2004 REPORT

TO THE AEROSPACE PROFESSION

FORTY EIGHTH SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS

SEPTEMBER 2004

THE WESTIN BONAVENTURE LOS ANGELES, CALIE ISSN #0742-3705 TABLE OF CONTENTS

SESSION I

Chairman: Bruce D. Remick (M), FAA

"F-16 E/F Flight Test Program" William A. Flynn (AF), Lockheed Martin Stephen Barter (M), Lockheed Martin (Paper not available for publication)

"Flight Testing the Automatic Air Collision

Avoidance System (AUTO ACAS)" 2 Maj James Less, USAF (M) Maj Scott Wierzbanowski, USAF (M)

"The Challenges o/Morphing a Crop Duster

Into a Sport Parachute Aircraft" 19

Sean C. Roberts (F), National Test Pilot School

Gregory V. Lewis (F), National Test Pilot School

"F-16C/D 600-Gallon Fuel Tank Certification

in the Republic of Singapore Air Force" 38

Vincent Phang, Rep. of Singapore AF

"B-2A Integration of the Smart Bomb Rack Assembly" Maj William Power, USAF (AM) (Paper not available for publication)

SESSION II

Chairman: CAPT Michael V. Rabens, USN (AF)

"F/A-18 E/F Transonic Flying Qualities (TFQI)

Improvement Program" 53 LT Bill Thames, USN Peter Dougherty, NAVAIR

in "F-16 M3 OT&E of the Royal

Netherlands Air Force"

Maj Harry van Hulten, RNLAF

(Paper not available for publication)

"Boundary Escape Tracking:

A new Conception ofHazardous PIO" 67 Bill Gray (AF), USAF TPS

"Test Program to address V-22 Uncommanded Roll

" while on the deck of an Amphibious Assault Ship 92 Maj Dave Thorn, USMC

John Nelson, NAVAIR Eric deBrun, Boeing

"Flight Testing for Required Navigation Performance (RNP)

and GNSS Landing Systems (GLS)" 101

Tom Imrich (M), The Boeing Company

"Wake Turbulence - A Threat

to Unstable Fighters" 131

Lt Col Robert Hierl, GAF (M)

Sittipong Graison, German Aeronautics

and Space Research Agency, DLR

SESSION III

Chairman: Jerry Gallagher (M), USN TPS

"F-2 Pylon Induced Vibration" 164 Maj N. Higuchi, JASDF Capt T. Yamasaki, JASDF

IV "Hawker Horizon Flight Control System Development"

Steve Wenke, Raytheon

Michael G. Watson, Raytheon

(Paper not released for publication)

"The Evolution of Cockpit Design Leading to the Planeview Cockpit" 173 Kent Crenshaw (AF), Gulfstream Aerospace

"Beware ofRaptors with Open Doors:

The F/A-22 Safe Separations Program" 189 Maj Charles Havasy, USAF John A. Fergione (F), Lockheed Martin

"Loss of Columbia: The Technical

Investigation Story" CAPT Gregory Johnson, USNR (Paper not available for publication)

"Synthetic and Enhanced Vision Research"

Dr. Mike Norman

(Paper not available for publication)

SESSION IV-

Chainnan: Robert Stoney (M), FAA

"Global Express ASTOR

(Airborne Standoff Radar)" 204 Mark Schlegel (AF), Bombardier

v "Lancair 400 Spin Testing and Spin Chute Release Failure" 214

Leonard A. Fox (M), L.A. Fox Unlimited

"Cessna Citation CJ3

Development and Certification" Russ Williams (M), Cessna (Paper not available for publication)

"N-l to B-2: Fifty Years of Flight-Testing Northrop'sFlying Wings" 222 William A. Flanagan,

"Super-Charging the Super Hornet" 249

Maj M. G. Kelly, USMC Ricardo Traven (M), Boeing

"The SystemApproach to Spin/Stall Parachute

Recovery Systems, a Five Year Update" 263

Tony Taylor, Irvin Aerospace

SESSION V

Chairman: Blaine Hammond, Gulfstream Aerospace

"MC-130E/HMassive Ordnance Air Blast Test" 297

Maj Phil Edwards, USAF (M)

Lt Col Andrew White, USAF (M)

Lt Col Dave Brown, USAF

"Nature's Aircraft: Power to Mass, Morphing

and How Birds Use Half a Wing" 311

Dr. Kenneth P. Dial, University ofMontana

vi "100th Anniversary Wright Brothers

Flight Attempt at Kitty Hawk"

A. Scott Crossfield (F)

(Paper not available for publication)

"SpaceShipOne Update" (M), (AF), Scaled Composites

Peter Siebold (AM), Scaled Composites

(Paper not available for publication)

"SETP Panel on Pilot Rating Scales" 319

George E. Cooper (F) Robert P. Harper (F)