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Google Kites..?

cheezycheese - 1-12-2015 at 03:51 PM

And they're hiring for all you engineer type folk...

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-makani-hiring-2015-12

volock - 1-12-2015 at 04:10 PM

Why did it have to be California? I hate California (mostly cause of a law involving narcolepsy and Driver's licences). Working on an X-Project for google would be awesome though. Even if the project they launched in state killed a certain airport letting me use the non-active runways to play on.

Windstruck - 1-12-2015 at 05:28 PM

Cool stuff! Wonder what happens when birds hit either the kite planes themselves or the tether line?

B-Roc - 2-12-2015 at 10:29 AM

Remember that billion dollar blimp that ran amuck in PA a month or so ago... what happens when one of these kites stalls? Will they be lost at sea or crash into some rural corn field and at what cost?

Windstruck - 2-12-2015 at 11:44 AM

Good point B-Roc. I'm sure nobody on PKF has ever had a kite stall and fall from the sky. I know I've never dropped a kite...:saint:

Quote: Originally posted by B-Roc  
Remember that billion dollar blimp that ran amuck in PA a month or so ago... what happens when one of these kites stalls? Will they be lost at sea or crash into some rural corn field and at what cost?