Remains of the departed can circle the Earth forever under a new service called Aerial Tribute based in Boulder, Colorado, that offers a slightly different approach to spreading ashes from an aircraft.Company founder Marc Arnold developed new technology to release remains quickly in a "puff" from his Stemme S10-VT glider while circling in strong ther-mals above 14,000 feet generated by the Rocky Mountains."The [remains] outclimb the sailplane, typically at more than 1,000 feet per minute, as the plane continues circling in the thermal," Arnold said. "We would not claim that all the ashes remain airborne forever, yet some of the finest particles certainly ride the updraft through the tropopause and into the upper altitudes.
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