Eagle's Lair
Members Roster

July 7, 2007

Ladies & Gentlemen:

Present at the NAE™ hangar today for this weekend's work party were Ed Shadle, Keith Zanghi, Jon Higley, Von Armstrong, Tim Finley, Meeko, Steve Wallace, John Winchester, John Drury, Rich Pengelley, Omar Chramosta, and Sam Yellowbird.

As always, several different activities were going on simultaneously throughout the day. Electrical and deceleration systems, suspension installation and vehicle preparation were tasks worked on today.

Jon, Von, John Drury, Ed and Keith all worked on removing decals and lettering from the small school bus donated to the project by our sponsor Caveman Coffee of Spanaway. It will be used to transport team members as we caravan to a testing or record attempt session.

John Winchester and Ed Shadle talked through some details regarding the parachute system, while Steve Wallace spent his time taping closed the holes in the front wheel well while the box and steering suspension unit is being worked on. This will help minimize the amount of dust that can get up into the data acquisition/ electrical bay behind the cockpit.

Tim Finley and Meeko spent their time pouring over some electrical schematics of the F-104. They were analyzing voltage and phase issues to improve the electrical system's performance. At the same time, John Drury smoothed over the rough edge of the rear wheel's brake rotor. Of course, Ed was busy the rest of the time fielding phone calls from various fans and sponsors.

Steve Wallace, the team's data acquisition scientist, brought and showed the team his computer system he's designed to control the canards on the car.

In preparation for next weekend's visit by one of our sponsors - FARO Systems - Jon, John Drury, Keith, Rich, Omar and Von installed the rear suspension on the "beast". It will be digitized using their laser mapping hardware and software so that it can be added into the point cloud for CFD analysis. The purpose of this is to find out what we need to do with the rear suspension to deal with drag at transonic and supersonic speeds.

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