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Boy Did My Daughter Surprise Me Chapter 10
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Chapter 10
I could feel every heartbeat in my throbbing dick as she stood and stared at it, wondering what she was going to do next. 'Daddy, you awake?" I heard her say right before I heard the shutter sound from her camera, then another. I eased one eye open to see her head only inches from my dick, holding her camera out with one arm she continued to take pictures. By now my dick was standing straight up in the air throbbing. I watched as she positioned herself on her knees by the couch, holding the camera above my chest she opened her mouth and held it only inches from the head of my dick and started taking more pictures. After taking a few more she stood and walked back to her room.
I laid there wanting to get up and see what she was doing with the pictures, was she going to send them to her admirer or post them on her thread? As I started to get up and see I heard her walking back toward me so I closed my eyes again. "What if he wakes up? Yeah its still hard, it looks bigger now that it did earlier." I realized she was on the phone with someone. "Hold on I have to lay the phone down. Yeah Im gonna take pictures. You awake daddy?" I decided not to peek this time in fear of her seeing me so I laid there my heart racing. I heard her lay her phone on the floor, I knew she had to be on her knees again. My heart almost stopped when I felt her hand wrap around my throbbing dick, I heard the camera shutter a few times and she removed her hand. "Yeah I did it. You think so? If he wakes up im gonna be in a lot of trouble, I cant believe im doing this. Hold on." The phone hit the floor again. She wasted no time, I felf her hand back on my dick again but no pictures. She was moving her hand up and down stroking my dick when I felt her wet lips on my dick, then she let her grip go and her lips slowly slid down around my dick. She took about half of my dick in her mouth and I heard her camera begin to shutter and continue to shutter as she slowly slid her lips back up my dick until she let if fall from her mouth. "I cant believe I just did that! No I couldn't get it all in. Don't worry ill have them on there in a minute." I heard her go back to her room.
After laying there stroking my dick for a while I decided to get up and see what she had done with the pictures. Wasting no time I went straight to her thread which had two pages added to it since the last time I looked, seems she is very popular on the forum. I started reading where I had left off last time and actually paying attention, she had been on the forum pretty consistently. I saw one from someone named "amialay" telling her she couldn't wait to spend some more time with her, after a few more I figured out it was her friend Emily. She had added some of the pictures she had sent me throughout the day and got one hell of a response and all kinds of requests, she continued to answer her comments and post more pictures trying to fill the requests. I noticed a lot of people wanted to see her sucking a dick, she answered them telling them she would take some later when her boyfriend got home from work. I clicked on the last page to see the first post was a collection of pictures of her hand wrapped around my dick she had taken earlier, with a promise of some of her sucking the big dick later. The first response was from Emily saying how she hoped she could talk her boyfriend into letting her do that someday, she replied that she may have the chance this weekend. Posts stared pouring in commenting on her and the nice dick she had in her hand until she posted the next time showing her sucking my dick, she had to have taken thirty pictures or more. Emily quickly replied on how she was a dirty little girl and how she was jealous. Before I realized it I was about to cum from stroking my dick while looking at the pictures, with nothing to cum on I laid back and shot my load all over my stomach and chest. After milking the last of my cum from my throbbing dick I had to reply to her pictures. "I knew you were a dirty girl but I never would have guessed you were that brave!"
With that said I opened my email to find she had sent two emails tonight.
"Hey sexy, I took you some pics tonight hope you enjoy them im feeling pretty naughty tonight."
I opened the pictures to find her on the kitchen cabinet spreading her legs wide showing her slick pussy, then one of her standing in the front door with it open with her ass toward the road for people to see. I quickly started stroking my cum covered dick again as I open the rest of the pictures of her naked throughout the house and continued stroking as I opened the second one.
"Im back! Damn im horny just took some pics of my daddys dick I think it gets bigger every time I see it! I hope these are what you had in mind."
There were the pictures of her with my dick in her face, and some of her on her bed playing with her wet pussy. The last one was one of her sucking her juices from her fingers. As I clicked through the pictures again she sent another email.
"So did you like the pics of me sucking daddys dick while he was asleep? My friend dared me to do it. That is the biggest dick I have ever sucked, I cant believe he didn't wake up I wish I could see him cum. You never know your daughter might be sucking yours while your asleep too."
"You are very brave, what would you have done if he woke up? You keep doing stuff like that he might catch you and put that big dick in that pretty little virgin pussy of yours. Keep it up I love the pictures."
"I don't know what I would have done I guess anything he wanted me to. Me and my friend have been talking about trying to get him to take our cherry on our birthdays but I cant get up nerve to ask him. She is coming over this weekend we will take you some good pics, she wants to try to suck his dick while he is asleep too. Got to go to bed."
I looked back through the pictures of my dick in her mouth as I stroked faster trying pump load two from my balls, after blowing it on my stomach I leaned back in my chair and watched as my limping dick kept leaking cum. Waking in my chair later I went strait to bed..
The next morning I woke and took a shower, going to her room as normal I decided to stay undressed just to keep things going. On my way to her room I noticed she was running late. When I stepped into her room she was pulling a pair of tan shorts across her bare ass. "I bet you drive the boys at school crazy walking around in those shorts without any panties on, don't you." I said as she turned facing me leaving the zipper and button open showing her slick mound. "I don't care about them immature boys but the girls at cheerleading sure like to look. I catch them looking all the time." she repied as she pulled her shirt over her head holding it up with her elbows as she fastened her shorts while she stared at my limp dick hanging in front of me. "Youre starting to like this new clothing optional stuff huh!" she said still looking at my dick. "It is pretty nice, I'm glad you are mature enough to be comfortable with it." I replied. "Don't feel bad I like it too, after all I'm not a little girl any more and besides I think it has brought us even closer to each other if that is possible." "Well you know I love you and will always be here for you." I held my arms out and she fell between them wrapping her arms around me. We stood there hugging as we heard her bus honk the horn, she leans back in my arms "Guess your taking me to school today". I told her to hurry up while I got dressed and went to finish dressing.
