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UPDATE #33 - September 18, 1998 PART 1: Upcoming Chats UPCOMING CHATS
Thursday, October 1, 1998, 11 AM Pacific Time: Leslie Ringo, flight simulation engineer The Vertical Motion Simulator at NASA Ames is the world's largest motion simulator. Leslie is one of the engineers responsible for ensuring this simulator responds exactly as a real aircraft would in the air http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/team/ringo.html Register for this chat at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/chats/#chatting The "Turning Goals Into Reality" conference will feature keynote speakers and press opportunities with NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin and Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Jane F. Garvey. The day-long event also will include panel discussions by key government and industry managers on global civil aviation, revolutionary technology and access to space, with questions from the audience. http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/aero/conf98/ The following chats are scheduled in advance of this conference to give the K-12 community and opportunity to participate and learn about NASA's Aeronautics and Space Transportation Enterprise in advance of the conference. Other events scheduled can be found at http://www.hq.nasa.gov/office/aero/conf98/eventcal.htm Tuesday, October 6, 1998, 10 AM Pacific Time: Frank Quinto, facility manager, Low-Turbulence Pressure Tunnel When asked what he likes most about his career, Frank explains that he enjoys being able to "work with tomorrow's planes today." Read Frank's autobiography at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/team/quinto.html Register for this chat at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/chats/#chatting Tuesday, October 6, 1998, 11 AM Pacific Time: Craig Hange, aerospace engineer Craig is also involved in the Wright Flyer Test, in which a replica of the Wright Brothers' airplane will be tested in the 80-by-120 Foot Wind Tunnel. Read Craig Hange's autobiography prior to joining this chat. http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/team/hange.html Register for this chat at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/chats/#chatting Wednesday, October 7, 1998, 10 AM Pacific Time: Brent Nowlin, electrical operations engineer Brent works with a team in a turbine facility, where he is responsible for ensuring all instrumentation and control systems function properly. Read Brent's autobiography at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/team/nowlin.html Register for this chat at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/chats/#chatting PROJECT NEWS
Wright Flyer Wind Tunnel Test Logo Contest The Wright Flyer Wind Tunnel Test Team would like to have a logo design that can be placed on test results, letterheads and possibly promotional stickers. We would like your help in designing this logo. Visit http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/events/contest/index.html the Wright Flyer Wind Tunnel Test Logo Contest page for more info. All entries must be received no later than September 30, 1998. (By my calendar that's coming up soon!!) New Autobiographies: We've been getting new team members faster that we can put up their autobiographies! Have you been able to keep up? Have you already read about Mark E. Kilkenny, Program Planning Specialist; Roxana Greenman, Aerospace Engineer; Ken Schrock, Data Communications Engineer; Linda Taylor, Electrical Engineer; Brent Nowlin, Electrical Operations Engineer. Find these autobiographies at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/team/ Some teachers have children read the autobiographies and pretend to be the expert to be interviewed by the class. I'd love to see that myself! Well if you are all caught up on reading the autobiographies you might start on some of the new journals!! http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/team/fjournals/ Other News: There have been some interesting Questions and Answers added to the archive at http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/question/ We'd love to answer more questions about the upcoming Wright Flyer Test. We hear that students who receive email replies to their questions are very happy. By the way no question is too simple. Some of the answered questions in the archive are fairly technical but as Marc Siegel says: "A question about WW II in Africa might not be related but when we got a question about whether or not the moon was a boy or a girl during a previous project, we considered it a related question and the scientist wrote back a good answer (In case you are wondering, the moon is not a boy or a girl. It is a rock.)" There are new photos in the Wright Flyer photo section, http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/wright/photos/ These show more pictures of the 1903 Wright Flyer Model mounted on the sting. The Sting is the big blue thing that's holding the plane up in the air. On this mount in the wind tunnel the plane's position can be maneuvered so that they can check the amount of lift and drag at different altitudes, attitudes and positions. Yesterday I went to the first NASA Wright Flyer Test meeting in addition to the test engineer, Pete Zell, who called the meeting and the research engineer, Craig Hange; there were several instrumentation engineers. While this was only their first meeting they could already begin to see some of the special challenges for this test. One concern facing the instrumentation team is how the balance will perform at extreme measurements of roll. How the plane performs when it is rolling is a big safety issue for the future pilots of this model. Another potential issue is how much noise the electrical engine will generate on the measurements of the sensors. (This noise is similar to the way the television picture might be affected by the blender being turned on in the kitchen. Does that happen to you?) Well we will have to be careful to avoid a problem there, we want the best data we can get. Everyone working on this test is very excited. It's so unusual. Well, I must get back to work on the Website. I look forward to seeing you Online in the chat room or send me your comments. Susan Lee (slee@mail.arc.nasa.gov) SUBSCRIBING AND UNSUBSCRIBING If this is your first message from the updates-aero list, welcome! To catch up on back issues, please visit the following Internet URL: http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/aero/updates To subscribe to the updates-aero mailing list (where this message came from), send a message to: listmanager@quest.arc.nasa.gov In the message body, write only these words: subscribe updates-aero CONVERSELY... To remove your name from the updates-aero mailing list, send a message to: listmanager@quest.arc.nasa.gov In the message body, write only these words: unsubscribe updates-aero |
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