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AirSlicer 1 We came up with the name AirSlicer before our first launch. As we were researching and building it, Vanessa came up with the name AirSlicer and we've used it ever since.   Our first flight was a styrofoam box that we launched from the Marriott Ranch in Virginia.  We launched August 10,  2014 at 11:20 A.M. It landed at 2:29 P.M. in a cornfield just outside Culpeper Virginia. We had a number of problems with the first flight. The prediction we ran was about 40 minutes. The prediction we ran was for an hour before we actually launched,...

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