The Landonberg: Failure to Launch
Sir Michael Anderson
December 16, 2009
Filed under News
As the crowd roars in BMC’s most recent pep rally, Project C.O.M.M.A.N.D.’s blimp (one of two) takes off, but no sooner did it get into the gym and under the fluorescent lights when disaster struck. Someone stepped on one of the blimp’s safety lines, causing it to lose the free basketball game tickets and shift its ballast. The big blimp’s first flight was a failure.
“I was emotionally distraught that it [the blimp] wasn’t operational due to its poor design,” said Nathan Adamson, a Junior who attended the rally. Apparently, though, there were far worse opinions like Junior Matthew “Chris” Gowen, who said, “I wanted to pop it [the blimp] with a dart gun.”
Despite the negative reception, there were a few good ideas, such as that of Freshman Colleen Bresette, who had the idea to use the blimp to drop not only tickets, but coupons as well, or, as Junior Zander Dalbey suggests, “…we should have a train that goes around the school with a tee-shirt cannon.”
Even though the pep rally did not go well for the blimp, it’s here to stay. It is supposed to fly at every home game. The blimp (named Big Bob by contest winner Landon Byrd) has been a major project for Tech Club, and they have worked very hard.
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To the uninformed student(s) who think the blimp was “poorly designed,” I have to say that the design was flawless. The error was that of a memeber of the basket ball team that wasn’t watching where he was going(We are not holding anything against this student, we know that it was accident and that sometimes things happen). We were all upset that we didn’t get to fly it in the pep rally but it had nothing to do with the design… and every one who wasn’t at the game that night should know that we had a very successful flight at half time, BECAUSE of the flawless design of Big Bob…
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