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January 2012: Jay
Leno and Michael Argetsinger discuss Watkins Glen, Formula One and Bill
Milliken in this interview.
September 2011:
Watkins Glen International has added Bill Milliken to the “Legends of
the Glen” with an award ceremony at the Grand Prix Festival on Sept.
9th. He’s in
good company—this year’s other two inductees are Jeff Gordon
and Mario Andretti. WGI posted
a very nice press
release, the induction ceremony is on YouTube,
and The
Buffalo News ran an excellent article. Also present (and heard!) at the
ceremony was the MX-2,
Multimatic’s new camber car. We hope to see more of this exciting
development in the future.
January 2011:
Doug Milliken and Edward Kasprzak continue to participate in the SAE
Industrial Lecture Program.
Over the last eight years they have totaled over 25 visits to
universities across the USA and Canada speaking on data for vehicle
dynamics modeling, suspension design, instrumentation and tire
testing/modeling. Follow this
link to request a
lecture.
December 2010: The
Formula SAE Tire Test
Consortium celebrates its 250th member!
December 2010: The
AIAA has presented the 2011
Pendray Literature Award to Bill Milliken for a combination of
lifetime achievement and his autobiography, Equations of Motion. WKBW-TV Channel 7 (2
minute video) was at the ceremony, which also included dedication
of CAL/Calspan as an Historic Aerospace Site.
May 2010:
Karl Ludvigsen publishes his definitive technical biography, Colin
Chapman: Inside the Innovator including a back cover quote from
Bill Milliken.
April 2009: The
International Motor Racing Research
Center at Watkins Glen Hosted a 99th birthday party for
Bill Milliken.
January 2009: The
Formula SAE Tire Test
Consortium launches a secure forum for the discussion of
FSAE TTC tire data and modeling.
December 2006:
Bill Milliken's autobiography, Equations of Motion,
is now available. Please follow this link to Bentley Publishers http://www.bentleypublishers.com/milliken
for more information on the book. Karl Ludvigsen's 2004 article on
Bill is also available for free download on the same page (first printed in
Automobile Quarterly).
May 2004: A new
short biography of Bill Milliken, written by noted automotive
historian Karl Ludvigsen, appears in Automobile Quarterly Volume 44 No 1 (First Quarter
2004), pages 18-33.
25 March 2004: The VDMS
pages of this website have been updated to reflect changes in version 3.21.
March 2004: Current versions of MRA's comprehensive
vehicle models are:
18 March 2004: Flutenews, the magazine of the
Vauxhall Owners Club 1903 to 1957, has allowed us to post their book review of Chassis Design: Principles and
Analysis.
September 2003: Doug Milliken starts his
second (academic) year of student lectures supported by the SAE Foundation.
See the SAE
Industrial Lecture Program for details.
5 May 2003: Race
Car Vehicle Dynamics: Problems, Answers and Experiments is now
available, published by SAE. This 300 page update to the original RCVD
Workbook includes many new problems, detailed solutions to all questions
and simple measurements and experiments which can be performed on your own
vehicle. The accompanying CD contains simple vehicle dynamics programs.
10 June 2002: For your convenience, the
MRA website now has a Site Map.
23 May 2002: The Rolls-Royce Owners'
Club has given us permission to reprint their book
review of Chassis Design: Principles and Analysis.
31 March 2002: An Errata Listing is now available on the MRA
website for Chassis Design: Principles and Analysis.
15 March 2002: MRA's VDMS vehicle
simulation is now listed by The Mathworks (developers of MATLAB/Simulink)
on their MATLAB Connections Program page. Please contact MRA if you have
questions that are not covered in the VDMS Tour.
19 February 2002: The Millikens' new book, Chassis Design: Principles and Analysis,
based on previously unpublished technical notes by Maurice Olley, is now
available from SAE.
14 September 2001: Milliken Research
Associates announces the launching of its website
"www.millikenresearch.com"
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