I say, send the entire Phalanx up. Go BIG or go home.
Ooh, wait... do one as the Phalanx, and another as Recluse and Arachnos. Race them in these ways:
1) Time to final altitude
2) Round Trip time (launch to landing)
3) landing area distance from launch.. nearest wins
Post results, garner brownie points for doing it.
/If desired, Tyrant and his cronies can go too. Heh.
//OOOH, send a Hamidon. Yeah. You can watch him expand as he goes higher up. Oh, I'm gettin' the giggles from envisioning that...