On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Scott Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> We got pretty lucky with the landing site - it came down in a
> freshly-plowed field a couple hundred yards from a dirt road.
>
Scott -
I don't know what the Midway-Sunset Oil Field looks like now, but I recall
visiting there as a kid. My aunt and uncle lived in Maricopa, and my uncle
worked in the field. I recall lots of pools of crude oil on the ground and
a strong odor everywhere of volatile hydrocarbons. And I can just picture
the payload landing on one of those pumpjacks ("nodding donkeys") or even on
top of a storage tank. "Pretty lucky" is an understatement!
Glad it went well. I look forward to the video.
-jim KS4O
