Falcon Project Team Responds To Matt Moneymaker
A few days ago, we published an opinion by Matt Moneymaker regarding the Falcon Project. Moneymaker criticized the project and said he "sees many problems with their project". Falcon Project team members decided to respond with the following statement after reading our blog post titled, "Matt Moneymaker on Meldrum's Falcon Project: Their blimp project won't work":
In Response to Moneymaker's Critique of The Falcon Project
The members of The Falcon Project would like to thank Matt Moneymaker for all of his efforts and contribution to the Sasquatch research community over the years. Through his effort and the creation of the BFRO (Bigfoot Field Research Organization), many people have been informed of current events in this field of research. Moneymaker's dedication to the research of Sasquatch has paved the way for many, from all walks of life, to get involved; this has expanded the community of researchers. He has also generated much media attention on the topic, which has created the perfect climate into which The Falcon Project could be birthed.
Since Moneymaker’s deployment of a tethered balloon approximately 9 years ago, the technology for both airships and imaging available for such an undertaking has changed significantly. By 2010, when William Barnes (founder of The Falcon Project) began this endeavor, he was able to source out an airship and imaging system with broadcast quality much superior to what was available when the first attempts at this type of project were made.
Technology grows by leaps and bounds in just a single year. The scale and capabilities of Moneymaker's balloon were significantly different than The Falcon Project’s ambitions almost a full decade later. Even in just the two years that we have been working on this project (2010-2012), we have been witness to huge jumps in technological capabilities. Our dual airship will not be tethered, for example, and will therefore be free to traverse a significantly more substantial range of wilderness. As well, the technology (and weight of said technology) incorporated into the dual airship’s navigation and imaging systems is very different from nearly a decade ago.
Here are some specific details that show the cutting-edge specs of the dual airship that will be used for The Falcon Project. It will be a length of 45-48 feet, and the diameter of both envelopes will be approximately 9 feet at the widest point. This affords us the lifting capacity needed to carry the necessary equipment. The aerodynamic design of the airship, along with proprietary cutting-edge features, gives this UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle) stability unparalleled in the airship market today. The airship designer and maker has integrated built-in systems that create a safety standard never seen before in the field of airship development. The housing for the expensive imaging system is designed to protect it from the rough landings and unanticipated potentially damaging blows that Moneymaker aptly points out we should be aware of.
As well, the airship's propulsion is designed to eliminate the loud noise that other airship propulsion systems employ. Since it can lift off without need of a runway, there is much flexibility in the types of terrain from which we can launch. Helium management is designed for ease of use, unlike airships of the past. The airship transportation unit is equipped with all of the necessary storage for helium tanks, and we've solved the logistical challenge of fuel collection from the helium manufacturers. Also, the inflation/deflation routine is designed for easy and economical management, reusing some of the helium each time we inflate/deflate.
The imaging system has state-of-the-art, proprietary technology designed to translate what is being viewed and recorded through the lens into the extremely high-resolution data necessary for our panel of experts to interpret what we obtain as usable data and evidence. This level of filming can be conducted at a very long range, unlike any technology preceding it.
This is why William Barnes aptly named this undertaking The Falcon Project; the dual airship will assume the optical and maneuvering capabilities of a Falcon that hunts its prey from above stealthily and accurately.
Again, we'd like to thank Matt Moneymaker for offering his critique on our project and wish him the best of luck in all of his Bigfoot endeavors.
Best Wishes,
The Falcon Project Team
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ReplyDeletethere you have it folks now thats how an intelligent,educated,civilized group of people tell some one to go f**k themselves : ) a tethered balloon I mean really what a joke...
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DeleteM's just upset this thing will find it quicker than his stupid show. Hehehehe
ReplyDeleteI love the infighting! Two big wigs with different philosophies duking it out for relevance. Still no bigfoot, by the way!
DeleteHell Todd Standing will bring a few mupsquaches in before Moneymaker finds one.
DeleteThe reply failed to clarify how the blimp is going to be propelled or controlled, and the distance limits between the operator and the blimp. Will the operator also require line of sight, in order to operate it? At night, viewing a stealthy darkened blimp will be problematic. Put lights on it and it is no longer stealthy enough for the prey to not notice it over an otherwise quiet and peaceful forest. Which is a bit of a catch-22. Once one Bigman is alerted, then he telepathically alerts the others within several miles. And they in turn alert others. The blimp won't be able to fly fast enough to outrun that coconut telegraph. Bigfoot orbs can fly at several hundred MPH, and can stay right with this vehicle to notify the Bigfoot on the ground. The blimp project personnel have not a clue as to the supernatural capabilities that they are up against. And of course there is always the wind. How much wind can this blimp deal with? Due to it's profile, I would suspect maybe 5 mph tops. My experience is that in the summertime for instance, the wind blows briskly until sometime after midnight, and only calms down in the dark early morning hours. By then, due to the proximity of the operator and crew to the blimp, and due to their suspicious activity in the night forest, every bigfoot within 20 miles will have been notified and will have taken appropriate defensive tactics.
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DeleteYou actually need to listen to Blog talk radio and they discuss all that stuff.
DeleteThere are already small remote controlled "spy" planes being tested by the military which leave the controllers line of sight. GPS and on board cameras can lead it back to the controller.
DeleteI believe he will be in an airship directly above the airship whilst there will be someone else in that one controlling the other one above.
DeleteI heard that the hamster from Kia was hired to pilot the thing.
DeleteWho,Bigfoot?
DeleteWhy not.He's already riding trains.
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DeleteAnon at 9:51 beat me to it, GPS would bring the blimp back home to it's starting point, it is also a failsafe if there is a communication loss as it would default to the GPS and come back on auto.
I would agree with the voiced concerns over weather conditions though this is going to be a fair weather uav.
