Eagle's Lair
Members Roster

April 28, 2007

Ladies & Gentlemen:

Today Ed Shadle, Keith Zanghi, Jon Higley, Steve Wallace, Sean Rondestvedt, Omar Chramosta, John Winchester and Sam Yellowbird were present to perform various tasks on the beast.

Our newest team member, Mike Thoe, was also present to spend time getting to know the guys and understanding what was going on with the many aspects of the project. Mike brings to the project some critical skills and experience that will help the project move forward toward its ultimate goal.

The first task of the day's work party was to cut out portions of the two foam pads Ed Shadle got to house the beautiful model of the NAE™ he, Keith Zanghi and Steve Wallace will have with them when they go to the COE presentation next week in Las Vegas, Nevada. Later, Keith brought the needed pieces for constructing a box to house the foam shell with the model for travel. They spent the rest of the day going over their presentation they are giving to the CATIA V5 user's group at the conference being put on by our sponsors, Dassault Systemes.

Not long after arriving, Steve Wallace set up his working model of the car's canard control mechanism. Steve has been working on this at his home for several weeks and was able to demonstrate it to the rest of the team today. This mechanism is controlled by a computer program and positional transducer that will ultimately adjust the angle of the canards on the nose of the car to negate any nose lift as the car accelerates into transonic and supersonic speeds.

Jon, Sean and Sam spent time further preparing the firefighting truck that was recently donated by team member Rich Pengelly to the project. This truck will carry the fire supression foam tank, along with other fire fighting equipment.

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