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NASA's Newest Ready for Space Station, Moon, and Missions – Houston, TX 13 candidates (ASCANs) from Group 22 graduated from NASA's astronaut training program on 10 January 2020. Nicknamed the "Turtles," the Group was made up of 11 NASA candidates and two from the (CSA). Of the 13 incredible backgrounds of these new Astronauts, five have backgrounds in Flight Test: , graduated from the USN School (TPS) in Patuxent River, MD. Chari served as the commander of the 461st Flight Test Squadron and the director of the F-35 Integrated Test Force at Edwards AAFB. , also graduated from the USN TPS and was a test pilot for the Carrier Suitability department at NAS Patuxent River. Bob Hines, graduated from USAF TPS and served as a test pilot on all models of the F-15 while earning a master's in aerospace engineering from the University of . He has deployed in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Prior to being selected as an astronaut, he was a Federal Aviation Administration test pilot and a NASA research pilot at Johnson. , distinguished graduate of the USN TPS. She came to NASA from Yuma, AZ, where she tested H-1 helicopters and served as the quality assurance and avionics officer for Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron 1. , holds a master's degrees in space studies, flight test engineering, and defense studies. Prior to joining CSA, Kutryk worked as an experimental test pilot and a fighter pilot in Cold Lake, Alberta, where he led the unit responsible for the operational flight testing of fighter aircraft in Canada. NBC News

Pilotless Air Taxi from China’s Ehang takes flight in the US for the first time – Raleigh, NC Chinese drone maker Ehang demonstrated its autonomous air taxi in the US for the first time. The all- electric two-seater took flight for five minutes above a test track south of Raleigh, NC, on Tuesday afternoon, with approximately 100 people, including the state’s governor, Roy Cooper, looking on. It represents the first time that Ehang has received permission to fly from the US FAA, and it helped set the stage for it to receive approval for passenger demonstrations in the near future. The Ehang 216, powered by 16 electric rotors, flew along a pre-planned route at over 80 mph. The aircraft weighs about 600 pounds and can carry another 500 to 600 pounds of cargo or passengers, the company says. Ehang says it has conducted over 2,000 trial flights in China, Austria, the Netherlands, Qatar, the UAE, and now in the US. Ehang recently received approval from Chinese regulators to launch a commercial air mobility service in Guangzhou. As part of the pilot program, Ehang is working with the Guangzhou government to set up an air traffic control center. On the passenger front, Ehang has said it plans to use the pilot program to test more flight routes and “vertiports” from which its electric aircraft would take off and land. The company also plans to cargo deliveries of low-weight medical supplies, including blood and organs for emergency use. The Verge

Critical Incident Response Program (CIRP) STRESS MANAGEMENT INFORMATION INFORMATION FOR FAMILY MEMBERS AND FRIENDS Share the following information/suggestions with those close to you. • Offer your assistance. Realize a crewmember who has been involved in an accident may not know what he or she needs or wants. • If you don’t know how to help, call for assistance from the CIRP. • Spend time with the traumatized person even if you don’t say anything. Just be there. • Listen carefully without offering advice. Don’t try to “fix” the situation. • Don’t take the person’s anger or other feelings personally. • Be prepared for mood swings. People experience trauma and cope with its aftermath in different ways. Respect these differences. • Give the traumatized person private time. • Go for a walk together outdoors. • Help them with everyday tasks. Most people will not call and ask for help. • Create an environment in which it feels safe to share. Don’t attempt to force traumatized persons to talk if they don’t want to. • Be sensitive to the fact that adhering to a pre-established routine sometimes helps reorient the individual to prior functioning levels. • A sensitive touch, a caring embrace, or someone sitting quietly nearby may also be supportive while individuals sift through some of their own issues. • Most of the time, a barrage of help is available immediately after a traumatic event. But, as days and weeks go on, your friend or peer may need your help even more. Stay in touch! • Don’t try to analyze the behaviors that may become apparent. Acceptance and support are the key elements of providing comfort. • If a loved one has died, we cannot make grief less painful. Avoid saying “I’m sorry for your loss.” Instead, simply say how sorry you are that they are going through such a difficult time. • Don’t avoid talking about the event because you don’t know what to say or fear you may say the wrong thing. A sincere expression of concern or asking how things are for them is very beneficial. • Don’t tell them that they are “lucky it wasn’t worse.” Traumatized people are not consoled by such statements. Instead, tell them that you are sorry such an event has occurred and you want to understand and help. • Don’t tell them, “It is God’s will.” They may not share your concept of life and God. • Don’t say, “You should be over this by now.” People may take months or years to recover from a serious trauma or the loss of a loved one. • Don’t say, “Everything will be okay.” You don’t know that it will. • Don’t say, “I know how you feel.” No one knows how anyone else feels without listening carefully. • Don’t talk about your own incidents or accidents even though theirs may remind you of yours. You may be surprised how difficult this is to do. • Don’t ask how they feel unless you really want to know and have time to listen. • Keep “curious questions” for your own self-satisfaction in their appropriate place. A later time might be more beneficial to everyone. Ask them if they mind talking about the event before you ask questions. Explain why you want to know what happened. Remember, CIRP volunteers are not interested in details of the event, but only reactions to the event. • Resist telling people how they should feel and try to let them know you have heard how they do feel. • Call for help for yourself when you feel overwhelmed. Remember, the CIRP is also designed to help family members and significant others.

