[Requesting help again from the Groundspeak community]

Thank you all for the assistance,emails and calls. I am happy to report the balloon and payload has been recovered.

 

 

Happy Holidays,

 

David

[Requesting help again from the Groundspeak community]

***edited and raised the reward***

 

We are once again hoping to get some assistance from the geocaching community. I had spoken to Miss Jenn (back in April about a similar flight) she granted me permission to post the request on the forums.

 

We recently launched another high altitude balloon from Dallas Texas. The flight went to over 100,000 ft. Needless to say, it caught a 65mph NE Jet-stream and the balloon traveled much farther than planned. We took the 5 hour drive to the location, attempted recovery but, we lost too much daylight to proceed.

 

The balloon has a red and green payload (neoprene lunch bags) with a red parachute.

 

Are hopes are to gather high altitude pictures, along with other high altitude data.

 

We have exact gps coordinates and are offering a $200 reward for finding the payload.

 

33.98672 -94.04364

 

Details:

 

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AcIldZTp...3JmOA&hl=en

 

 

Kind Regards,

 

David

[high altitude balloon project from North Texas]

I am going to allow this thread. :-)

I am also changing the title and subtitle to make it more descriptive and moving it to the appropriate local forum. (South and Southeast region)

 

Thanks MissJenn

 

We appreciate the help!

[high altitude balloon project from North Texas]

Hopefully this is ok to post. If not (MODS) please delete.

 

This experiment was a proof of concept. There is little monetary value of the contents of the box. (Used digital cameras and a pre-paid cell phone)

 

 

The coordinates are as followed :

 

34.88251, -93.06227

 

 

Link with more info and pictures

 

 

There is a $100 reward for the payload (orange box)

 

Thank you all!

[high altitude balloon project from North Texas]

Well the original post has been up for several hours now. I'd take that as OK from the site admins.

There was severe weather near TX and east the past two days. Did this balloon get carried by the stormfront? Why not just post coords for where this landed, or may have landed, and see if anyone can retrieve it for you?

If you wait too long, it may be gone.

 

Thanks, for the fast responses. I will post coords but, I want to make sure I don't "step on any toes" since this is an unusual request, I sent an email to contact@geocaching.com.

 

Once again thanks for help!

 

 

David

[high altitude balloon project from North Texas]

Hello from Texas,

 

We are hoping to gather some assistance from the geocaching community.

 

We recently launched a high altitude balloon project from North Texas. The flight went well however, the balloon travel went much farther than planned. The balloon has a payload of 2 cameras, GPS. Are hopes are to gather high altitude pictures, and a pictures of the curvature of the earth.

 

We have gps coordinates and are offering a reward for finding the payload.

 

Before posting any more details, we would like permission from either the Admins or Mods to post in this section.

 

Kind Regards,

 

David