Our plane is nearly done

For those of you who don’t know, Marzouq, Khalid, Bader and myself will be participating in this years Red Bull Flugtag which will be held at Marina Waves next month. Our team is called Imperial27 and we are planning to kick some major ass.

Our plane should have been done by now but getting stuff cleared from customs in Kuwait is really a big hassle specially since its Ramadan now. Well the guys (Khalid actually) managed to clear two boxes a couple of days ago which contained some parts we needed for the plane. We ordered them from Renault which although sounds really cool the parts themselves are actually pretty boring looking, they are part of the system that will be propelling our plane off the ramp. Problem is we (cough cough Bader cough) measured one part wrong and now it won’t fit so we are trying to find a solution. Once everything is sorted and put together it should turn out pretty cool.. if our theory and calculations turn out to be right that is.

The Imperial27 website is also nearly done and should be ready by next week. It will be located at www.imperial27.com and we will launch the site by revealing our plane there so in case we couldn’t finish putting our plane together by then we will have to push back the launch of the site. We are also trying to see if we could do a live broadcast of the revealing but we have some minor glitches that we need to work out. Anyway will keep everyone posted with any updates.


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  1. AMQ says:

    I SO CANT WAIT!!!! i want to see it now.
    right now.
    renault makes planes?

  2. Mark says:

    AMQ, no they don’t make planes. The parts we ordered are used in cars but we are using them for the launch section of the plane. Its a sort of a kludge..

  3. Lexicon says:

    is that a macbook in the back?

  4. Marzouq says:

    Crash landing for sure… who’s got insurance?

  5. AMQ says:

    oooh alright now i see…inshallah u guys win! i m rooting for ur team go team 2:48! sorry i meant team Imperial27!

  6. JBB says:

    a live coverage will real be helpful b/c i’m gonna be in the states at that point

  7. Mark says:

    Lexicon I think its an ibook box, cuz the picture is at K’s and Nibaqs place and nibaq has a iBook.

  8. Lexicon says:

    ohh…the fasting has got to me..i thought u would somehow embed the mac into the plane..my bad

  9. EXzombie says:

    need any help in filming the live broadcast…..?!?!

  10. Linus says:

    Awesome! What date is it gonna be ?

  11. well, I wish you all the luck.
    Cant wait to watch you guys on TV.

  12. Fonzy says:

    will be there to watch!! looking forward to see the end result! good luck

  13. MacaholiQ8 says:

    Your gadgets won’t help. Quit while you still can. :P

  14. zahed says:

    werent you guys suppose to call it ABNE

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