SFTE and SETP have been involved with CIRP for several years and have been providing assistance as requested for different incidences. The SFTE Board in 2020 will be trying to further organize and educate our members on what CIRP is and the benefits it can provide our members. Thanks to Boeing’s efforts over the last several years, numerous SETP and SFTE members have been trained, but the implementation by the two societies still needs improvement. SFTE is planning to continue development of this benefit for our members down to the chapter level. More information will follow in subsequent messages and will soon be posted to our website.

New Episode - Flight Test Safety Podcast Channel The Flight Test Safety Committee has begun producing a monthly podcast to share valuable, relevant, and helpful information across our audience of SETP, SFTE and AIAA members and anyone who is interested in safety. Each podcasts will contain information from the latest issue of our digital publication, the Flight Test Safety Fact, and include a special topic of the month. These Specialty topics will include presentations from recent Symposia, interviews, panel discussions and much more. Click the links below to listen to the Second Episode of the Flight Test Safety Channel! Listen on iTunes Listen on Google Play Listen on Spotify Listen on Podbean

2020 Flight Test Safety Workshop - Call for Presentations 2020 Flight Test Safety Workshop 5-7 May 2020 Denver, Colorado DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Denver Tech Center

Gene Kranz famously coined the term “Tough and Competent” in his “Kranz Dictum” to describe the “price of admission” to the ranks of NASA Mission Control. Would you argue with the guy that was central to bringing the Apollo 13 crew home safe? For him, “Tough” related to uncompromised responsibilities, and total accountability for actions. “Competent” related to knowledge and skill, and never being deficient in either. Transposing this to SMS Safety Promotion suggests that we are sufficiently trained to perform to the competencies required by our flight test organization and the SMS (you do have SMS don’t you?). Training underpins all critical functions and effective communications enables awareness and continuous learning. The 2020 edition of the Flight Test Safety Workshop will anchor on training, education and communication as it relates to flight test safety.

Come join us in the Mile High City as we focus on Safety Promotion, the 4th major component of the Safety Management System (SMS). We want to hear from test organizations on their successes or challenges in providing necessary training for testers and the means to ensure safety-critical information is shared broadly. Perhaps share your SMS implementation strategy and the tools/methods that paved the way for a positive safety culture. In short, tell us what “Tough and Competent” means to your organization.

Presentations should be limited to 25 minutes. Please send presentation/briefing proposals to the 2020 Flight Test Safety Workshop Chairman, Jeff Mabry via [email protected] . If you should have any questions regarding submitting an abstract please contact Susan Bennett.

The deadline for abstracts is 10 February 2020 to allow time for appropriate consideration and inclusion in the program.

Hotel Information: DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Denver Tech Center 7801 E Orchard Rd Greenwood Village, CO 80111 Phone: (303) 779-6161

A limited block of rooms is reserved at the government per diem rate of $181.00 per night. Please visit: https://www.setp.org/symposium/meetings/workshop/ to book your room. Please reserve your room by Sunday, 12 April 2020 in order to guarantee this rate.

