AUGUST 2013 VOL. XLII, No. 3

Published by and for the AIAA Long Island Section, P.O. Box 491, Bethpage, NY 11714 OFFICERS: Chairman: Dave Paris (516) 458-8593 [email protected] Vice-Chair: Greg Homatas (718) 812-2727 [email protected] Secretary: Ed Deutsch (516) 781-2262 [email protected] Treasurer: W. Glenn Mackey (631) 368-0433 [email protected] COUNCIL MEMBERS: Anthony Agnone, Nick DiZinno, Joseph Fragola, Muhammad Hayan, Frank Hayes, Jason Herman, Peter Kontogiannis, John Leylegian,

Emil Schoonejans, and Jason Tyll

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Note from the Chairman

Our new Program Chairman, Dr. Joseph Fragola, has organized a series of lectures on space-related topics for the 2013-14 year. Some details are still pending, but we are excited at the prospect of bringing these distinguished speakers to Long Island. Starting with Astronaut Dr. Don Pettit, continuing with FAA Associate Administrator George Neild and executives from Sierra Nevada and Orbital Sciences, and culminating with NASA Administrator/AIAA President Dr. Michael Griffin, our program will cover topics from experiments in space, to commercial operations in space to human EVENTS CALENDAR is on Page 2 spaceflight. These are important areas for the future economic health of our industry and our nation. These lectures offer an unique opportunity to learn about our There are too many section, local and national events to space program. fit in this small space, so please turn to page 2 for the list of upcoming events. For those still receiving a paper copy of the FLIER, if you have a valid e-mail address and would prefer an e-mailed copy, please send your e-mail address to John Leylegian, (718) 862-7279, [email protected]

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EVENTS CALENDAR

Sept. 10 – 12, AIAA Space 2013 Conference and Exposition, San Diego

Sept. 12, Leroy Douglas, "86 Years in Aviation: The

Origins and Development of Republic Airport: 1927-

2013." At the Bethpage Public Library. See page 3.

Sept. 15 – 21, National Aerospace Week

Sept. 17, Orbital Science planned launch to the ISS of a cargo spacecraft on an Antares rocket

Sept. 19, EJCLI Ethics Seminar, at Dave & Busters, Details on page. 4.

October 21, AOPA/Air Safety Institute/FAA Pilot Safety Seminar, at CoAM

October 23, Dr. Don Pettit, NASA Astronaut. “Techno- Stories from Space.” At Hofstra Univ. Details on page 5.

Jan. 11, 2014, Model Airplane Contest at CoAM 1230 New Highway, Farmingdale, New York, 11735 At the northeast corner of Republic Airport

Jan. 16, 2014, John Durning, NASA Deputy Project

Manager, James Webb Space Telescope Project, “James

Webb Space Telescope” National Aerospace Week

Feb. 2014, MESC Engineers Week Meeting, at Established by the Aerospace Industries Polytechnic Institute of NYU, details pending. Association in 2010 as an opportunity for the February 13, 2014, EJCLI Engineers Week Seminars, at aerospace and defense industry and its supporters Dave & Busters in Farmingdale, details TBA. to recognize the enormous contribution that the industry makes to America’s national security, March 13, George Neild, FAA Associate Administrator economy and competitiveness. America’s for Commercial Space Transportation, “Commercial aerospace and defense industry employs more Space Transportation.” Commercial Space Lecture 1 than one million workers in all 50 states, keeps

Apr. 24, William Claybaugh, Orbital Science Corp. our men and women in uniform safe and

Senior Director, Human Space Systems, Commercial successful on the battlefield, ensures that more Space Lecture 2, topic TBD than 18,000 commercial flights daily arrive safely

May 14, Dr. John Turner, Sierra Nevada, Director, and efficiently, and enables us to explore the Safety and Mission Assurance, Commercial Space frontiers of space and discover new and Lecture 3, topic TBD unimaginable technologies in the process. Aerospace sales reached $269.8 billion in 2012 – June 5, 2014, Dr. Michael Griffin, past NASA exports were $99.3 billion fueling a positive trade Administrator and past AIAA President. “National balance of $65.7 billion, the largest of any Security and Human Spaceflight.” Details in a future manufacturing sector. Across every segment of FLIER. our industry – national security, civil and space –

international opportunities are more important Sept. 24, 2014, Doolittle Blind Flight Commemoration, at CoAM, organized by IEEE and co-sponsored by than ever to U.S. aerospace companies, especially AIAA. Details in a future FLIER. at a time when the federal budget is under great pressure.

