North American Eagle events

[F104A]

The July 27th update is online. It covers our 3 day display at the Seattle, Boeing museum of flight event. We
loaded out on Sunday night for the next event which is the display at the National Instruments national conference
in Austin, TX. I'll bed heading directly to Speedweek where Cam, Jessi Combs and I will be working with
both The Original Fastguys C/Gas Lakester and the Dean's Thundersalt rear engine modified. When we return
from Speedweek, we immediatley get into preparation for the first two weeks of October speed runs at
the Alvord Desert. Going to be very busy for the next couple months.

http://landspeed.com/project/project-updates/206-july-27-2013.

[F104A]

Check out our presentation at the National Instruments Conference in Austin, TX.
Keith did a great job in fron to 4700 engineers, technicians and scientists.\

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gaee6Dapiuo

[F104A]

Here we are, sitting at "The Ranch" waiting for the wind to stop blowing. It seems to have stopped raining for
the time being. Watching the weather channel to see what's coming our way. Lakebed is really beat up and soft
in spots. Been looking for a good track all day.

[dw230]

Good luck Ed,

DW

[joea]

ditto, hope you get some seat time going fast..!

[ski123]

Go get em!     No mud!

[F104A]

Was dry and clear today. Car is ready and so am I.............!!

[Peter Jack]

Let me guess ------------------ area closed by non functioning, non required government.  

Pete

[smarjoram]

Any news? Really hoping you get a chance to run!

[joea]

they have been running....

saw this on FB : from Ed

"The data from these runs still needs to be analyzed to gain a better idea of what speeds the North American Eagle ran at today."

"Two runs today following our test plan. Vehicle is running very good after a full day of refinements. Car needs to be fueled and we will be out first thing Sunday morning for test run number 5"
i suggested a screen shot from the data logger mph.......

maybe a pic of a gps readout......or what a iphone recorded...

it sure looked by the info that they are having fun...and getting much needed time making runs and evaluating results/numbers etc..

Jessi Combs driving...

[4-barrel Mike]

http://www.jessicombs.com/Awesomenss/News/Entries/2013/6/15_North_American_Eagle_Welcomes_Combs_to_the_Team.html

Interesting!

Mike

[racefanwfo]

what does that mean The data from these runs still needs to be analyzed to gain a better idea of what speeds the North American Eagle ran at today. that makes no since at all. so there is no speedo of any kind in the car to tell them how fast that they went. i know that they are testing other things on the car but i am intrested in how fast that they are running. ed has run the car up to 400mph so my question is on any of the runs did they run faster then that. should be a simple answer yes or no.

[F104A]

We use a global navigation system provided by Topcon. It is dropping out during the runs so we don't get accurate data. I also carried a "Smart phone"
in my pocket but it didn't work. It had the speed app installed and it works in the regular car but around 400 in the jet it not only didn't capture the speed but
also wiped out all the contact file. The air speed indicator is not very accurate but gave an approximate speed of 400 MPH. I ran from the two mile
marker to the 4 mile at full military power (compressor only) then full afterburner from the 4 to the 5 mile. We cannot power any further as we only
have another 2.8 miles past the 5 mile marker and we get into rocks on the surface. Total usable course available to us is about 8 miles.
The surface is beautiful but some rocks have appeared across the lakebed and one of them took a big chunk out of the nose wheel. We'll continue
running this week to see what we can squeeze out of the short course.

[55chevr]

I thought that I say a posting the Valerie Thompson was going to run NA Eagle for women's LSR?


Joe

[joea]

Ed GOOD ON YA for the runs....!!

also..I hope you are figuring out how to show/proove mph as that is the game and
goal everyone including potential sponsors is looking for, and having all the speed measurment
systems revealed to date no working simultaneously is certainly not helping....

Joe..Valerie was one iteration ago in the women pilot saga....
the celebratory pics shown earlier with Jessi were at a photo shoot when they announced her
addition.......before any runs made.....im guessing she will be even more excited now..?..