Chapter News

Wichita Chapter 16 January, 5:00pm Monthly Beer Call Aero Plains Brewing, 5:00pm

South Chapter

Miguel Iturmendi Perlan Project 21 January, 6:00 pm Mandel Public Library, 3rd Floor, Clematis Room 401 Clematis Street, West Palm Beach, FL 33401 $10 for cost of room, pizza and drinks

European Chapter

31st SFTE European Chapter Symposium - Call for Papers (attached) Aviation in the 2020’s Future Challenges for Flight Testing and Certification European Test & Telemetry Conference - Call for Papers 23-25 June 2020 Nuremberg, Germany www.ettc2020.org

The human influence on Earth’s nature and the development of environmentally friendly technologies lately got into the focus of general public. The aerospace industry has been working for a long time to reduce CO2 footprint, investigating electric mobility and future means of transportation like unmanned air taxies. One can follow projects like clean sky, all electric aircraft, fellowFly and many more. Some of these require radically new ways of thinking: • Does it make sense to test one-engine-out climb performance on an electric aircraft with 36 of them? • How to certify single/no pilot cockpits? • How to organize air traffic in cities full of personal commuter drones or airliners flying in fuel-saving formation?

Abstracts Abstracts of ½ page are welcome in PDF format, papers reflecting the above theme will be favoured. The abstract should include: • Title of the paper, author(s) name(s), organisation, E-mail address, phone number • Scope, objectives • Major conclusion(s) • Attachment: short author(s) biography

Requested Topics Include • Test techniques for unconventional aircraft configurations • Challenges for design and test of future air vehicles • Certification requirements • Air Traffic Control • Experiences and Lessons Learned helping future projects to succeed • Topics outside main scope will also be considered for acceptance

Abstract Deadline 15 April 2020 for SFTE European Symposium Only Send Abstracts to: [email protected] Notification of paper selection: 15 April Final paper submittal due: 31 May 31st

Abstract deadline 24 January 2020 for ETTC Section Only For ETTC you are invited to submit an abstract (~200 words) to [email protected] along with the following information: author, contact information like company affiliation, email address, mailing address, and phone number. Papers will be judged based on their scientific and technical content, relevance to the scope of the conference and originality. An acceptance notification and instructions will be sent by 16 March 2020. Final manuscripts — not exceeding 10 pages in length — are required by 30 April 2020. Please note that the conference enforces the “no paper, no podium” rule. Contact Conference Chairman Renaud UrliM at [email protected]

SETP Technical Paper Database Now Accessible to SFTE Members The Society of Experimental Test Pilots is happy to announce that SFTE Members now have access to the SETP Technical Paper Database through a special guest login. This access is part of a reciprocal agreement and SETP hopes that sharing content between the two organizations will help better serve the Flight Test Community. This access is a benefit of SETP and SFTE Membership, so please be sure to keep the login private. Should we feel the guest login has been compromised, we will reset the credentials and reevaluate how we share the login information. Note: although you may see the SETP Members Menu Tabs on the left-hand side of the screen, SFTE Guests only have access to the Paper Search. If you have any questions or issues, please contact Susan Bennett, [email protected]

Sincerely, Bill Gray (F) President, The Society of Experimental Test Pilots

SFTE Technical Paper Database

SFTE Technical Paper Database: http://zdana.net/SFTE_papers_database_advanced_search.html The database is only for SFTE, SETP, and FTSA members.

Non-members can purchase tech papers for $15 each at: https://www.123signup.com/register?id=rszxv

Jobs

Experienced Flight Test Engineer (L2) At Boeing, we are all innovators on a mission to connect, protect, explore and inspire. From the seabed to outer space, you’ll learn and grow, contributing to work that shapes the world. Find your future with us. The Boeing Company is currently seeking Engineers to join our Flight Test team performing developmental and certification testing of commercial airplanes and military derivatives. The team operates primarily out of Boeing Field in Seattle, Washington with some testing in Everett and Renton, as well as occasional testing at various domestic and international sites for up to 2-4 weeks at a time. https://jobs.boeing.com/job/seattle/experienced-level-flight-test-engineer/185/14767396

