[Land-speed] Data aquisition

[Jim Dincau]

Elon.
     To expand on my taxing the limits of the SCTA comment. Let's say that 
everyone turned in the device he ran at the timing slip booth. To do 
otherwise would require someone on each course return road driving up and 
down because no one pulls off the course at the same place. After a run is 
made the push truck has to drive to the vehicle and get it back to the 
pickup point. This will take as much as half an hour for long course hard to 
retrieve vehicles. Now each black box can't be returned to the starting line 
individually so there willl have to be a reserve of units to allow for this. 
In the half hour there will be as many as 10 runs on each course plus 10 
backups to allow for the aforementiond time delay. That means 60 boxes. 
Let's assume that we get a really good deal and each one only costs $500, 
that comes to $30,000. Next year there will no longer be black oil lines on 
the salt because it costs over $9,000 for the oil. We will also need six 
voulenteers on each course plus six more for shift changes and one rover for 
backups. These voulenteers wil need communications gear and training as 
batterys will need to be charged and unwanted data erased.  The equipment 
will also need need maintenance and storage. Perhaps the University of Ohio 
could get a reaserch grant and the taxpayers could pay for it.
Jim Dincau