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NAE™ Project: Update

October 14, 2006

Ladies & Gentlemen:

Today, Ed Shadle, Keith Zanghi, Bill Eckberg, Tim Finley, Steve & Libby Wallace, Rich Pengelley, Bernard Mc Vay and Meeko were present to continue the list of tasks which were on the agenda. We only have three Saturdays left to get all this work done. So, the guys dug in and got working on several of them.

Rich Pengelley removed all the stuff in the trailer and we (mostly he) pressure washed the interior of the trailer.
Ed Shadle installed a new air valve in the truck in order to regulate the engine fan clutch.
Bernard McVay completed a majority of the work to install the hydraulic cylinder to assist in the loading process of the NAE into the trailer.
Bill Eckberg installed the fill valve and pressure gauge in the hydraulic system.
Tim identified the wires for the infrared brake rotor sensors. Tim also diagnosed the problem with the engine oil pressure sender and will order a replacement sender.
Steve Wallace worked on the data acquisiton system and Libby fed the entire bunch.
Keith kept busy wandering around and looking over everyones shoulder. He has a new job at his regular work place. He is now in charge of plant safety so he is practicing his new job responsibilities on the NAE team.

John Winchester stopped by and picked up some parachute material. He will bring the material home where he has all of his sewing machines. He met with Ed Drumheller II earlier in the day and worked out details on the new high speed parachutes. Ed II is busy putting together the bill of materials to build the high speed parachute system. For our tests in November we will utilize the existing 15 foot ring slots and 16 foot ribbon parachutes. For high speed runs, we will use a 8'-9' 20 degree conical ribbon parachute (Supplied by Aerial Machine & Tool). Analysis of the deployment will be captured on Olympus i-SPEED 2 HG (High G) video cameras.

North American Eagle™ will be making use of their High Speed Camera technology to analyze the deployment of our parachutes. This one second event can be captured using Olympus High Speed Video (HSV) mounted on the back of the Eagle. HSV is a field of technology used to analyze motion by providing a slow motion view of high-speed events.

The i-SPEED 2 cameras will allow capture of up to 33,000 frames per second (FPS) with its on-board memory, digitally storing the captured images on either a compact flash card or directly to a PC through its Ethernet connection. Combined with Olympus Software, this will give Ed Drumheller II a quick and easy access of images and provide critically needed analysis in a timely manner. For video in upcoming televisioin documentaries the team will use the MotoCam Video Cameras mounted fore and aft to capture the parachute openning in real time.

Also stopping by on his way to the airport was LevX / Magna-Force founder Jerry Lamb. Jerry has been at each of our test sessions and will be at El Mirage in November. The tractor that pulls the North American Eagle is supplied by LevX.

Next weekend the team will continue work on these tasks and several more to prepare for our next appearance and test session.

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