Frank Hawley Lectures NASA

[Bobby Bennett]

FRANK HAWLEY CONDUCTS LECTURE WITH NASA

 

[BrettV]

Hey! Why don't we get the cool lecturers at my center? Just because we are in the middle of no where... lol

 

[Old Guy Rookie]

What a great class and gentleman he is, going through FHDRS is easily one of the best things I've ever done. He reduced drag racing (driving) down to it's most zen terms: light-go. That was it.

 

[afx421]

What a great class and gentleman he is, going through FHDRS is easily one of the best things I've ever done. He reduced drag racing (driving) down to it's most zen terms: light-go. That was it.

X10! me too, franks school was amazing, people have told me, whats the big deal, anyone can drive a pro car, but what they dont know is the classroom time with frank was priceless.

 

[Toejam]

Not to sound disrespectful to Frank, but what could he possibly Tell NASA engineers that they already don't know?

 

[willy]

Not to sound disrespectful to Frank, but what could he possibly Tell NASA engineers that they already don't know?

Geez, Joe..I don't know. Maybe real life experiences applying the whole process of physics/friction/gravity/acceleration. I would love to have been there for that. Frank is top notch and able to converse at their level.

And according to him..the decision making process is similar:

"If you work in an environment where you may be challenged with making critical decisions it can help to have a better understanding of your own human performance capabilities and develop methods with which you can train yourself to handle these situations more efficiently." (light/go..hehe)

I'll bet if you ask all the nerd geeks..they would tell you they enjoyed it. Awesome.

 

[BrettV]

Not to sound disrespectful to Frank, but what could he possibly Tell NASA engineers that they already don't know?

I’m not a racer, just a fan, but I think he has a lot to offer engineers. I believe he was talking about focus and lots and lots of practice in your field in order to make good, quick decisions under pressure where there is a lot going on. That's why safety folk (for instance) practice various launch failure scenarios before the actual launches. Things can go wrong very quickly, just like in a race car. And that’s just for unmanned launches, multiply the pressure by thousands when there are people on board. Even in the relatively lower pressure world of satellites and scientific balloon flights missions have been lost by people making bad decisions. (Like turning the command receiver off so you can never control the satellite again, or clicking on the command above the one you meant to send, wondering what happened, panicking and trying to fix the problem without thinking about what’s going on, resulting in a lost mission.)

 

[Speed1288]

I got a book for christmas last year that he wrote awhile ago, back when he was driving the miller dragster, It's a great book that taught me a lot