XABEN1

(eXtreme Altitude Balloon Experiment No 1)

Launch Just after 1pm Saturday 3rd Feb 2006 - a clear sky and low Jet-stream

Just after launch - Churchill College Cambridge 

4mins - 2,800ft (850m)

6mins - 4,200ft (1.3Km)

9mins - 6,250ft (1.9Km)

10mins - 7,000ft (2.1Km)

12mins - 8,300ft (2.5Km)

14mins -  9,800ft (3Km)

17mins -  11,800ft (3.6Km)

   20mins - 13,900ft (4.1Km)

21mins - 14,600ft (4.5Km)

40mins - 27,800ft (8.5Km)

48mins - 33,400ft (10.2Km) Harwich, Clacton and Mersea Island

49mins - 34,000ft (10.4Km) Thames Estuary and Foulness left

57mins - 39,600ft (12.1Km) Grafham Water and Huntingdon

59mins - 41,000ft (12,5Km)

62mins - 43,000ft (13.1Km) - NE Norfolk Coast and Norwich left

67mins - 46,600ft (14.2Km)

71mins - 49,300ft (15Km) - North Norfolk Coast

72mins - 50,000ft (15.2Km) Thames Estuary with Dungeness in distance.

73mins - 50,700ft (15.4km) The Thames and South coast

77mins - 53,500ft (16.3Km) The wash and Bedford river

79mins - 54,900ft (16.7Km)

81mins - 56,300ft (17.2Km) Thames Estuary - Dover (left) and French coast beyond.  Airplane vapor trail from above.

82mins - 57,000ft (17.4Km) Harwich/Felixstow bottom right. Orford Ness Centre

91mins - 63,000ft (19,3Km)

98mins - 68,000ft (20.8Km) North Norfolk Coast

104mins -  72,300ft (22Km)   ????

107mins - 74,300ft (22.7km)

110mins - 76,500ft (23.3km)

Apogee - 113min - 78,500ft (24km)