PARIS hits the road with live GPS tracker test

At 2pm UK time this afternoon the El Reg Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) team will be running a one-hour live test on the GPS tracker unit designed to allow us to locate and recover the project's main payload. PARIS: Sponsored by Peer 1 Blue Tree Service's KoolTrax Lite delivers its location over the mobile phone …

[Annihilator]

Is it me

Or has Lester got the sweetest of deals when it comes to employment?? A year ago or so, he came up with the idea of farting about with a paper plane dropped out of the sky and now he gets to go on a sponsored pub-crawl to check the GPS works.

My hero!

[Anonymous Coward]

STOP

Stop messing about on the ground and get the damn thing airborne. There's plenty of RC aircraft available out there.

[Sir Runcible Spoon]

Sir

Paris, I love you.

No really, I do.

I've often thought of you

as I frequent the loo.

Sorry, too much politics has addled my brain. What was the article about again?

[LuMan]

True

That's right. Better still, get one of those rocket things that they sell in model shops. Bolt the GPS stuff on and who-o-o-o-sh! There's a parachute built in, so the kit'll be alright.

If it's too heavy then strap a couple of rockets together with string or something. That'll be well cool!

[uncle sjohie]

Top Gear?

Why not strap the car to some rockets? Just ask the guys from Top Gear.

[Geoff Webber]

whats wrong with the UK

Why does the map show some foreign country with funny road names.

[Anomalous Cowturd]

Orly?

Looks to cynical old me like Lester drove up a mountain, made sure the plane got a fix, then turned it off and drove back down the other side, conveniently turning it back on right next to a big road, then driving off in search of another beer....

Pictures, or it didn't happen!

PARIS, who else?

[DelM]

Well?

It's after 2 UK time (I think) and the link in the main article still is pointing to any.url.com. Hrm.

Helicopter because maybe PARIS got caught in the backwash?

[Wommit]

No good for me

I tried from 14:00 to 15:30 BST, all the time the URL was some 2 pixel picture. And yes I did keep refreshing the Cache, perhaps my ISP didn't, but no joy for this PARIS watcher

[Anonymous Coward]

It can be used to track the kids

I like it, it can be used to track the old and kids so the parent wont worry any more. I tried Glympse from http://cellphonetrackers.org/best-free-cell-phone-tracker-software-glympse.html but you need a mobile phone, lol.