As I drove her to school thoughts of everything that has happened controlled my mind, it was hard not to tell her it was me she had been sending the pictures to but I didn't want to ruin a good thing. About halfway there she asked me "Daddy I need to ask you something. Do you think its bad I am still a virgin?" that was all I needed for my semi hard cock to turn stiff. "No, I think its good, why." I replied. "Some of the girls on the squad give me a hard time about it because they are always doing it with guys at school." she answered. I told her she could wait as long as she wanted to, she needed to make sure whoever she decided to lose her virginity loved her because it was a special thing. I also told her that didn't mean she had to be a prude, if she sexual desires there were things she could do for them without having sex. That was when she said "Its not like I don't know about sex, I have fooled around with some boys and girls for that matter. I just want the first time to be with someone who will appreciate it, and know what they are doing." "Its ok honey, don't rush it you will know when you find that special person. I think he would be a very lucky person, I would give anything to have a chance with a young sexy girl like yourself." I answered. She sat and looked me in the eyes and said "Daddy I love you and I have a feeling you will have that chance someday, all my friends think you are sexy they would probly do it you would especially Emily. She talks about seeing you naked all the time." we pulled up to the school she thrower her arms around me and gave me a big kiss on the cheek "I love you daddy and I know you love me." released her hug and exited the car. I watched her ass shake in her shorts as she walked to the door and went to work.
"I love you daddy and I know you love me" kept going through my head all day. I was eating lunch when my phone rang, it was Amber reminding me thar Emily was wanting to stay over this weekend and if it was ok. I told her it was and I would pick them up after practice.
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Hee hee: Kenya has LOST her Girlish Figure (and you know what that means!)
The Kenya Bean is "in the family way"...
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Ah...yes... indeed. Kenya is pregnant!!!!! :D
Just take a look:
The poor girl. She waddles now (how I empathize!). Oh, excuse me.... well... ah... I suppose I should say, rather, she sashays (she's got that preggars sway down cold).
Formally known as "wiggle butt," DH now calls her "waddle butt" (good thing DH never called me that when I was pregnant; he'd have been in deep doodoo, and not the puppy kind!). And waddle she does, wherever she goes.
She's developed "jugs" too (as we call them here). They seemed to blossom overnight -- no warning -- just poof and they were there!
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- Reikigirl22 said...
That is sooo exciting! Congrats to all of you Kenya especially :)....good luck with the birthing! I know nothing about doggies having puppies...except the obvious!
Please post pics as soon as you can.
Warmest regards to u all.
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- Charlene said...
I'm so excited to hear about Kenya. I miss your postings. I hope you're feeling better. I'll be praying that all goes well for Kenya, the pups and you.
- Kristi said...
How exciting! Little puppies! And a little boy I know pointed at a cat who had "jugs" like that and said "Look, mama! You can see her milk servers!" So now we all call them milk servers.
I hope Kenya has a drama-free delivery and everything goes well for all. - 7:55 PM
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I'm tooo excited to sleep! Puppies are better than Disneyland! Hugs to you and the gang!
- L^2 said...
Wow, congratulations and good luck to you all! As always, I'm looking forward to hearing all about this new litter's progress.
So glad to have you back! I pray that all goes well with Kenya's first litter and that you have many happy, healthy puppies!
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Westar's $50 million rate increase gets approved (Wichita Eagle, April 18, 2012)
$325M Westar project to help environment (Lawrence Journal World, March 24, 2012)
State board proposes cut in Westar Energy's rates (Lawrence Journal World, Jan. 6, 2012)
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The works of "Puppetoon" creator and special effects wizard George Pal are perhaps best seen separately and in toto rather than lumped together in fragmentary form. The Fantasy Film Worlds of George Pal contains an abundance of enjoyable film clips, but most are far too short for the audience to fully appreciate Pal's cinematic contributions. The narration suffers from banality, while the overall pacing of the documentary is lumpy...more
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Arnulf I, Count of Flanders
Arnulf I, Count of Flanders | |
Spouse(s) | Adele of Vermandois |
Noble family | House of Flanders |
Father | Baldwin II of Flanders |
Mother | Ælfthryth of Wessex |
Born | c. 890 |
Died | 28 March 965 |
Arnulf of Flanders (c. 890 – March 28, 965), called the Great, was the first Count of Flanders, who ruled the County of Flanders, an area that is now northwestern Belgium and southwestern Netherlands.
Arnulf was the son of margrave Baldwin II of Flanders and Ælfthryth of Wessex, daughter of Alfred the Great.[1] Through his mother he was a descendant of the Anglo-Saxon kings of England, and through his father, a descendant of Charlemagne.[2] Presumably Arnulf was named after Saint Arnulf of Metz, a progenitor of the Carolingian dynasty.[3]
At the death of their father in 918, Arnulf became Count of Flanders while his brother Adeloft or Adelolf succeeded to the County of Boulogne.[1] However, in 933 Adeloft died, and Arnulf took the countship of Boulogne for himself, but later conveyed it to his nephew, Arnulf II.[4]
Arnulf I greatly expanded Flemish rule to the south, taking all or part of Artois, Ponthieu, Amiens, and Ostrevent. He exploited the conflicts between Charles the Simple and Robert I of France, and later those between Louis IV and his barons.
In his southern expansion Arnulf inevitably had conflict with the Normans, who were trying to secure their northern frontier. This led to the 942 murder of the Duke of Normandy, William Longsword, at the hands of Arnulf's men.[5] The Viking threat was receding during the later years of Arnulf's life, and he turned his attentions to the reform of the Flemish government.
