Yes, most reliable recovery system I’ve found. Actually, this is the third
rocket I’ve lost and recovered via name/phone number. Here are the previous
times:
1) First Cert Level 3 attempt with SWIII (when it looped), - Recovered and
returned two weeks later by Jose, a Lucerne resident (Granite St, 2 1/4 miles
east of ROC launch site)
2) Lower stage of SWIV - Holtville Havoc, March 2019. Found Feb 2020 (11 months
later!) and dropped off at RCO table. David Nord called to let me know and I
picked it up at the March 2020 Holtville Havoc.
On Apr 20, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Chris J Kobel
<chris.j.kobel@xxxxxxxx<mailto:chris.j.kobel@xxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Congrats! Aren’t you glad you put your name and phone number on it?
Chris Kobel
From: roc-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:roc-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<roc-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:roc-chat-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> On Behalf
Of Bryan Langholz
Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 1:57 PM
To: roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx<mailto:roc-chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [roc-chat] The kindness of strangers: Further tales of Start Walking
III
OK, I got a text last Wednesday: “Found your rocket” with the picture below.
Gabe and Laikyn Meier of Redlands were out treasure hunting in the Lakebed and
came across a dry mud encrusted rocket:
Start Walking III, v3, last seen going up and out of sight at the August 10,
2019 ROC launch on an Aerotech L900DM motor. I had a tracker in it, but I
failed to pick up a signal and, after many hours of searching, gave it up for
lost.
I went out to Redlands met Gabe and Laikyn who were as excited about finding
and returning SWIII as I was about recovering it. Back home, I found that, in
spite of having been in water for a while, all four of AltusMetrum Easymini
flight computers still functioned (with a new battery). The altimeters
registered an apogee height of 12,100ft and a max velocity of mach 1.1. It was
found about 2 miles away, slightly west of north.
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