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David Pinter
Last week (May 3, 2014), I flew my Madcow Tomach on it’s maiden flight to 7000+ feet on a J280. Unfortunately, I lost radio contact during descent and haven’t seen it since. It’s got a Altus Metrum Telemega, an Adept DDC22, and a 4 Grain Cessaroni 54mm Case.
Here’s a photo. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-t9BHkfHHxvUlpGdjE1eVg5dGc/edit?usp=sharing
The ‘chute is dark blue.
Anyone interested in teaching Radio Direction Finding? I probably could have gotten much better lines on it if I had gotten some training.
And I probably shouldn’t have left it with native Prairie colors, huh?
If anyone finds it, I’m offering a $100 reward.
Dave
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303-774-7641Jeffrey Joe Hinton
Dave,
Your bird should show up – glad you found Steve’s – sorry you’ve misplaced yours. With the number of folks expected at MHM, the prairie should yield it up to wandering eyes. This much I can almost certainly guarantee – it’s further out than you thought, probably drifted a little more to the east and if you keep on believing you’ll find it, it will be in the last place you look.David Pinter
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-t9BHkfHHxvUVEwcXhWNV9oZ0k/edit?usp=sharing
Red is the rocket’s flight path I got from the TeleMega. Blue are the GPS tracks of me wandering around looking. I had a decent pair of binoculars for the southeast loop track. The found rocket point is where I located Steve’s Patriot, which is quite coincinentally where both Keith Packard and myself estimate it to have landed.
Joe- do you think I’m still looking too far west?
Dave
Steve Jensen
across the main road south east of the entrance to our launch site. It was .5 miles east of the entrance and 60 yards south of the road.
It hit 13,000 feet, but weathercocked a bit heading due south from the launch site. Dual deploy at 900 feet. It looks like you walked near it’s landing spot.
It should show up at MHM.
Steve
Steve Jensen
If I was betting on it’s landing spot, I’d say it is somewhere close to the word “location” on your map. My rocket deployed then drifted in the wind .3 miles due east tailing just a bit south.
David Pinter
My rocket deployed then drifted in the wind .3 miles due east tailing just a bit south.
Do you have GPS track of your flight you could share? If so, that and the time of launch would help me put together the wind profile, and refine my search.
Thanks in advance,
Dave
Steve Jensen
The track I may have nuked from my Astro. I will check.
David Pinter
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