The name of Arnulf's first wife is unknown but he had at least one daughter by her:[6]
- Name unknown; married Isaac of Cambrai. Their son Arnulf succeeded his father as Count of Cambrai.[6]
In 934 he married Adele of Vermandois, daughter of Herbert II of Vermandois.[1] Their children were:
- Hildegarde, born c. 934, died 990; she married Dirk II, Count of Holland. It is uncertain whether she is his daughter by his first or second wife.[6]
- Liutgard, born in 935, died in 962; married Wichmann IV, Count of Hamaland.[1]
- Egbert, died 953.[1]
- Baldwin III of Flanders (c. 940 – 962), married Mathilde of Saxony († 1008), daughter of Hermann Billung.[1]
- Elftrude; married Siegfried, Count of Guînes.[1]
He is a direct patrilineal ancestor of Anne Boleyn, 2nd wife of King Henry VIII, and mother of Queen Elizabeth I.
Arnulf made his eldest son and heir Baldwin III of Flanders co-ruler in 958, but Baldwin died untimely in 962, so Arnulf was succeeded by Baldwin's infant son, Arnulf II of Flanders.[1]
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- ^ a b c d e f g h Detlev Schwennicke, Europäische Stammtafeln: Stammtafeln zur Geschichte der Europäischen Staaten, Neue Folge, Band II (Verlag von J. A. Stargardt, Marburg, Germany, 1984), Tafel 5
- ^ The Annals of Flodoard of Reims, 919–966, ed. Steven Fanning & Bernard S. Bachrach (University of Toronto Press, CA, 2011), p. xx
- ^ Philip Grierson, 'The Relations between England and Flanders before the Norman Conquest', Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, Vol. 23 (1941), p. 86 n. 1
- ^ Renée Nip, 'The Political Relations between England and Flanders (1066–1128)', Anglo-Norman Studies 21: Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1998, ed. Christopher Harper-Bill (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, UK, 1999), p. 150
- ^ David Nicholas, Medieval Flanders (Longman Group UK Limited, London, 1992), p. 40
- ^ a b c Heather J. Tanner, Families, Friends and Allies: Boulogne and Politics in Northern France and England, C.879–1160 (Brill, Leiden, Netherlands, 2004) p. 55 n. 143
Additional references[edit]
- Folcwine
- Lambert of Ardres
- Platts, Beryl. The Scottish Hazard: Flemish Nobility and their Impact on Scotland, 1985
Preceded by Baldwin II |
Count of Flanders 918–965 with Baldwin III (958–962) |
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Preceded by Adalolphe |
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'SA can boost our F&L market diversification efforts' – Rishad
The fifth International Footwear and Leather Fair organised by the Export Development Board under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce Lanka concluded successfully on 10 February, with the distinguished patronage of Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa, joined by Namal Rajapaksa (MP).
President Mahinda Rajapaksa joined by Namal Rajapaksa MP also personally distributed awards to many Lankan Footwear and Leather achievers during the afternoon event. The three day fair drew strong local crowds as well as exhibitors, participants and international industry reps from India, Jordan, Poland, and Bangladesh. Sri Lanka's SME F&L sector found many promising promotional opportunities during this event.
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At the 10 February event, Sri Lanka also expressed its positioning of developing leather and footwear market linkages with its booming neighbourhood-the South Asian region. "We believe that getting closer to South Asia, which is the second fastest economic growth region in the world, at present, can help us to source the much needed footwear and leather sector foreign direct investments easily to expand the sector beyond current export levels of, 31 million dollars" said Rishad Bathiudeen, Minister of Industry and Commerce of Sri Lanka addressing the event.
"Your Excellency, I am pleased to inform yourself that this year's international show and fashion event ending today have brought a tremendous response from local and international participants & delegations thereby providing ample proof that your committed vision to achieve $ 20 Bn exports by year 2020 through export diversification is on track, despite the challenging international market outlook," Minister Bathiudeen added.
Over two hundred Lankan and Foreign exhibitors have become keen promoters of this three day event, of which the organiser is the Export Development Board assisted by the Industrial Development Board.
"The Jordanian delegation, the strongest international team to attend this year, has already commenced negotiations with some selected Sri Lankan suppliers. The other top international delegations are from Poland and Nigeria. Strong South Asian participation is seen. That is, participants from India and Bangladesh are displaying a better raw material base than last year" revealed Minister Bathiudeen.
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Free Beer & Hot Wings: Jimmy Fallon and Anne Hathaway Sing Broadway Versions of Rap Hits [Video]
Jimmy Fallon continues to make himself more and more relevant as the new host of "The Tonight Show."
Since he took over for Jay Leno a while back, he's done an incredible job of pumping out viral video after viral video.
In his latest, Fallon and guest Anne Hathaway covered rap hits from Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent and Kendrick Lamar, but in the style of old-time Broadway.
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A self-proclaimed artist and genius who has elevated his drab existence into a personal mythology organizes his final party, a living wake, in director Sol Tryon's absurdist black comedy. K. Roth Binew (Mike O'Connell) is about to live his last day. Abandoned by his father (Jim Gaffigan) as a young lad, Binew was raised...more
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Not all of us plan on getting divorced, or even married, but most of us assume that we'll make it to retirement. Reflecting on the two personal finance issues of last week - the House of lords ruling on divorce settlement and the White Paper on pensions - I'm personally more interested in the latter than the former. "What does it mean for me?" I'm sure you've been asking as well.
The truth is that it doesn't mean that much to me. It's now 30 years since we managed to achieve a cross-party consensus on pensions. The two politicians concerned were Norman Fowler and Barbara Castle, figures from, respectively, yesterday and the day before yesterday. In case you've never heard of them, Mrs Castle was a famous Labour politician and Secretary of State for Social Services (combining health and social security) and Mr Fowler was her Conservative shadow; and he went on to have responsibility for pensions in Mrs Thatcher's government.
