Message posted by gary on August 09, 2001 at 0:52:44 PST:

In April, I took a drive through alamo canyon to see where the model rocket contest was held. There is a dry lake there, noted as Delamar Dry Lake on the topo map. I believe this is the Texas Lake that you hear the pilots speak about on the scanner.

The road to the canyon starts here: N37.33318 W115.13871
turn right here N37.37403 W115.02907

At this point the road splits N37.35927 W114.97295 taking you to either side of the dry lake

If you do a search on Delamar Dry lake (pehaps just Delamar), you will see that the area had some bit of history regarding the X15.

emergency landing http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/x15conf/pilots.html

x15 test flight
http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/pao/History/x15/adams.html

serious model rocket launch, and there is still one crashed rocket missing...
http://www.gbrocketry.com/delamar_may_2001.htm

Unfortunately, the town of Delamar and Delamar Dry Lake are both simply called Delamar on most web pages, so Delamar brings up lots of unintended hits.

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