September 23&24th the Embry-Riddle team gets a chance to stay close to home. George DeWees with the AMS (Aviation Maintenance Science) invited the team to help them promote the University at Latin Weekend at the Florida Mall in Orlando. This is our second year for this event. Because we live in Central Florida, it is not a surprise that there are people that visit from all over the World, but WOW, I think they were all there last weekend. We had the opportunity to meet people from everywhere. The jet dragster was at the center of attention. We arrived on Saturday morning, and finished up on Sunday evening. There were a lot of people from England asking about their countryman who recently crashed in a jet dragster. I had heard about the crash, and as always it makes you pause, but then you realize that this is a risky business, and things can happen, you just hope that your car handles the situation as best as possible. From what I have heard, the driver is doing well.
Other than the display, it has been kind of quite on the home front. In a previous blog, I mentioned that we were car shopping, well, I purchased a car, and I can cross that item off the list. It was sad to see the PT Cruiser go down the street for the last time. I would own another one anytime, great car.
We are gearing up for a very busy October. We will be testing the dragster one more time before her official debut at Moroso Motorsports Park on October 14&15. Then the weekend after we will be traveling to Gulfport, MS. We haven't been back since the hurricane, and are excited to go back to see how all of the racers are doing.
I guess that is it for now. Catch ya later.
Elaine
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