Anyway, these two got together in the mid-1970s and agreed a scheme called the State Earnings Related Pensions Scheme, or Serps. Company pension schemes were in pretty good nick in those days, so whatever went on there was pretty uncontroversial. The new scheme was launched, and some 10 years later that very same Mr Fowler, with the Chancellor Nigel Lawson, began the long process of running down the Serps scheme and the cross-party consensus broke down, never to be re-formed.
The reason I'm exploring these pleasant historical byways is that they illustrate an important point, especially to those of us who entered the workplace just when Serps was beginning to wither, the earnings link for state pension was being abolished, and the newfangled "portable" or "private" pension schemes took off.
We all know what happened next. Deregulation, mis-selling scandals, mismanagement, mis-regulation and the complete humiliation of the British financial services industry, symbolised by the practical collapse of Equitable Life. With so much political capital to be made out of everything from the Maxwell/Mirror pensions theft to pensioner poverty, no wonder there's no political consensus.
Can you see what I'm driving at? There's still no political consensus and people are still no less wary than they ever were of the pensions providers. There's nothing to stop a new Tory government, say, starting all over again. I'll certainly be interested in paying into the new national Pension Savings Scheme, because I'm always interested in paying into different pension schemes. As the Equitable demonstrated graphically, it's best not to keep all your eggs in one basket, so the more diverse your pensions arrangements the better.
Mine consist of some old "frozen" occupational pension from past employers, various old personal pension schemes, whatever is going on with Serps, and my current money purchase scheme. None of which do I expect much return from. Despite all the tax breaks and undoubted advantages of going through 'the professionals", I still prefer to look after the bulk of my investments myself.
So, for example, when the markets tanked last week , I didn't sell my shares. If the markets tank further, then I will have no one to blame about not selling up beforehand. Likewise, I can congratulate myself for my stead nerve and patience in buying more equities now should they recover. I will not need to go on protest marches about malfeasance and incompetence because those, if they transpire, will be my own fault. I won't be asking anyone for compensation, either.
I haven't yet taken the opportunity to buy more equities, but I shall, because I still think that by the time I retire, shares will have gone up more than other assets. What I need to do is spot the bargains bobbing about. By the time I'm 68, maybe even Kazakhmys might be up on its recent highs.
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Saturday, January 26, 2008
Just The Facts, Ma'am...
"Mommy, why are we sitting here?"
"That policeman behind us wants to talk to me, honey."
"Why, Mommy?"
"I don't know, sweetie." (And really, I didn't.)
"Well, why is he just sitting in his car?"
"He's checking our license plate and making sure the car isn't stolen."
"Our car is stolen?"
"No! No, honey, it isn't. He's just making sure."
"Mommy, are you going to go to jail?"
Turns out I had rolled through a stop sign (barely, okay? I all but did a complete stop, dammit) waaay back, and then I was so busy explaining to my kids the difference between a limo and a hearse (don't ask) that I didn't see the police car following me with his lights flashing. Duh. When I finally spotted him, I pulled over thinking he needed to pass me. That's how innocent I felt. Really.
When he came to the driver's window, I felt as though I were being arrested by my teenage son Theo, as the cop looked all of 19 (which he may have been - he was an MP on an Army base). One great thing about being stopped by an MP is they sure are polite. Ma'am this, and ma'am that - hey, I may be a criminal, but I still get respect. And he let me off with a warning. I could have pinched his sweet baby cheeks, I was so grateful. But I didn't. I drove off (carefully) and made it to the commissary without being stopped again. And with the kids pointing out every single stop sign all the way there.
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Oh I just adore this post! I am quietly laughing as to not wake up my hubby next to me....yeah, I'm the one with the laptop in bed - so attractive, eh?
I really think you should have pinched his cheeks! ;)
Thanks for stoppin' by my blog today...so glad you did so that I could come by your neck of the blog world!
~melody~I once got told by a MP that I could not legally make a left in the particular spot that I had just made a left. He was very very serious about it. It was all I could do not to giggle. So cute. I bet he had to shave at least every three days. I just wanted to pinch his cheeks and tell him how proud I was of him for being so serious about his job. I refrained and he let me off with a stern warning!
ReplyDeleteYou're so lucky. I got stopped for speeding on the way home from taking my kids to say goodbye to my dying mother. Really. And got a ticket anyway. Really. And then the state trooper left me on the side of the road in hysterics while other cars whizzed past going much faster than I had been, and I was scared to death we'd all get killed but too hysterical to drive. That was a fun, fun day. Every time I drive past that stretch of road I think of it.
ReplyDeleteI hope you flirted at least a little.
Once, over two years ago, on the way to school, I barely tapped the car in front of me. (It caused the tiniest scratch.) But to this day, I hear from my kids about the wreck we had on the way to school, and how scary it was for them. (Scary, was me wearing something not much better than pajamas, on the side of the street, with the parade of school-bound cars going past. Pretty.)Mommy, are you going to jail?
I would have said, "Honey, I hope so, then I could get a full night's sleep with no interruptions, and some peace and quiet for 24 hours, and maybe eat a meal without having to cut up some food, and oh what a luxury would that be!"
Glad you didn't get a ticket though!
I got pulled over once with the kids in the car, for running a light. THE LIGHT WAS GREEN FOR LIKE A QUARTER OF A SECOND. I told the cop this too, that the light is so short you can't even get through it before it turns.
He let me go. I have such charm! haOh my!! That's funny. I was once pulled over but not until the police car had FOLLOWED me -- as I puttered along at a paranoid snail's pace-- for about six blocks. I pulled into the parking lot of an elementary school where my parenting class was; Stryker and Scarlett were four and two. I remember wishing very much I was not wearing my bona fide harley motorcycle jacket and boots, which I thought made me look very SUSPICIOUS.
