Oktoberfest lost and found

[Chad]

Adrian,
Rich Rueter found my rocket, and described it as South of the fenceline and just west of the access road. This would be roughly 4000′ from the launch pad bearing 340. My rocket had a slight lean to the SW on boost, so my interpretation was that the average wind was from 180 and roughly 18 mph.

I’ll be happy to head out to the North Site and help you look, and maybe you could throw a few rocket design technique bones my way. email me at chadair at mac dot com if you want to take me up on this

Chad

PS. It appears I have bested Warren’s E record by about 400′ with my little balsa-paper rocket “Eponymous.”

[Warren B. MusselmanModerator]

Not for long my friend, not for long. Winter is coming and with it my building season and I have quite a few little projects in the pipeline – a D, E, F, and G series of birds and a K bird specific for the Loki K350, rebuilding my 54mm L330 bird for either Mayhem or BALLS with an eye on the TRA world L record (I’ve got the VonKarman nose for it) and of course finishing the last 5% of my L3 bird and a minimum diameter N1100 bird for BALLS in 09… now all I have to do is find all the boxes where this stuff ended up when I moved 2 months ago.

Congratulations by the way.

Warren

[Chad]

Man! I was supposed to bask in the glory of my club record and rest on my laurels. Now I’m going to have to work harder. What a stressful hobby 😉

I think I’m going to buy some carbon fiber tomorrow and start sketching out some design improvements for a 24mm bird.

Good luck- I’m curious to see what you come up with and what altitudes you reach with all your projects.

[AdrianParticipant]

I’ll be happy to head out to the North Site and help you look, and maybe you could throw a few rocket design technique bones my way.

Chad, that’s a very generous offer. I wasn’t sure I was going to go back but I found that I’ll have some time on Saturday morning if you’re available then. If you’re on the way, I’ll pick you up to save some gas.

[Chad]

Adrian’s latest google map of what was searched. Might also be useful for Bdale and maybe others.

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=114868309855736157763.0004589a9594c47b95e9e

[Jeffrey Joe HintonModerator]

FYI – Art Hoag took me flying Monday all over the North site and in searches out to about ten miles and unfortunately we were not able to spot anything on the ground that resembled bDale’s rocket or remains. Lots of antelope and cattle and fence posts but nothing to be cleared from the MIA list. And a word to the wise, that is some seriously rough terrain to the north east. Without a tracker or transmitter – best of luck. Hopefully bDale’s was collected by a rancher or hunter or the aliens and will be ransomed or returned unharmed.

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