If anyone out there would take the time to look, the NAE has been doing the education thing for years. We have a school page and have done many presentations to schools ranging from grade schools, mid and high schools and colleges. We've done presentations in Europe, Canada and all over the US. We've been in hundreds of publications and secured technical and services sponsorships from nearly a hundred companies. We've been the subject of several documentaries for TV including the one hour show on Megabuilders. With all that, we cannot get the attention of companies nor the support of our own government agencies ie: BLM, USAF, US Army or Navy. Much like the complaint that Orange and Intel did ads' featuring the Thrust SSC without remuneration is similar to some companies that did the same to us. We've been in TV advertisments by Dos Eques and a few others without them asking or paying. If you post anything on Youtube, it becomes fair game and they know it.
We're so damned close to going for the records for fastest female and the absolute speed record that we can taste it but we still need help. When we conducted a donation drive we got $1700 total over three months. When some kids made fun of a lady on a bus, she came away with over a half million dollars. She did donate a lot of it to charity and that is a good thing. I guess the writer in the LA Times that wrote about setting a land speed record was correct, no one gives a damn! It's a shame that many don't see the patriotic angle to this nor the technilogical challenges that force us into inventing some unique things that can be utilized in some form or another. With or without advertisers that get the footage free, we're still going after that record. And that's my two bits!