Little "Puerto Godoy" Expedition

A couple of days ago, on last Saturday 5 Jan, a couple of friends, Martin and Fernando, invite me to a short trip to "Puerto Godoy" sand dunes (something like "Godoy's Port"). 

Godoy's Port, is a beautiful coastal area about 2 hours from Puerto Montt, where the wind from the open ocean made ​​huge formations of very fine sand near the beach. This sector is very remote and sparsely populated, only some families come to enjoy the beach and perform various motorsports of all kind bikes and 4x4 vehicles.

We visit this area 3 or 4 times per year to enjoy the view and he beach as to travel with our 4x4 vehicles and motorbikes over the dunes.

But this time beside to enjoy the trip as usual, I take the opportunity to collect some very fine sand samples to be use it later in our future test Traction Table. The tilt table that we are already in process to build, is going to be use it to test the traction system and other parameters of the final version of our Mini-Dandelion rover. The table is going to be of about 2x5 mt and it can be full with several tons of sand, so better to start soon the sand collection! :-)

Next a couple of pictures of the trip...

Just after leave Puerto Montt, the view is very beautiful, many farming and agricultural areas, beside that it was a very nice weather that day.

This picture shows from high the coaster area of Godoy's Port...

 Arriving to the beach....this is a open Pacific ocean area, very low population a even less tourists...

 ...here is the secret road ;-) , at some point on the beach, there is a deviation with a very small and hard route that you must follow to rich the dunes...

 ...closer...

 ...And finally!, the dunes..next some beautiful pictures of the dunes formations and views...

 ...a panoramic view..

 ...the dunes fine sand samples...

 ...minus one shovel :-) ...

We try to collect the sand from the higher ground possible  this is because the wind is always covering the higher ground areas with the finest sand produced by the erosion of the lower areas.

If the mechanical properties of this sand and close to the ones of the material on the moon, mean that it can be use it on the tests and we can go back to collect more samples

 The travel back...

 ...But not all is work!, trying to reach the higher ground for the finest sand, we enjoy the challange for the vehicles :-)

See you soon!

Team Angelicvm Summit

A couple of weeks ago, on December 18, all member of the Team Angelicvm from Concepción and Puerto Montt, travel to Santiago thanks to the invitation of Angelicvm Investments to attend to the last meeting of the year.

As always, Angelicvm and our Team Leader Gerardo, was very kind and allow us to travel all by air plain and to stay into the very nice "Grand Hyatt" hotel in Santiago.

Next a couple of pictures of the travel, the event and of the symbolical inauguration that Angelicvm do for a new terrain in which later there is going to be building the first private aerospace R&D lab in Chile and in South-america.

First, the R.E.A.L guys at the entrance of the Puerto Montt Air port

 ...Waiting on the departure gate..

...and ready to go!

 ...of course, the guys playing on the plain.....don't worry nobody gets sick :-)

We arrive to Santiago on Mon Dec. 17 This picture is just for the record, is not showing right, but is from my second level room taking a picture about 12Am of the Hotel pool, guys ask permission to use it up until 1:30AM!! :-)

Very early next day, we start our annual meeting in the "Eucaliptus" conference room of the Grand Hyatt hotel...

We can see Jorge here setting up the presentations...

Gerardo, our Team Leader, giving his presentation about the upcoming challenges of our mission and for the future of Angelicvm Investments in the aerospace area...

 The UdeC guys with a rocket model to be use it later..

From left to right: Benjamin Correa, Ugo Duran and Gerardo Rocha...

Later if was time for are leaders to present and update report....here is Mauricio presenting the update about robotics...

 ...and Dario presenting the rocketry update and plans...

 All member of the Team show up for the event, so we take the opportunity to take the official Team picture....here guys playing around...

After all presentations, updates, planning, pictures and lot of coffee and cookies :-) , we was invited to the new terrain buy it by Angelicvm investments in the "Curacavi" sector about 40min from Santiago.

In this terrain Angelicvm in planning for the next years, the first Aerospace private R&D Lab in Chile and South-America.

For this symbolic inauguration, the UdeC guys prepare a couple of model rockets to be launched..here the preparations and checking... 

...one of the rocket models...
















....and finally the launch!!!! :

...After the launches, we was invited to lunch at the "Hornitos de Curacavi" restaurant, which is a very traditional Chilean food of the central zone of the country, very traditional "Huaso" (Chilean countryman and skilled horseman) food, very nice place and delicious food.

Later the same day, we go back to the Airport for our flight to Puerto Montt leaving part of the group at Concepción first.

It was an excelent event, very nice to see all guys again all together this time, a really great opportunity to meet each other beyond the ones that we already see each other. 

An excellent organization of the event by JorgeVidal from Angelicvm Investments, we are as usual, very happy and pride to be part of this excellent team of people. 

Also many thank to Angelicvm for all the nice treatment at the hotel, traveling and restaurants.