On Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:33:26 -0500, cavelamb
wrote:

http://www.projectjennifer.at/

If you get a chance to see this, don't miss it. The engineering of the
lift system is mind blowing.
Dave

Watched it last week - or tried to.
Would have been fine as a 1 hour show.
Boring as all get-out for two hours.

Well, I didn't think so. As an exercise in raw engineering talent, I
thought it was a totally amazing tale. Sort of like going to the moon,
except doing it on a 4 year deadline.

The floating gimbal mechanism and its associated air cushioning to
stabilize the drill pipe was incredible along with all the control
systems engineering. This stuff is very difficult to
do....particularly on a scale like that.
Dave