EDR wrote in message ...
Thanks!

I love it! Great hack -- one of the best! And a good gesture
from MIT admin to leave it all day. Gotta love the attention to
detail (the pilot figure and the FAA airworthiness certificate,
anachronism not withstanding)

Here's another link with more pics:
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2...formation.html

I see it conforms to the high engineering standards I would expect from
such time constraints.

It's not just the time. The engineering is probably pretty solid --
but its goal was to produce something which could be transported
through relatively inaccessable confined spaces in a minimal time,
set up readily by a minimal crew working in a small space at heights,
and readily secured from falling off said small space in strong
winds. Not something engineered to fly or to resemble the Wright
Bros construction.

You'd never know it from the quantity and complexity of the stuff
which gets perched up there, but the Institute does not make the
top of the Great Dome easy to access. The perpetrators didn't just
haul it up a freight elevator and push it out a hatch.

Great hack.
Sydney