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PEGASUS AND THE NORTH AMERICAN EAGLE<br />
Projects<br />
on-board telemetry can be<br />
uploaded to Azure and viewed as<br />
a time-series event. “A team of<br />
around 20 Microsoft volunteers<br />
built mobile applications on<br />
Xamarin for iOS, Android, and<br />
Windows mobile, and a website in<br />
Azure App Services.”<br />
“Since day one, people have said<br />
this project was just a little crazy,”<br />
comments Brandyn. “Perhaps<br />
that’s a bit of an understatement,<br />
yet we couldn’t agree more. It’s<br />
that very adventuring spirit that<br />
has pushed us to continue to go<br />
further, to do something few would<br />
ever dare.”<br />
Microsoft Research enabled the<br />
team to stream live telemetry to<br />
fans as the vehicle raced across<br />
the empty desert. “We were<br />
able to share over 500 million<br />
points of telemetry to over 4,500<br />
people on Jessi’s first run alone,”<br />
reveals Brandyn.<br />
“We received messages from<br />
users in Australia, New Zealand,<br />
UK, France, Norway, and the USA.<br />
One of the users watching Jessi<br />
Combs’s first run sent a message<br />
to the device with her approximate<br />
top speed before she stopped.<br />
“While we didn’t break the<br />
records we had hoped for,” says<br />
Brandyn, “what we found was a<br />
reminder of why we love racing:<br />
the undeniable rush of adrenaline<br />
when things go right, despite the<br />
setbacks along the way.”<br />
“The North American Eagle<br />
team, Ed Shadle, and Jessi Combs<br />
have pushed themselves to the<br />
limit in the race for a land speed<br />
record,” adds Matt. “In the process,<br />
they have made us all proud<br />
members of the human race.”<br />
Above The<br />
North American<br />
Eagle uses its jet<br />
engine to achieve<br />
astonishing speeds<br />
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