Eagle's Lair
Members Roster

March 31, 2007

Ladies & Gentlemen:

Previous to Saturday, Ed Shadle and John Winchester made a trip to Ferndale to meet with Bob Shoemate, manager of the local distributorship for Coverall Company. They have agreed to provide shelters to the team that are about 32 to 36 feet wide by 60 ft long and 16 feet high. Coverall is the provider of shelters for everything from equestrian events, swap meets, hay storage and military applications both arctic and desert.

From there John and Ed traveled to Anacortes to meet with Randy Longerich, president of Puget Sound Rope. Puget Sound Rope is providing the riser lines which attach our parachutes to the vehicle. They own the patent on a specially designed line that is four times stronger than and equivalent size nylon line. Using this type of attachment line will provide much more security in retaining our parachutes when deployed at extreme speeds.

On Saturday, our work party was staffed by Ed Shadle, Bernard McVay, Rich Pengelley, Bill Eckberg, Tim Finley, Marty Schenck, Scott Peterson, Omar Chramosta, Steve Wallace, John Drury, Von Armstrong and Barb Drumheller. Barb stopped by to catch up on some of the things her late husband Ed II had left unfinished. Keith Zanghi didn't show up this time because he is off to Japan for a special award he received from his employer.

Von worked on the front suspension parts, doing some cleanup and removals. Omar, Bernard and John Drury worked on the bus, removing more of the school bus seats and fitting one of the new airline seats into position. Ed worked on some of the electrical system to try to figure out why the new batteries go dead overnight even there is no amp draw on the lines. Could it be a bad battery, even though they are new?

Bernard brought three friends down to the hanger to see the project. They are involved with restoring a Vietnam era riverboat, guns and all. Scott also brought two guests from where he works at NC Machinery. They all work in hydraulics so we did our best to pick their brains about hydraulic stuff.

At the end of the day, all the team members headed for home, except Bernard and Tim who went to the Cowgirl Up for a hamburger and refreshment. That left John Drury and me to take the bus back to it's usual parking place at the Spanaway Airport. Sure enough, the batteries were dead! Marty saved us with a set of jumper cables and we all headed home.

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