Turns out my plates had expired!! Like four months ago. My uncle had actually given me the station wagon I was driving and I didn't even think about the tabs. The cop let me go but told me to fix that IMMEDIATELY.
Stryker was very concerned we were headed toward jail.


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Armadillo Aerospace
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Industry | Aerospace |
Founded | 2000 |
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John D. Carmack |
Products | Rocket vehicles/Space Tourism |
Revenue | Not disclosed |
Website | www.armadilloaerospace.com |
Armadillo Aerospace was an aerospace startup company based in Mesquite, Texas. Its initial goal was to build a manned suborbital spacecraft capable of space tourism, and it had also stated long-term ambitions of orbital spaceflight. The company was founded by John Carmack.[1]
On October 24, 2008, Armadillo won $350,000 by succeeding in the Level 1 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. On September 12, 2009, Armadillo won $500,000 by succeeding in Level 2 of the same challenge.[2][3][4]
In 2010, they signed an exclusive deal with Space Adventures. Armadillo Aerospace was to provide a sub-orbital rocket to fly tourists into space, while Space Adventures would sell tickets for the experience. [5][6]
In August 2013, Carmack announced that Armadillo Aerospace had been put in "hibernation mode", following setbacks including the crash of the STIG-B rocket in January 2013.[7]
In May 2014, several former employees of Armadillo Aerospace formed a new company, Exos Aerospace, which was created to carry their former company's research into reusable commercial space craft. The new company set up their operations in one of Armadillo's former facilities at the Caddo Mills Municipal Airport, in Texas.[8] Exos completed acquisition of Armadillo assets in early 2015, and intends to begin launches of the Suborbital Active Rocket with Guidance (SARGE) in 2016 from Spaceport America in New Mexico. SARGE will be an enhanced Armadillo STIG-B.[9]
Research and development principles[edit]
The company placed a strong emphasis on a rapid build and test cycle. Armadillo Aerospace designed and built more than 12 vehicles which used about 50 engine designs for over 100 rocket flights.[10] Each design had several features in common. One was the use of modern computer technologies and electronics to simplify rocket control and reduce development costs. Another was the use of liquid propellants and VTVL to facilitate short launch-to-launch times.[citation needed]
Prize competitions[edit]
X-Prize competition[edit]
The company was a competitor for the Ansari X-Prize. Armadillo's X-Prize vehicle was unorthodox among modern rockets in that instead of using stabilization fins, which complicate the design and increase drag, Armadillo used an aerodynamically unstable design, where the computer controlled jet vanes based on feedback from fibre optic gyroscopes.[citation needed] Armadillo stated a preference for simplicity and reliability over performance, which was evident in its choice[when?] of hydrogen peroxide (50% concentration in water) and methanol as a mixed monopropellant for the vehicle. A monopropellant-based engine requires only a single tank, as well as greatly simplified plumbing and other hardware.[citation needed]
Wirefly X-Prize Cup 2006[edit]
Armadillo Aerospace competed in the 2006 X PRIZE Cup. Armadillo Aerospace was the only competitor in the Lunar Lander Challenge. The company took two similar vehicles, Pixel and Texel, to the event. The vehicles narrowly failed to win the Level 1 prize, after making three dramatic attempts totalling over 5 minutes in the air,[11] finally crashing out on the final attempt. Persistent landing problems were the main cause of failure, with the undercarriage breaking several times, and landing slightly off the pad on one occasion due to guidance difficulties. These flights were a highlight of the Wirefly X-prize cup.
Quad vehicle[edit]
The quad vehicle design is pressure-fed in blow down mode from an initial pressure of 320 psi for level 1 (400 psi level 2). The roll thrusters are cross-fed by gas drawn from ullage space of the opposite tank. The vehicle is able to transfer propellant through connecting pipes between opposite tanks by controlling ullage pressures with the thrusters; this helps it balance, minimizing gas use. The main engine has two-axis thrust vectoring. The vehicle is fully computer controlled; with guidance from GPS and fiber optic gyroscopes.[citation needed]
Wirefly X-Prize Cup 2007[edit]
Armadillo Aerospace competed in the 2007 Lunar Lander Challenge event in the Wirefly X-Prize Cup 2007.
During testing one of the two Quad vehicles (named Texel) crashed on a tethered flight after a guidance problem caused the vehicle to rapidly gain altitude until 3 separate flight termination procedures were activated at approximately 20–30 feet. The vehicle fell, and the impact broke open one of the alcohol tanks and a large fireball engulfed the vehicle.[12] The vehicle was irreparably damaged, and only its sister Pixel could compete in the upcoming event. The plan was to have the first module (of the next generation modular design) compete at level 1, and have Pixel compete at level 2 challenge. [13]
In the level 1 events, Armadillo's craft MOD (actually, module #1) logged several attempts, including several successful first leg flights, but was unable to complete the return trip during any attempt.[citation needed]
On its first attempt, a clogged igniter orifice prevented ignition. On the second attempt, the first leg flight was perfect; increased guidance and control capabilities allowed the module to, in Carmack's words, 'burn the X-mark off the target pad'. The return leg was delayed slightly, because the igniter had clogged again. When the second leg was attempted, a 'hard start' cracked the graphite combustion chamber. As the vehicle was still flying, Carmack flew the crippled vehicle through the course as quickly as possible and hovered 2–3 meters above the landing pad. With only a few seconds remaining in the required flight time, the damaged combustion chamber cracked again, which caused the vehicle to tilt enough to trigger a computer abort. The vehicle performed an auto-land, but the tilt caused the module to tip over on landing after only 82 seconds in the air.[citation needed]
The second attempt began with another perfect first leg, but the return was marred by another hard start. Seeing that the engine was badly damaged (although flying), the team commanded an abort. The module landed back on the pad after only a few seconds.[citation needed]
On the final attempt, MOD suffered a violent "hard start", resulting in engine explosion. The violence of the explosion embedded a piece of the graphite chamber in the ground 64 meters from the launch pad, and ended their attempts in 2007 for the prize.[14][15]
Lunar Landing Challenge 2008[edit]
The 2008 Lunar Lander Challenge took place October 24–25 at the Las Cruces International Airport in New Mexico. Armadillo Aerospace competed for the third year but for the first time had competition, from the TrueZer0 team. Both received waivers from the FAA to fly experimental rockets.
