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Ladies and Gentlemen:

A small group of team members met this past weekend to continue working on the North American Eagle™. Present were Sean Rondestvedt, Von Armstrong, Steve Wallace, Omar Chramosta, John Winchester, Tim Finley, Keith Zanghi and Ed Shadle.

This week Tim, Ed and Steve continued working on our wiring system in preparation for an upcoming test session. Sean, Ed and Omar removed the ejection seat and repositioned the seat belts. The new location will keep Ed securely in the seat. When finished, the three guys reinstalled the seat into the car.

Von and Keith sorted through thousands of fasteners and separated them into individual bins. They had been stored in plastic bags and the new inventory control will make it easier to locate a fastener when needed.

Steve also test fitted his new computer cooling system. The five gallon bucket will be located in a previously unused compartment directly aft of the batteries.

John worked on a laundry list of parachute related activities. Thomas Aerospace is finishing up several deployment bags for the car. They should be arriving in the next few days.

Also this week many of our team members are working virtual at home on many projects.  Don Mitchell has been working with Geomagic Studio converting the 30 million cloud of points (point cloud) that was generated from digitizing the car using Faro Technologies Photon Laser Scanner.  The software converts the millions of points into surfaces which we can use later in Dassault Systèmes CATIA V5 Software.   The photos above show some of Don's work.

Ron Doll has also been burning the midnight oil at home taking the digitized vehicle and starting work on our Computational Fluid Dynamic analysis. The photo above on the right is a volume picture which  illustrates the flow field gridding: a vertical slice at body centerline, a waterline slice at canard pivot, and a station cut mid-body. There is still a ton of work to be done and these examples show our readers how challenging and important this work is.

That's it for now. Look for a new technology sponsor announcement this week and three new speaking engagements.

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