I did a transfer from Fidelity to TDAmeritrade and it took about two days if I remember right.

"Currently, the Company has 62,000,000 shares outstanding, and simple calculations would assess a current book value for this company, as of today, at approximately $41.93 per share. Then the sum, when multiplied by a minimum of 16,000,000 shares shorted, comes to minimum of $670,880,000. A market analyst concludes this stock may be conservatively valuated at 2x its book value ($1,341,760,000) or put another way, about 4 times greater than TD Ameritrade's last year's net profit.

Some of TD Ameritrade's clients are already requesting their stock certificates in fear that TD Ameritrade may go under. They are moving their shares to other trading houses that they believe to be less likely to short this stock."

WTH? Glad I never closed that Fidelity account, might have to transfer my GTE shares there. Nuts, I like the way TDAmeritrade works.

This really isn't sinking in....is this for real?

1200 on the bid? Nice step up.
Oops, just flashed off.

For what it's worth:

b) Closing Date. The Closing of the purchase and
sale of the Convertible Notes (each such sale, as further set forth below, is at
times referred to herein as an "Offering") shall take place at 10:00 a.m.
Eastern Standard Time on any date that shall be on or before October 1, 2006,
but in no event later than 45 days after completion of subscription documents
satisfactory to the Placement Agent

Looks like a buyers wall to prevent an upward move?

"Cramer was pumping LVLT".

His buds must be selling. lol
He has a point about the bandwidth shortage though.

SEC needs to add another zero behind those fines. Looks like the Utah governor is doing his job, hope the others see the issue as a bandwagon and jump on.

GTE: Still waiting for the eventual good news.

Bridge loan is also my take, eom

You're entire e-mail to EAFB was about flight testing, which is not immediately needed. I was right on the button with the context.

The first test are tethered, they do not need Edwards for those. Try asking EAFB the same questins after the tethered tests have been announced as completed.

I'm beginning to think Mr. Bleckman is keeping close tabs on this board and is communicating with those who are writing articles and getting mistakes corrected in those articles. After all, if a mistake is made you can be sure it will be revealed under the microscope of this board.

The new Popular Mechanics has an article on Airships. Nothing about the strat or Sanswire. Heavy lift vehicles mostly. It was still interesting.
Funny how an investor gets into a technology and reads everything available then picks up an article such as this and can see so much missing pertinent information in the reporting.

wow, that's a lot of viewings, your link should be reposted several times a day until the launch news is released.

476 viewings so far, thanks for the link and decoding!

NICE MOVE! What's up? eom

The jet stream is just that - a stream. Flying through it is by choice. Waiting for it to establish a different route would be rather simple. Looking at satellite imagery from the weather channel could tell you that.

I was wondering the very same thing. The video rendition seemed to not be made with your typical off the shelf software, at last not by an amateur. Could it be evidence of a professional level of bashing? Or just a talented basher with too much time on their hands?

Vern, don't let the peanut gallery bug you. Some are here to simply agitate.

I was wondering if somebody was going to take it, was getting ready to fill out a ticket for it just in case great news hit.

Wasn't pre 30th supposed to be "tethered" while 3rd Q was "untethered"?

Still, even a tethered update would be nice. No biggy though, good news is an eventuality.

(Oops, had to edit).

"launch window", not test results news. eom

How do you know? They could be testing as we type.

"It is Sept. 1 and there has been nary a word about the Stratellite testing window that was missed?"

To supplement Esyns' response. If you are going through an online broker the broker may not have deals with all of the exchanges, you won't see the full bid and ask. So the fcfs may seem scewed.

Welcome to to the wide wonderful world of exuberance and anticipation in equities.

Nothing was out.

Won't be able to fill buy orders if response to news is like in the past. The pps goes up too fast. The next surge up on news very well may not have a retracement. So those that took profits in here may be buying back in at much higher levels.
jmo

Does anyone know if the $3 mill was the present model alone or did it include Sans1. How much was Sans1? Brain lock here.

If evidence of strat viability is presented, they will get more $$ than they need from many different sources.

Pretty much, but I do not discount all negative posters views, just the obvious "agenda" bashers. To me, the "conspiracy theory" is a loophole for bashers, as I believe it may have some credibility.

Anybody hanging out near the Edwards/Palmdale location with binocs today? If so, would it be considered insider information? Cause if somebody reliable did relay a positive development to this board the pps is going to change fast.

I was wondering if you would....done the same myself a few times in the past. Good to see you back, GL

Fortune: It's been 2 hours and a million shares. In your opinion what would constitute enough shares to signal capitulation?
Thanks
glty

Point taken, and it was part of my original plan. Still have some resources but my neck is WAY out there right now. One positive news release with some meat on it and imo we shoot up. Enough good news before the 28th and the delisting notice will have the air taken out of it, or become moot entirely.

Still have 4400 on bid, just won't go through. Had to sell some more SIRI to add another 25k shares, (20600 at this point). Pretty sure we have seen capitulation.....never know with this stock though.

I would like to add that those who talk about the sandbags are not taking into account that they probably pulled an older photo taking previous to Ms. Changs visit.

That almost brought tears to my eyes. My heart goes out to you and others. This is a capitulation signal.

It's enough to make one take up drinking. Move over Pit.

Once this delisting fiasco is out of the way, (doesn't matter to me which way it goes), and a goal or two has been met, this pps will be back to a respectfull level. The company is still fullfilling what is required to accomplish its goals, just not as quickly as many would like. A lot of excellent people are busting their asses at GTE, to think that nothing is being accomplished is blindness. Me - I'm trying to commit to memory what this particularly bitter wish sandwhich tastes like, I know I'll forget it after goals are met. Very jealous of those loading up in this area, shoulda, woulda, coulda been all of us.

I hope Seth is getting a lot of one finger salutes out in public.

"Raytheon recently announced expanding with a new facility (US 80) in Mississippi. The expansion though is for an additional 90,000 sq. ft. plant to produce their radar and sensor equipment.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060824/raytheon_expansion.html?.v=1

That's quite a bit of square footage to produce those products."

About 185" X 485", just right for full sized strat manufacturing.

I second that.
Moderated boards were against my beliefs until children took over and ruined the other non-moderated boards. I now would not be on any other type. The DD on this board by yourself and many others, including a few non GTE flattering posters, (bashers excluded), has been valuable and interesting.
Thanks

"Also, dealing with Chinese government regulations, etc. cannot be quick or easy."

That depends on what the Chinese government wants. Funny how quickly a corrupt communist government can cut through red tape. I deal with mainland Chinese and if the government wants something done quickly..it gets done quickly.

Sam, I do not believe Huff is the one who says when the bird will fly, he just relays what he is told by the engineers. If the engineers have changed, and the entire design is changed then a large delay will follow. Common part of R & D.