Eagle's Lair
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July 15, 2006

Ladies & Gentlemen:

Present at today's work party were Ed Shadle, Keith Zanghi, Jon Higley, Von Armstrong, Ed Drumheller II, Steve & Libby Wallace, Bernard McVay, Tim Finley, Earl Gratzer and Rich Pengelley. Rob Martinson and his wife dropped by for a while, as did Yellowbird.

Initially, Ed Shadle loaded some extra items from the hangar onto his flatbed trailer and hauled it over to his property a few miles away.

Work was begun by Keith Zanghi, Bernard McVay and Von Armstrong on constructing the frame for a side door to go into the newly acquired trailer which is exactly like the NAE™ transport trailer. It will be going north soon to Eagle Machine, Inc. in Abottsford, B.C. to be outfitted for use at Speed Week next month when Ed, Keith, Steve, Ed II and Cam are at Bonneville, Utah.

Inside the trailer, Ed Shadle and Jon Higley began the removal of a control valve in the hydraulics bay for the installation of a volume control valve in its place. Meanwhile, at the tail of the NAE™, Von Armstrong was removing the two low-speed chute cans for Ed Drumheller to modify the pin release mechanism on the both of them. Outside the trailer, Earl Gratzer installed the replaced wheel on the rear axle which was damaged recently.

Steve Wallace and Tim Finley worked on understanding the schematics from the aircraft manual about the voltage regulator Ed Shadle recently acquired. Together, they analyzed exactly how it needs to be wired into the electrical system for proper use. Steve Wallace also analyzed that our Larson Davis data acquisition system collects 61,440 samples per second and holds these measurements in a 16MB cache. For each of 60 or so channels, we process 7,372,800 measure-ments. For a typical 120-second run, it's gathering 442,368,000 samples; a very efficient piece of equipment.

Late in the afternoon, the team sat down outside the hangar and discussed what we need to get done in the next two months and when it should be done. Getting this figured out will be critical to meet the events scheduled during this time span and ultimately for our fall test runs. Exactly when and where are yet to be determined, but it is a toss up still as to whether we go clear to El Mirage again, or take a closer trip to Black Rock.

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