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Warren B. Musselman
I too lost an SSS bird out at the North Site on Saturday 11/4. It is white with 2 red and 1 black fin, a true conical nose cone and has a Perfectflight MAWD in it. I will pay a $20 reward if found and returned. It is possibly on the plateau South of the launch site and East of the dirt road. It would certainly be north of County Road 122. Any efforts to find it, even if a bucket recovery job, would be much appreciated.
Warren
Chris LaPanse
So you never found yours either…
Do you know what happened to Ed’s?
I had to leave just before his flew…
Warren B. Musselman
Ed’s is history as well… somewhere out on the prairie.
Warren
elviss_boy
Man gentalmen this SSS it eating away at our recovery systems!…. Sorry for the loss the best way to find is to do searches going back and forth up and down to find them and dont always look were the wind was going , wind may be different high up. So good lucky hope you find them.
Ed Dawson
Art, Joe and I spent about an hour looking for rockets this morning. Joe found his and I found my bird just past the gas line to the North-East. No altitude at first, but then left it in the trailer for an hour or so and it started to flash the altitude. I think it was too cold but when it warmed up and had enough juice left to flash.
The streamer did not deploy, but the rocket was undamaged.
Sorry Chris & Warren, we tried, but no luck.
Ed
P.S. My altitude was 6,275.
Warren B. Musselman
Well you kicked John’s butt with that altitude… however, the rules are the bird had to be returned by close of waiver on the day the bird is launched so you DQ’d… However, you definitely had the maximum returned altitude. Mine is up on the plateau to the south almost certainly. It’ll turn up. I may go out looking next weekend.
Warren
Ed Dawson
Yes, I’ve been thinking about that all day. I wish I could have gotten to the site before 1:00. If I had launched earlier in the day then perhaps I could have found it before the waiver closed.
Oh well. Another lesson learned…
Anonymous
Well you kicked John’s butt with that altitude… n
Indeed he did… that said, as I noted in the forums earlier this year, I wasn’t going for shear altitude — I placed a lot of emphasis on recovery. I remember posting the exact details of my bird in these forums (down to fin span, root chord, rocket length, weight, etc.) and I noted then that it was far from optimized.
Recovery of a 54mm rocket that is 5 feet long from 6K (ish) is very difficult. Something this size? Yikes!
BTW, the reason I core sampled was pretty amazing… I had a bad ematch. It was well protected and not crushed in the accident. We hooked it directly to a battery, and it didn’t fire. Oh well, it was indeed a “Single Shot”. Wish I had the nosecone back, though….
denverdoc
What was the altitude on Ed’s? Also wondering if we head SE to Atlas next month–now that I’m moved and back in the building mode, say I break the 12K waiver on my ssss flight by a couple hundred feet, is that a DQ? I see no specific mention in the rules, albeit obvious poor form.
JSWarren B. Musselman
Historically speaking, flights which exceed the waiver must be reported at the waiver minus 5′ so that there is nothing in writing to implicate the flyer or the club in violating an FAA waiver. Therefore, you can’t win the SSSS at the Atlas site… you could win the SSS though. Current altitude is 5800-something by John Wilke. His bird core sampled, but the altimeter survived and reported his altitude.
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