[DeTomaso] Fwd: Edward Nauman - Fast Eddie

[Joseph F. Byrd, Jr.]

It sorrys me to hear of Edward's untimely passing.  I wished I had met him.
I have read some of his articles in one of the "Design" publications.  As
mentioned, his sense of humor seem to always rise to the top.

Joe



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> Gentlemen
>    
> It is with a very heavy heart that I email you some very sad news. 
>    
> "Fast Eddie" Nauman has been a member of this forum for many years; his
Pantera was #2100, but what really made him stand out was his incredible
sense of engineering humor.  He's the guy that built a fully-automatic beer
can crusher where he could throw a can into a hopper in any one of several
rooms or his garage; it would detect the can and launch a vacuum system that
would suck the can up and transport it at high speed through the house, into
the backyard, where a crusher would crush it and then neatly deposit it into
a can.  He lived in Palmdale and was a full-on Harley biker, as well as a
top-level engineer at the Lockheed Skunkworks.
> 
> Eddie passed away on January 1st.  Although he had been in somewhat
regular contact here on the forum, he never let on that he was diagnosed
with cancer and had five nasty tumors  discovered way too late.  He was only
61 years old.
>    
> The memorial is tomorrow in Palmdale CA.  Feb 3rd 2017.  
>    
> Ed was a fascinating guy, nothing short of an engineering legend and a
hero.  One very clever inventor and a man of rare talent and skill. 
>    
> Not many can claim to have had a hand in designing Lockheed Skunkworks
products such as the original F-117 Stealth Fighter. F-35 Raptor etc.  Back
in the early 2000s when I was flying out of LAX, thanks to my Top Secret
clearance Eddie was able to give me a private tour of the Skunkworks and
show me some of the projects he was working on--truly fascinating stuff.
But his at-home stuff was at least as fascinating, including the
aforementioned beer-can crusher (years ago I posted a link to a Youtube
video showing it in action but I can't find it now), and his acoustic
cannon--a home-made cannon that only makes noise, rather than launching a
projectile.  The first time he fired it off in his backyard, it broke all
the windows on the back of his house, the shock wave crushed the wall and
cracked the stucco, and the police department was flooded with calls from
people fearing a terrorist attack!
> 
> So sad that he has been taken from us so soon.  I hope you are all doing
well.  Life's short, live each day. 
>    
>    Mike
> 
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