez,
Juan Manuel Briseños, Adan Arrachea, Francisco Quinobes, Miguel Angel,
José de Jesus Higuero Figueroa, Oscar Ochoa, Carlos Herrera Azavala

DATI:
Our most recent success was raising a 6,900-pound
obelisk using a kite in winds ranging from 15 to 20 miles
per hour in just 25 seconds!
Il nostro più recente successo è consistito nell'alzare,
In Soli 25 Secondi, un obelisco da 6900 Libbre
(3130 Kg) usando Un aquilone con vento
tra le 15 e le 20 Miglia (Stat) per ora (Max 33Km/h)
Conversioni:
Beau     m/s           Km/h          Mph               Classe
5          8 - 10.7      29 - 38   17.8 -23.9      vento teso
TAKO!