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.

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

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

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.

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

The track I may have nuked from my Astro. I will check.