TrueZero attempted level 1, achieved hover, then lost roll control and was aborted and crashed.
Armadillo had an unsuccessful first attempt at level 1, and landed early due to inadequate thrust. On their second attempt they completed the first leg, but the second leg was cut short by the FAA closing the flight window. The second leg was held in the afternoon, and they were able to take the Level 1 top prize of $350,000.[16]
Armadillo's attempt at the level 2 prize on October 25 was aborted due to their vehicle toppling over after the engine casing burned through due to a fuel-line problem.[citation needed]
Lunar Lander Challenge 2009[edit]
Armadillo attempted the Level 2 prize on September 12, 2009. Armadillo successfully flew both legs with their Mod vehicle, each flight lasting over 180 seconds, landing safely. However their landing accuracy was not sufficient to win the first prize, instead they won the US$500,000 second prize[2][3] while Masten Space Systems' Xoie lander won the US$1,000,000 Level 2 first prize.[17]
Rocket Racing League[edit]
In 2008, the Rocket Racing League announced that Armadillo Aerospace engines would be used in a second generation of X-Racer aircraft.[18] As of March 2010[update], the Rocket Racing League was utilizing a highly modified Velocity XL FG airframe and an Armadillo Aerospace 2,500 pound thrust liquid oxygen (LOX) and ethanol rocket engine in both the Mark-II X-Racer and Mark-III X-Racer demonstration vehicles.[19] The Rocket Racing league never got out of its early development mode, and no racing season was ever held.
Super Mod[edit]
The Super Mod reusable launch vehicle is a vertical-takeoff, vertical-landing (VTVL)[20] unmanned rocket which was developed by Armadillo in 2010-2011. It was submitted to NASA as a potential suborbital vehicle for use as a suborbital reusable launch vehicle (sRLV) under NASA's Flight Opportunities Program.[20] It added aerodynamic fairings, partially extendable landing legs with lower aerodynamic drag, and systems improvements to the basic Mod vehicle structure and systems.
In late 2010, Armadillo started development of a new, longer rocket design created for lower-drag, higher-speed high-altitude flights, which they named Stig in homage of the Top Gear driver The Stig.[21] This rocket had similar systems, motors, and component weights as the Super Mod vehicles, but was aerodynamically optimized for high-altitude flights with long 15 inches (38 cm) diameter cylindrical tanks instead of larger spherical tanks. The second flight, which took place in 2012, reached 50 miles (82 kilometers), but the recovery chute did not work as planned.[22]
The third flight took place in January 2013 and the vehicle experienced a hard landing following a parachute failure-to-deploy,[7] though the launch was good.[23]
Staff and funding[edit]
Armadillo was headed, and largely funded, by John Carmack, a developer of video games including the Doom and Quake series. During its early days, all of its employees (including Carmack) had other, full-time jobs and contributed their efforts twice weekly to Armadillo on a voluntary basis. Armadillo had a relatively small budget and was not supported by aerospace companies or agencies like NASA, ESA, or Boeing. Armadillo Aerospace publicly declared itself fully self-funded.[when?][24]
In February 2006, Carmack stated that the program to date had cost slightly over $2 million.[25] Even by the standards of X-Prize candidates, this is a low budget. Scaled Composites is estimated to have spent $25 million on its SpaceShipOne development program.
On August 8, 2006, Armadillo Aerospace announced that it had reached a sponsorship deal with NVIDIA. While details were sparse, John Carmack said, "There is a chance at this point that I may have written the last personal cheque I need to for Armadillo."[26][needs update]
In April 2008, Carmack offered an updated figure of "total cost to date, about $3.5 million". He estimated that another $2 million would be needed to achieve a manned flight to 100km using Armadillo's modular design in a "six-pack" configuration.[27]
By 2010, Armadillo had 7 full-time employees, and was profitable on ongoing operations (though Carmack was continuing to invest in development efforts).[28]
The company mascot was an armadillo named Widget.
2013 "Hibernation mode" and sale of assets[edit]
In August 2013, Carmack indicated that following the crash of the STIG-B rocket earlier that year, he had wound down the company operations and had put the company in "hibernation mode." Armadillo had stopped accepting (profitable) contract R&D work two years prior, in order to focus on development of a suborbital reusable rocket. During those two years, Armadillo operated at an approximately US$1 million per year burn rate funded personally by Carmack. Several reasons were offered for this outcome, including a failure to adopt a multi-test-vehicle build strategy, making the loss of a single rocket more significant than it would have otherwise been.[7]
As of August 2013[update], Carmack was "actively looking for outside investors to restart work on the company's rockets".[7]
In 2015 the assets of Armadillo Aerospace were sold to EXOS Aerospace Systems & Technologies, Inc.
Future research[edit]
Carmack stated in his monthly reports and in forum posts that he expected his path to an orbital vehicle to include modular rockets similar to OTRAG technology. Lutz Kayser, the founding engineer of OTRAG, visited Armadillo in May 2006 and loaned Carmack some of their original research hardware.