The 8:26 AM long reply was not Moneymaker. It is by someone that knows a lot more than Moneymaker, about the subject matter.
DeleteNo lighter than air craft will ever keep up with bigfoots on their hoverboards.
Delete10 years ago Moneymaker's team experimented with both a tethered balloon and a non-tethered remote controlled blimp platform. Both had severe limitations in the field, as documented in the series "Mysterious Encounters".
ReplyDeleteNo advancement of technology over the past 10 years will circumvent the inherent problems of balloon platform in windy conditions and uneven terrain.
The U.S. Navy has experimented with balloon technology in the past, and most recently in 2010-12 with the MZ-3A. The experimental project nearly ran out of funding (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/10/19/military-blimp-in-testing/1643997/) begging the question of whether $300,000 is enough to create an aerial platform that is, in some ways, even more sophisticated.
The cost issue leads to an obvious question: Why not simply used a small fixed-wing aircraft as a platform, as the military does so effectively, especially if so much of the budget will be absorbed by the imaging payload itself.
The hangar issue is another problem. The Navy was limited to test sites with large enough hangars to accommodate the blimp. It seems that Barnes is proposing a system that will make a storage hangar unnecessary, but the proposed system will need to be developed as well, and the cost will consume another large portion of the 300K budget.
The $300K budget for the Falcon Project is being footed by the TV network that wants to develop a show around this project. But unlike the military, the TV network is not likely to approve the massive cost overruns that will likely plague this lofty project. $300K is a whole lot for any network to put on the line up front. They're not going to throw more money at it if things don't go as planned.
DeleteYou still cant find something that isnt there. When will you wake up to the fact that there is no teapot orbiting the sun? (russells teapot that is)
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DeleteIts like you finding your penis when you look down Anon 8:51! You need a lot of zoom. It's there you just have to look closer!
DeleteThe platform will be able to fly like fixed wing aircraft. Altitude variation will be easy. It will have wings. Look at the words.
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It's 2½ inches. That's average right?
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Average for the monkey that splooged in T-Fats ear!!RAT-A-TAT-TAT.
DeleteYou're skirting the real goal of the project. It's NOT whether it actually works, whether it flies, whether it manages to do what they claim it will do. The process is the point, the point that drives the fund raising. In other words, it's a money making project that gets great attention, a TV show, advertising dollars. Just like Finding Bigfoot, nobody really cares if they actually find bigfoot, the point is in raising revenue, advertising dollars. Moneymaker (how apt) sees competition to his show on the horizon, so he has to piss on it defensively. He doesn't want to be upstaged by Meldrum.
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Delete@ Anon 8:34, I am assuming they are circumnavigating the problem of hangarage by deflating at the end of each flight and then reinflating when they fly the next time hence the mention of solving the logistics of storage and recycling of helium.
But the "process" is going to run out of money before this airship can be put to any use. The network and production company apparently doesn't foresee that issue, and they certainly won't resolve it. The Falcon Project is a money pit, but the show isn't about the money pit. The show is about what they can do or cannot do once a whole lot of money is spent far beyond the regular production costs. It's a huge gamble. Also, people who have never engineered these sorts of things tend to grossly underestimate the costs and time-line.
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DeleteI hope they build it I want to use it for target practice.
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DeleteThe one cool thing about this project is they should get some really amazing images of the natural fauna in the area. I predict some cool footage, but not of any bigfoots.
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DeleteDon't believe in Bigfoot, but can tell the future?
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ReplyDeleteUnfortunately a blimp will be grounded much of the time... I say wear a ghilley suit and camp out where Les Stroud heard the gorilla noise in Alaska. And stay there for a long time; work in shifts with others.. well you do it, I'm not leaving my warm seat and how can I honestly stop tossing back all those lovely beers over there.
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The vaunted ground team needs to make sure their wagon isn't hitched too tightly to the Falcon team, because they will need to unhitch their wagon when the Falcon crashes, or when the project finally becomes the over-budget cluster fuck that it is destined to become.
ReplyDeleteThe ground team must arrange for an alternate form of air support -- something that doesn't require any new engineering. They can simply hire an experienced Alaska bush pilot who can land on dirt roads for refueling.
An Alaskan bush plane is big enough to be outfitted with an existing police-helicopter-grade thermal imager. Additional components could transmit live video to the ground team. The DEA already does this and it works fine.
Such a system could be assembled reliably, in a predictable time-line, and for a much smaller price tag, because all the components can be rented, and delivered, and installed, and insured.
The object of the project, from the ground team's perspective, should be to have a cost-effective thermal eye-in-the-sky to help the ground team spot and track their quarry.
The object of the project, from the ground team's perspective, should NOT be to develop and build a conceptual airship ... just to make heroes or failures of Barnes and the Falcon team (i.e. the blimp designers).
The ground team will eventually want to cut ties with the Falcon Project so they can carry on with the TV show when the Falcon Project fails (when the blimp crashes).
The ground team would be fools to not provide for that scenario up front. Therefore the show itself should not be called "The Falcon Project" or have the word "Falcon" in the title. The title must be conceived so the ground team can carry on with the show even if the Falcon portion fails.
The network will agree with this approach.
I agree with you. Rent the equipment and stick it on a small plane. If Bigfoot is out there, I doubt he is going to consider a plane high above a threat and head for cover. I don't understand why Finding Bigfoot doesn't marry up with this group and blend it in to a season.
DeleteWhat a classy response...well done Falcon Project!
ReplyDeletedo you consider a air ship high above a threat, , we want to be 3000-4000ft off the ground, an we can stay in place if we need too, and if you go to my website the-falconproject.com,,,,,,,you will see no props on the airship? there are a lot things people do not know about this airship an what can do, as a plane has to come back over an over an so on, WILLIAM Barnes
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