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First of all

All my gratefulness in the first place to my three loves: my son Nicolas my daughter Aldana and my wife Karina. I Wish to thank their patience during the countless hours that I spent in front of the PC or in a library, for this project.

Technical helpers:

To make possible a project like StratoCats is only possible with the right tools. They are:

Araneae - v5.00 Beta: a very simple HTML text oriented editor, developed by Mark McIntyre and available at: http://www.ornj.net/software/araneae/

BK ReplaceEm - v2.0: a little piece of wonderfull software to make massive replacements. Plenty of usefull options it was developed by Bill Klein and is available at: http://www.orbit.org/replace/

CSVed: a little but very powerfull program that allows to edit CSV files. It was created by Sam Francke and is available at: http://home.hccnet.nl/s.j.francke/software/software.htm

Irfan View - v3.97: an excelent image manager with basic edition options. Developed by Irfan Skiljan and ready for download at: http://www.irfanview.com/

Nailer - v1.0: a very usefull and simple Thumbnails generator, created by Fahim Farook and available at: http://www.farook.org/Nailer.htm

PPWIZARD this is StratoCat's heart. An HTML pre-processor very powerfull that allows to develope "dynamical" sites without using PHP or ASP. Created and mantained by Dennis Bareis at http://users.cyberone.com.au/dbareis/ppwizard.htm

I wish to thank also to Jim Unroe who helped me a lot in my beginnings with PPWIZARD and the webmasters of the dissapeared site W3aeiou whom with their ideas about usability influenced a lot the text oriented design of the site.

My special gratefulness by its vital contribution to the project, for:

Doris "Archangel" J. Morris, librarian of the Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA) in Wallops, USA by its incredible collaboration. If it had not been by its aid -that allowed me to obtain key data for my research- StratoCat would not exist.

Bob Redinger, balloonist, NSBF's meteorologist and mainly a friend in the distance. Its contribution and knowledge is fundamental for the development of this site as well his patience to answer all my questions.

Marcelo Salvia, from ZERO ORBITAL wich provide us with highly professional map's of balloon's flight paths reconstructed from original GPS records.

Leslie Forehand and Sonja Stevenson, of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) library. They sent to me by mail copies of several NCAR's publications that allowed me to fill several information "gaps", besides to cause that the mailman of my district hates my.

To Alejandro "Dios!" Agostinelli , by their support to the idea behind this site.

To Diego Zúñiga captain of La Nave de los Locos (Fool's ship) and a great friend of mine.

To Vicente Juan Ballester-Olmos, by its disinterested cession of a chapter of a book he wrote "Expedientes Insólitos" and by its constant contribution to the project.

Who contributed with material, knowledge and links to StratoCat?

In this section are included, divided by countries and in alphabetical order, all the people and institutions that helped us in a way or other, including those websites that linked us. Believe it or not, remeber it or not, but, if your name appear in this list, you had contributed in a way or another to this project.

Buscadores que nos enlazan


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Germany Germany

Andorra Andorra

  • Jesus Serrano

Argentina Argentina

Australia Australia

Bolivia Bolivia

Brazil Brazil

Canada Canada

Chile Chile

Ecuador Ecuador

Estados Unidos United States

Spain Spain

Finland Finland

France France

United Kingdom United Kingdom

India India

Italy Italy

Japan Japan

Mexico México

Norway Norway

Portugal Portugal

Puerto Rico Puerto Rico

Southafrica Southafrica

Sweden Sweden

Switzerland Switzerland

Uruguay Uruguay

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