**Blimp launch information** (and new banner photo)

[hillertexas]

tracking number for the UPS package?

+1

 

[Menthol Patch]

BS, the Tea Party weekend and the blimp were two totally separate ideas conceived at two different times. Then one day someone said "hey, wouldn't it be cool if we could have the blimp in Boston for the tea party weekend.?"

No, it is absolutely true. The blimp would bring a ton of publicity to the Tea Party. That is the main reason I supported it in the first place!

 

[Lacrosseus]

Lacrosseus, how big of a staff do most of the projects you work on have and how much money do they make? When is the last time you started a business and managed a $400,000 project and got it off the ground 3 days-2 weeks after you were hired?

That's what we are talking about here.

1. I would never have committed to get a project off the ground in 3 weeks plus two days unless I had done the due diligence in advance to know I could do it. I do not make amateurish mistakes and would risk losing my certification if I did so.

2. Most projects are valued by how much money they save compared to how much they cost -- as opposed to how much profit they will make. But it is typical for projects I manage to have cost savings in the millions of dollars over a 3 to 5 year period. The last start-up I managed was a transportation company in Asia -- started operations in 2003 and was the largest carrier in the region by 2005.

3. Most of my projects currently under my control are well over a million dollars and have project teams of 10 - 25 members.

4. The blimp project is a relatively small and simple project. It has only run into problems because of poor planning -- and problems always make a project look bigger than it is.

 

[Menthol Patch]

Feel free to do research but I think it unlikely. Also, there is no hangar in Boston.

You don't need a hangar. You could deflate the blimp, drive it to boston on flatbed truck, tether it to the ground with VERY strong cords, and then inflate it again!

 

[DeadtoSin]

Yeah..so apparently you should be in control of the blimp, and not its experienced owners and pilots.

 

[UtahApocalypse]

McKarnin,

I'm going to go do some research on helium prices and safety. Please stay up if you can so we can get a helium fundraiser going if we need to! Seriously, the blimp needs to be in Boston even if it has to be deflated.

Let me get this straight.... this company completely bungled and lied about this and now your expecting people to donate MORE money??

LMAO that's pathetic

 

[Mckarnin]

1. I would never have committed to get a project off the ground in 3 weeks plus two days unless I had done the due diligence in advance to know I could do it. I do not make amateurish mistakes and would risk losing my certification if I did so.

2. Most projects are valued by how much money they save compared to how much they cost -- as opposed to how much profit they will make. But it is typical for projects I manage to have cost savings in the millions of dollars over a 3 to 5 year period. The last start-up I managed was a transportation company in Asia -- started operations in 2003 and was the largest carrier in the region by 2005.

3. Most of my projects currently under my control are well over a million dollars and have project teams of 10 - 25 members.

4. The blimp project is a relatively small and simple project. It has only run into problems because of poor planning -- and problems always make a project look bigger than it is.

Sorry for being snippy. I just think we deserve a little more slack considering that we are attempting to make grassroots dreams a reality in the business world. I am not an expert on money saved so would a $400,000 blimp advertising campaign generating millions of dollars in publicity be considered a cost saving project?

I agree that problems make a task seem larger. It was hard to anticipate all the problems we could encounter as we were doing many unprecidented things at once. Next time I get involved with a blimp I'll be better informed.

 

[Ethek]

You don't need a hangar. You could deflate the blimp, drive it to boston on flatbed truck, tether it to the ground with VERY strong cords, and then inflate it again!

Sounds easy, but you'd need logistics arranged for a wide load truck, helium to re-inflate and the normal fuel and water train that follows the blimp.

 

[JordanL]

You don't need a hangar. You could deflate the blimp, drive it to boston on flatbed truck, tether it to the ground with VERY strong cords, and then inflate it again!

We did not buy the blimp, we leased it. If I were the blimp owner, I would refuse to let someone who payed me $200,000 for a lease do something that ran a high risk of damaging or destroying my multi-million dollar piece of equipment simply because they "really wanted to".

Not everything is up to the RP people.

 

[Menthol Patch]

http://www.praxair.com/ is a supplier of helium.

http://www.praxair.com/praxair.nsf/...RLMenuBranch=A5076FB3590648758525709E0067319C

 

[Menthol Patch]

We did not buy the blimp, we leased it. If I were the blimp owner, I would refuse to let someone who payed me $200,000 for a lease do something that ran a high risk of damaging or destroying my multi-million dollar piece of equipment simply because they "really wanted to".

Not everything is up to the RP people.

They deflate the blimp a couple of times a year. I don't see any reason why it would be harmful to deflate the blimp and reinflate it.

 

[Menthol Patch]

Sounds easy, but you'd need logistics arranged for a wide load truck, helium to re-inflate and the normal fuel and water train that follows the blimp.

The wide load truck and the helium are the two things we would need to get. They already have plans to be in Boston so the fuel and water train are already setup.

 

[dmspilot00]

You don't need a hangar. You could deflate the blimp, drive it to boston on flatbed truck, tether it to the ground with VERY strong cords, and then inflate it again!

It is highly unlikely that they will deflate it and inflate it again even if they had the money and a source for that much helium. It's a complicated process. We are talking about a blimp not a hot air balloon.

 

[ronpaulblogsdotcom]

Welcome to my ignore list "Menthol Patch"

 

[Mckarnin]

+1

I can probably get that tommorow but by then we should have the banner.

 

[erin moore]

this should be easy

ups tracking number.....

+1

well??

 

[speciallyblend]

thanks everyone and im crossing my fingers the blimp can get to boston

 

[gecko42]

wow you're rude

1. I would never have committed to get a project off the ground in 3 weeks plus two days unless I had done the due diligence in advance to know I could do it. I do not make amateurish mistakes and would risk losing my certification if I did so.

2. Most projects are valued by how much money they save compared to how much they cost -- as opposed to how much profit they will make. But it is typical for projects I manage to have cost savings in the millions of dollars over a 3 to 5 year period. The last start-up I managed was a transportation company in Asia -- started operations in 2003 and was the largest carrier in the region by 2005.

3. Most of my projects currently under my control are well over a million dollars and have project teams of 10 - 25 members.

4. The blimp project is a relatively small and simple project. It has only run into problems because of poor planning -- and problems always make a project look bigger than it is.

This is not simple, they are doing something that usually takes months in weeks. The blimp people don't owe you any apologies. They don't have control over the vendor for the blimp that they are renting. Why don't you do your own project for Ron Paul and show us all how it's done?

 

[Menthol Patch]

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[ronpaulblogsdotcom]

Ok this is getting crazy. I would never post a ups tracking number for anything important in a public forum.

I hope the staff does not feel the need to and hope they don't do it. Do you honestly think they are lying? Well if so I guess you just have to wait. I am sure they will post picks of the shipment, the box it came in, and the guy(s) that deliver it just so you feel better.