"I have been corresponding with Lutz for a few months now, and I have learned quite a few things. I seriously considered an OTRAG style massive-cluster-of-cheap-modules orbital design back when we had 98% peroxide (assumed to be a biprop with kerosene), and I have always considered it one of the viable routes to significant reduction in orbital launch costs. After really going over the trades and details with Lutz, I am quite convinced that this is the lowest development cost route to significant orbital capability. Eventually, reusable stages will take over, but I actually think that we can make it all the way to orbit on our current budget by following this path. The individual modules are less complicated than our current vehicles, and I am becoming more and more fond of high production methods over hand crafter prototypes." -- June 2006 Armadillo Aerospace Update[29]
U.S. suborbital spaceship signs up Russian space tourist. 11/10/2010
The U.S. Armadillo Aerospace company, which is developing the suborbital spaceship for space tourist flights, announced on Monday that a Russian has become its first confirmed passenger. St Petersburg resident Evgeny Kovalev won his ticket to the cosmos in a contest organized by Efes brewery.
See also[edit]
Gallery of CCA3 images and video Official Youtube channel |
- Alt.space
- NewSpace
- List of private spaceflight companies
- Space Fellowship – hosts the official Armadillo Aerospace Forum
- Reusable Vehicle Testing – program of the Japanese Space Agency JAXA
- Commercial Spaceflight Federation
- Blue Origin
- Blue Origin New Shepard
- McDonnell Douglas DC-X
- Lockheed Martin X-33
- VentureStar
- Masten Space Systems
- Interorbital Systems
- Quad (rocket)
- Zarya
- Kankoh-maru
- Lunar Lander Challenge
- ^ Armadillo Aerospace FAQ Archived January 3, 2012, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ a b Michaels, Patrick (September 14, 2009). "Rocket Men From Mesquite's Armadillo Aerospace Are in Line For $1 Million X Prize". Dallas Observer. Retrieved September 14, 2009.
- ^ a b Armadillo Aerospace Claim Level 2 NGLLC Prize
- ^ Lunar lander qualifies for prize Archived September 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Perhaps You'll Visit Space In Your Lifetime, After All, Gizmodo, 2010-05-12, accessed May 15, 2010.
- ^ "Space Tourism Firm to Offer Suborbital Joy Rides at Lower Costs". Retrieved September 28, 2016.
- ^ a b c d Foust, Jeff (August 1, 2013). "Carmack: Armadillo Aerospace in "hibernation mode"". NewSpace Journal. Retrieved August 6, 2013.
- ^ Armadillo Aerospace Vets Start New Space Company 2014-05-19 - Space News reports new company formed by former Armadillo employees.
- ^ Foust, Jeff (2015-05-11). "Exos Seeks To Revive Armadillo Rocket Technology". Space News. Retrieved 12 May 2015.
- ^ "Armadillo Aerospace: Scaling Up for Modularized Spaceships". Retrieved September 28, 2016.
- ^ Armadillo Aerospace - News Archive Archived March 15, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Texel crash video Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Armadillo Aerospace - News Archive[full citation needed] Archived September 28, 2007, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Carmack, John. "Armadillo Aerospace News Archive".
- ^ David, Leonard (October 28, 2007). "Armadillo Setback As Vehicle Flames Out". livescience.com.
- ^ "Armadillo rocket takes $350,000 prize". MSNBC. October 24, 2008. Archived from the original on October 28, 2008. Retrieved October 25, 2008.
- ^ "Masten and Armadillo Claim Lunar Lander Prizes". Centennial Challenges: NASA's Prize Program for the "Citizen Inventor". NASA. November 2, 2009. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
With only a few days remaining in the 2009 competition period, Masten Space Systems of Mojave, California successfully met the Level Two requirements for the Centennial Challenges — Lunar Lander Challenge and by posting the best average landing accuracy, won the first place prize of $1,000,000. The flights were conducted with their "Xoie" (XA-0.1E) vehicle on Oct. 30 at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Armadillo Aerospace, the long-time leader in Lunar Lander Challenge efforts, was the first team to qualify for the Level Two prize with successful flights on Sept. 12 in Caddo Mills, Texas. The average landing accuracy determines which teams will receive first and second place prizes. The average accuracy for Armadillo Aerospace flights was 87 cm. but the Masten team achieved an accuracy of 19 cm, moving them into first place. Armadillo Aerospace will receive the $500,000 second place prize.
- ^ Rocket Racing Archived January 6, 2009, at the Wayback Machine., August 2008
- ^ Rocket Racing League Announces Milestone Development in X-Racer, press release, 2010-03-10, accessed May 3, 2010.
- ^ a b "sRLV platforms compared". NASA. March 7, 2011. Retrieved March 10, 2011.
Super Mod: Type: VTVL/Unpiloted
- ^ Armadillo Aerospace - News Archive - Jan 22, 2011 Archived April 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Space.com report
- ^ STIG B-III mission, January 5, 2013 Archived May 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.. Armadillo Aerospace.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on June 25, 2004. Retrieved 2004-05-20.
- ^ RLV and Space Transport News » Alt.space spending
- ^ Armadillo Aerospace - News Archive Archived August 22, 2006, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Armadillo Aerospace - News Archive Archived April 11, 2008, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Armadillo Aerospace - News Archive August 10, 2010
- ^ June 2006 Armadillo Aerospace Update.
- ^ U.S. suborbital spaceship signs up Russian space tourist


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Wow, luckily don't need change my signature yet, hopefully when I eventually need to change, will be fixed so far I only use basic functions such as reading and posting replies, haven't encounter major problem except really don't like the lower resolution of my avatar
I wish the associated parental units would remove the small child from my vicinity. Admittedly child is quiet and well behaved, but...go.away. And quit trodding on my toes, and bumping into me, and my feet are not toy car roads, and quit stepping in my purse. Go.away.
I feel like the shrimp guy on Forrest Gump..."you've got your turkey and dressing, you've got your leftover turkey and dressing, you've got your turkey pizza, you've got your turkey salad sandwiches..."
