Eagle's Lair
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June 23, 2007

Ladies & Gentlemen:

Along with Ed Shadle & Keith Zanghi's trip to California earlier in the week, work on the new, stronger steering box was done by Ed, Sam and Bernard. Bernard finished welding the box. Bill Eckberg brought it down to the hangar for today's work party.

On Friday Brian Engle from Dassault Systemes stopped by to see the car. Brian has been in the Seattle area and decided on his last day here to stop in and meet the crew. Brian was the CATIA operator the converted the original "cloud of points" into a CATIA dataset.

Present today were Ed Shadle, Jon Higley, Bill Eckberg, Steve Wallace, Sean Rondestvedt, Von Armstrong, John Winchester, and John Drury. Earl Gratzer dropped in later in the afternoon.

Guests were present for a grand tour of the hangar today from Heritage Christian Academy. The three families - the Deveys, Fishes and Jumancas - were winners of an auction at their children's school for a tour of the land speed project's facilities. Pictured above with their parents are Braden, Michael, Sammi, and Andrew.

The major task of today's work party involved getting the new steering box properly marked and drilled. This required the car being jacked up, and it being raised into the front landing gear cavity so that holes which needed boring could be scored. At the same time, Ed and John Winchester examined and discussed the newly donated rope provided by our new sponsor Puget Sound Rope.

With that done, Bill, Sean and Steve proceeded to drill out the holes needed for the retainer pins which hold the box in place. Meanwhile, Ed and Bill also sat down and discussed plans for how the new steering system will be constructed. This new box is being installed in preparation for testing of our new high speed wheels which will be capable of exceeding 800mph. They also discussed how the new valve linkage will need to be set, so that the stick Ed uses to steer the car will have sufficient movement to suit Ed's requirements.

After work was done for the day, Ed and the team sat down to hear from Ed all about his flying experience earlier in the week in Southern Calfornia.

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