Flight Test Engineer De Havilland Aircraft of Canada is currently searching for a Flight Test Engineer to join its team in Toronto. This role will report to the director, flight operations. The Dash8-400 program has nearly 600 aircraft flying in over 40 different countries with over 40 operators. This is your chance to join a well- established team of highly experienced professionals developing new designs for tomorrow’s turboprop aircraft. https://www.aerospacetestinginternational.com/job/flight-test-engineer-6

Senior Flight Test Engineer Job Opening Joby Aviation is a leader in the world of commercial eVTOL for the urban mobility market. Operating in secret for the last 10 years, few are aware of Joby’s progress, with a full scale aircraft currently in piloted flight test and very significant investment funding secured. Joby’s all electric VTOL airplane will transport 4 passengers and one pilot more than 100 miles, at up to 200mph, and is targeting FAA certification by the end of 2022. Operating from Santa Cruz in the San Francisco Bay area, Joby is seeking an experienced flight test engineer to lead flight test execution for Joby. We are looking for the highest caliber of individual, with exceptionally strong intellectual, technical and engineering skills, as well as a huge drive and a determination to work on one of the exciting aerospace projects of our time. Further details can be found on the job posting here: https://hire.withgoogle.com/public/jobs/jobyaviationcom/view/P_AAAAAADAADeC-VyyLOhqde

International Test Pilots School London, Ontario, Canada Immediate Openings 1. Aircraft Life Saving Equipment Engineer (ALSEE) – salary $77,896 2. Tactical Flight Instructor – salary $120K to $140K 3. Flight Test Engineer and Instructor – salary $115K to $150K 4. Flight Test Instrument Technician – salary $77,896 5. Flight Test Instructor – salary $140K to $175K Applicants please email: [email protected] For more details: http://sfte.org/jobs/ All figures in Canadian dollars

Membership

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2020 Calendar 16 January Wichita Chapter Monthly Beer Call, Aero Plains Brewing, 5:00pm 21 January South Florida Chapter - Miguel Iturmendi (Perlan Project), Mandel Public Library, West Palm Beach 24 January ETTC Abstract deadline (ETTC Section Only, not SFTE) 7 February North Chapter/SETP - 1st Friday at the Flying Saucer, Fort Worth 10 February Flight Test Safety Workshop Abstracts due 21 February South Florida Chapter - Engineer’s Week 6 March North Texas Chapter/SETP - 1st Friday at the Flying Saucer, Fort Worth 16 March ETTC acceptance notification and instructions sent 20 March South Florida Chapter - Bill Fell (S97 Raider Testing) 3 April North Texas Chapter/SETP - 1st Friday at the Flying Saucer, Fort Worth 12 April Hilton DoubleTree reservations due for Flight Test Safety Workshop, Denver, CO 15 April SFTE European Chapter Symposium Abstracts due, [email protected] 17 April South Florida Chapter - Social 30 April ETTC Final Manuscripts Due 1 May North Texas Chapter/SETP - 1st Friday at the Flying Saucer, Fort Worth 4-7 May SFTE/SETP/AIAA Flight Test Safety Workshop, Denver, CO 15 May South Florida Chapter - Andy Fama (UH-1N Testing) 31 May SFTE European Chapter Symposium final papers due 5 June North Texas Chapter/SETP - 1st Friday at the Flying Saucer, Fort Worth 23-25 June 2020 SFTE European Chapter Symposium, European Test & Telemetry Conference, Nuremberg, Germany 26 June South Florida Chapter – Social 3 July North Texas Chapter/SETP - 1st Friday at the Flying Saucer, Fort Worth 24 July South Florida Chapter - Carol Sugars (Alternative Energy) 7 August North Texas Chapter/SETP - 1st Friday at the Flying Saucer, Fort Worth 21 August South Florida Chapter – Social 4 September North Texas Chapter/SETP - 1st Friday at the Flying Saucer, Fort Worth 18 September South Florida Chapter - Weiss School (Presentation) 2 October North Texas Chapter/SETP - 1st Friday at the Flying Saucer, Fort Worth 16 October South Florida Chapter – Social 19-22 October 51st Annual SFTE International Symposium, St. Louis, MO 6 November North Texas Chapter/SETP - 1st Friday at the Flying Saucer, Fort Worth 13 November South Florida Chapter – End of Year Function 4 December North Texas Chapter/SETP - 1st Friday at the Flying Saucer, Fort Worth

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