Trip Report
Andrew Bennett

Leave: 22 March 1998
Return: 29 March, 1998
Destination: Glendale, CA
Purpose: Quarterly Review and Meetings

Glendale
Met with WDI R&D personnel for the first time.
Met with Bran Ferrin for the first time.  Presented Dino control schematics.
Designed pilot's console for dino.
Designed data flow for control van.
Observed quarterly meeting.
Met with Location Sensitive Toy working group. 
Met with Katie Poole about VPN.
Met Greg Hale, Tom Croden and Randy ?? to discuss implementation of vehicles
  in parks, including construction, maintenence, fuels, engines, use and 
  telemetry.  Communications bandwidth in the parks is limited and we'll
  need a portable hangar for maintaince.
Met Rexroth, Owens Miller and Moog representatives about actuators.

Tujunga / Van Owen
Met Rick Kapowski to discuss current serial data management techniques.
Met with ROM estimators and discussed basis for estimate.
Presented RPS to engineers.
Toured facilities, talked to assembly technicians and engineers and learned how
  vehicles are currently made..
Discussed conversion of hydrolic to electric systems.


Anaheim
Toured facilities, compared first (Mr. Toad), second (Roger Rabbit) and 
third (Indiana Jones) generation "moving car" rides.  Examined rides,
hydrolic actuator systems and electric actuator systems.
