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Based on pre-flight calculations, I’ve been assuming the descent rate of the bulk of YikStik under main was slightly faster than the descent rate of the recovered nose cone and payload bay assembly.The experience I had with a larger chute…   Read more»

We went for a long flight over this whole area this morning around 9:15 to 10:30 and turned up nothing. Flying a Cessna 182 at very low level 400~500 AGL and sometimes lower we checked out all the canyons and…   Read more»

In California on business at the moment. Thanks to all for the effort expended so far! I’ve got the tracks from my GPS receiver showing where I’ve searched rendering in GoogleEarth, but I haven’t figured out how to share that…   Read more»

It was such a nice day I went for a walk on the prairie today at the North Site. I covered about a square mile thinking I might run across Adrian’s G record attempt or YikStick. I spent about half…   Read more»

Well, Bdale’s rocket is still at large. Joe Hinton and I took off this morning around 10:30 and flew around the North Site for a good 45 minutes. We covered a lot of area and Joe spent a lot of…   Read more»

I didn’t go up today, I had to stay in the area. Sorry about that…..

Heading for the airport right now, but will pull the tracks off my handheld GPS and use them to cobble something up tonight or tomorrow.Bdale

I spent about 5.5 hours walking the area today with no luck. At this point, I assume it’s either stuck down in one of the nooks in the washes I didn’t get to, or someone picked it up.Can you show…   Read more»

So everyone knows where they are looking for. I hope it gets found soon, this sucks.

I spent about 5.5 hours walking the area today with no luck. At this point, I assume it’s either stuck down in one of the nooks in the washes I didn’t get to, or someone picked it up.Posted some ‘lost…   Read more»

I looked at my pictures, other than shots at lift-off I don’t have any of it 🙁

Thanks for the offer, Greg, but the timing isn’t going to work out to pick up the scope from you. I’ll do what I can with what I’ve got, and report either way when I get home late tomorrow.

Here is a link to the wind vectors, scroll through them back to Friday night and then start coming forward. It looks like to me it would have gone north, and then north west under 10-15 knot winds. Friday to…   Read more»

Ray LaPanse got some good photos of my L3 rocket, YikStik. I’ve put one of the pre-launch ones at http://www.gag.com/~bdale/tmp/YikStik.jpg. The rocket is a full-custom design based on 98mm Giant Leap Dyna-Wind tubing, and is about 9 feet long overall….   Read more»

the wind was up and down, but the rocket was out there Sat and Sun before we got to the NC. From what I understand the wind was high yesterday so it is hard to say were it is now…   Read more»

I’m planning to go up tomorrow morning (Wed the 8th) and search the area between where I’d already searched and where the nose cone was found. Have a good pair of binoculars, a good handheld GPS, etc.

Haw fast was the wind blowing at ground level? Do you think it was drug off? Since I was not there I wouldn’t know. I may try to go up Sat AM and look for it.Do you have pictures?I’ll get…   Read more»

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…   Read more»

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

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…   Read more»