Ya got yer bawled skrimp, yer steamed skrimp, yer bbq skrimp, yer skrimp stew, yer skrimp soup, yer skrimp po boys, yer skrimp kabobs ... Love that movie. And I think you should go back home ... TO GREENBOW ALABAMA!
Actually, I little bit north of there in East Tennessee. And won't be moving back that way any time soon.
Gotcha and agreed. Never going "home" to Philadelphia, PA. Loved it when I was there; love things about it now. But I ain't goin home no more no more. I just said that for emphasis. Love me some Forrest Gump. Darnit! I was going to post a picture of the Greenbow Alabama! scene (The one where Forrest yells at Jenny's abusive, loser hippie boyfriend) but that's the one screen shot that I can't find.
Some people just do not comprehend that not everybody adores their precious child. It could be worse, though. It could be an infant that they just hand you as if somehow, because you're a woman, you must be hard-wired to want to hold all random babies in your vicinity. It took my Mom decades to finally believe me that, even though I loved my own (close) child relatives** and my own child to distraction, that does not necessarily spill over into a desire to love on every baby ever born. ** I really don't think I should be required to nurture second cousin babies. Nieces and nephews? Yes, within certain parameters. Second cousins? Are you kidding me? Thank goodness the next family reunion is two years away and most of my first cousins and siblings are too old to procreate. And we've already covered my position on second cousins.
Take it as a compliment; kids know instinctively (not without excpetion) who is congruent; ie you reflect rather than hide your feelings "Granny Weatherwax personally disliked young Pewsey. She disliked all small children, which is why she got on with them so well. In Pewsey's case, she felt that no-one should be allowed to wander around in just a vest even if they were four years old. And the child had a permanently runny nose and ought to be provided with a handkerchief, or failing that, a cork." Granny Weatherwax leaned down until her impressive nose was about level with Pewsey's Gusihing one. "If you don't go away" she said gravely " I will personally rip your head off and fill it with snakes." "There said Nanny Ogg "There's lots of poor children in Klatch that'd be grateful for a curse like that." Pewsey's little face, after a second or two of uncertainty, split into a pumpkin grin. " So we have our own Granny Peachwax
Must.not.scream.at.coworker. I can deal with the off-key headphone singing and humming, but the tapping and drum-playing on the desk has got to go.
Aaaaand of course my phone decides to brick up at 3 am when I need to set an alarm so I can wake up for an exam tomorrow.
Oh yay, got phone working again. Now I can go to sleep... next phone is going to have a removable battery.
True. And, to be fair, he was actually unbelievably well-behaved the entire day. Next to me. I don't even really mind him that much. He's almost to the age when they start to become slightly interesting (which is about 4, IMO; he's 3). And, yeah, of course I keep an eye on him to make sure he doesn't...dunno...stick a car bit into an outlet or something, or wander off, or whatever. I do that with any kid in the vicinity. I mean, not wanting to hold kid != wanting to set kid on fire, or equivalent. Just because I don't dissolve into a cooing puddle at a kid... But there's something about the casual touching from kidlets that weirds me out. Get.your.hand.off.me! Stop.leaning.on.me! I.am.not.a.play.toy! It's just...creepy. Their hands are...creepy. And they tend to be sticky, which is just beyond gross. There's also the intense bug-under-a-glass thing that happens when kid is around along with family members, which is always. I get watched like a hawk for...I dunno...any sort of expression of maternal instinct or something (or perhaps just to make sure I don't set the kid on fire or similar). And lack of sufficient thrill-ed-ness in dealing with kid gets me chided...so, always. Aside from ticking me off, it really just makes me want to dig my heels in that much more. (...and now the issue of holding my niece is going roughly down the same road. This is going to become a big issue, pretty soon. It's making me very angry. And if there is anything that will (continue to?) damage my relationship with my mom, this is going to be it. Not looking forward to this fight when it happens. And it's definitely "when," not "if.")
ah Peach...I am sorry about this....from an alternate perspective...I also understand your mom on this...even though she is making a big mistake.... what I understand is that I was sooooooooooooo not into kids before I had my own....and I am still not into extra time with any that are not very near and dear to me....teaching a classroom of small children or going to chuckie cheese has me breaking out in hives or wanting a drink....I think this is true of many people....so your mom, ever wanting to have motherhood in common with you, is hoping that you are that sort of person. obviously, the issue is that not everyone has that experience and rolling the die on it is an awfully big risk for you, your dh and the potential kid....I am sure that her difficulty accepting your choice and hoping this baby would make you waver, is NOT a pleasant thing....certainly having or not having a kid shouldn't be about feeling pressured or refusing to consider it out of resentment for having been pressured....it should be about your own inner stirrings...and if they are not there for children then folks need to do a better job of managing their own dashed hopes
Oh, it's not even about me having kids or not. I don't think. I'm pretty sure they gave up on that years ago. (Things seemed to change when I turned 30.) Things now are about me being appropriately coo-y/puddle-y about the baby. And holding her. Holding her has become the current litmus test for appropriate coo-y/puddle-y tendencies. And I guarantee it's the tip of the iceberg. There are so many layers and facets of my anger and resentment right now it's not even funny. And I'm sad that this anger and resentment, which I'm desperately trying to get a handle on (and failing), is really outweighing the fact that I am happy for my brother/family. But it's kind of swamped at the moment. ...so ticked off over all of this...cannot begin to explain...seriously not joking or being dramatic when I say this has the very real potential to seriously damage my relationship to my family...which is sad...which makes me angry all over again...
well P....I wish you luck on being respected on this...and I hope that if it does come up, it is on a day when the validity of your message won't be obscured by your capacity (or lack thereof) to deliver it in a measured way...only so that it will be fairly heard ...not to spare anyone the wrath


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