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, Northrop Grumman
"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" Brian Binnie (M), Scaled Composites Mike Melvill (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)