The Soldersmoke blog referenced a post about a really cool missile tracking helical antenna. Soldersmoke reference to EI7GL's writeup of the antenna. The specificity of the plaque down to the Marker Number reminded that the gang, my partner, and I had visited the White Sands Missile Range outdoor missile museum back in 2017 . Glancing through my pictures to see if we'd taken a look at the antenna, I came across this doozy which had this plaque on display in front of it I'm just saying here: when you have to start out with the sentence, "Not a flying saucer" and then follow up later with "action was initiated to start the vehicle spinning for stability" and then offhandedly mention that the vehicle traveled at 1.2 times the speed of sound before firing an explosive charge at apogee... ahem... Not a flying saucer indeed, but you know, totally a flying saucer :) Here's the entire plaque text: " Balloon Launched Decelerator Test Vehicle Not a f...