Home of the North American Eagle - World Land Speed Challenger

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Team NAE™

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Rogers Dry Lake Bed, Edwards AFB, CA - October 2005

This team has grown from just four original team members in 1998, to over forty volunteers from nearly every profession today. For as long as nine years they have enthusiastically given one or two days of each week - sometimes more - to do whatever has been necessary to see the goal of bringing the world land speed record back to America happen. The friendships and support of everyone for each other as a team is a testament to the leadership of the two men who chose to become partners at the project's inception.

View Team NAE™'s Pictoral Growth over the past five years.

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Click on team member's name for biography and contact information.

Leadership Team

Ed Shadle:
Driver / Project Manager

Keith Zanghi:
Director of Operations

Communications

Jon Higley:
Crew Lead/Webmaster
Chief Information Officer
Educational Affairs Director

Patricia Woods:
Website Services

Molly Bakewell Chamberlin:
President & Founder, Embassy Global, LLC
Director of Technical PR

Susan West:
Director of Public Relations/Media

Systems Engineers

Steve Wallace:
Scientist, Data Acquisition Systems

John Winchester:
Parachute Specialist

Ed Drumheller II: In Memorial
Aerodynamic Deceleration
& Egress Specialist

Aerodynamic Team

Mike Thoe:
Aerodynamics / Wind Tunnel Engineer

Rex Walter:
Aeronautical Engineer

Ron Doll:
Aerodynamics / Computational Fluid Dynamics

Darren Grove:
Aerodynamics / CFD / IT Specialist

Engineering Team

John Mittleider:
Finite Element Analysis Engineer

Don Mitchell:
CATIA / Geomagic Programmer

Scott Robertson:
Hydraulic Systems

Propulsion System Team

Bill Eckberg:
Crew Chief/
Propulsion Systems

Sean Rondestvedt:
Propulsion Systems

Robin Sipe:
Propulsion Systems/
Sponsor

Allen “Al” Von Hollen:
Propulsion Systems

Brian Maddigan:
Propulsion Systems

David Wood:
Propulsion Systems

Lane McCabe:
Propulsion Systems

John Zambrano:
Propulsion Systems

Dave Selby:
Propulsion Systems

Corey Dawson:
Propulsion Systems

Equipment Support Team

Bernard McVay:
Welding Sponsor

Eric McClain:
Welder/Truck Mechanic

Josh Strange:
Welder/Mechanic

Steve Green:
Machinist / Sponsor / Course Preparation

Cameron Shadle:
Structural Mechanic/Cockpit Specialist

Dave Green:
Mechanic / Course Preparation

Calvin Dirks:
Mechanic / Course Preparation

Russell Garlow:
Team Mechanic/Educational Outreach

Richard Pengelley:
Team Mechanic/Start Cart Operator

Billy “Omar” Chramosta:
Team Mechanic

Team Support

Von Armstrong:
Safety / Security / Radio Communications

Libby Wallace:
Data Acquisition Support

John Drury:
Transportation Specialist /
Radio Communications

Tom Pengelley:
Transportation Specialist

Mark Seguin:
Fire Support / Sponsor

Rob Martinson:
Fire Support

Eric Helpenstell:
Fire Support

Elaine Shadle:
NAE Gear

Rachel Shadle:
Photographer

Robert Meyer:
Honorary Team Member

Ground Support Team:

Special Thanks to:

Tim Finley:
Instrumentation Specialist
/Machinist

Barbara Drumheller:
Deceleration Consultant

Jeffery Paul Hansen, Ph. D:
Technical Consultant, Computer Systems

Dave Wheeler:
Hydraulic Systems

Bob Davidson

Heather King

Jason Bundy

Dirk Sundbaum

Slim Lawson

Ron Norman

Glen Hopkins

Mark Johnson

Didi Boyington

Larry Cruz

Pete Moss

Tonja Higley - Always patient.

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