For more info: http://nationalaerospaceweek.org/ FLIER 2 AUGUST 2013

AIAA/AFA/IEEE(AES)/IIE Joint Section MEETING

Thursday, September 12, 2013

Leroy Douglas, Long Island Republic Airport Historical Society President

"86 Years in Aviation: The Origins and Development of Republic Airport: 1927-2013"

Location: Bethpage Public Library 47 Powell Avenue Bethpage, NY 11714 RESERVATIONS REQUESTED RSVP BY September 11, 2013 Time: 6:00 PM Social Time to: Nick DiZinno at 6:30 PM Pizza [email protected] or 7:00 PM Presentation (631) 252-3440

Cost for Pizza: $5, Members and Guests Free, for Students

Mr. Douglas will give a slide presentation describing the history of Republic Airport in East Farmingdale. The talk will review the airport's beginnings as an airfield by Sherman Fairchild in 1927 through the Grumman, Seversky and Republic years and will explain how Republic Airport was created in 1966 and developed under the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (1969-1983) and the New York State Department of Transportation from 1983 to the present.

Leroy Douglas has been involved with the Long Island Republic Airport Historical Society since 1984. A retired Social Studies teacher, he has written historical articles about the development of the airport and is its third President. He edits the LIRAHS Newsletter and contributes to LI-Republic Airport Historical Society Facebook page and its website: www.republicairporthistory.org

Directions: The library is west of Route 135 in Bethpage. Take Route 135 to Exit 8, then West on Powell Ave. for about 0.25 miles. The library is on the south side of the street. Park across Powell Ave., opposite the library. FLIER 3 AUGUST 2013

Engineers Joint Committee of Long Island Anthony Cacioppo, P.E, Co-Chair Paul Lanzilotta, PE, Co-Chair

NETWORKING EVENING with DINNER and ETHICS SEMINAR

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Place: Dave & Busters • 261 Airport Plaza Blvd., Farmingdale, NY (631) 249-0708 www.daveandbusters.com

Program: 6:00pm – 7:30pm Networking and Dinner 7:30pm – 9:00pm Seminar (1.5 PDH) 9:00pm – 10:00pm Cash Bar and Networking

Seminar Description: Doing Business with Government; transparency, conflicts of interest, business professional/personal relationships, supporting politicians.

Speaker: Steven G. Leventhal, Esq., a partner with Leventhal, Cursio, Mullaney, and Sliney, LLP. Mr. Leventhal is an attorney and a CPA, with extensive experience in professional ethics. Mr. Leventhal has lectured and written extensively on the subjects of government, legal and corporate ethics. He is the former chair of the Nassau County Board of Ethics and is currently the Board’s legal counsel.

This seminar is approved for the Ethics Seminar requirement by New York State.

To register, complete and submit this form and payment by September 13, 2013 to: Andrew S. Haimes, PE, F.NSPE, 172 Sherry St, East Islip, NY 11730. Phone: 631-859-5190. Email questions to: [email protected]

Fee: $25 (includes Dinner and Seminar)

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Joint AIAA/AFA/IIE/IEEE(AES) Section Meeting

Wednesday, October 23, 2013

Dr. Don Pettit, NASA Astronaut

“Techno-Stories from Space”

Location: Hofstra University Breslin Hall, First Floor, Room 106 Hempstead, NY 11549 RESERVATIONS REQUESTED Time: 6:00 PM Social Time & Pizza RSVP BY October 22, 2013 6:30 PM Presentation to: David Paris at [email protected] Cost for Pizza: $5, Members and Guests or (516) 458-8593 Free, for Students

Frontiers are interesting places partly because they offer the possibility to make observations outside our normal range of experience. The International Space Station (ISS) is such a frontier offering a reduction in acceleration forces by nearly a factor of a million. This allows the observation of subtle phenomena that are typically masked on Earth. The orbital vantage allows observation of Earth phenomena on the length scale of half a continent. Simple observations of such orbital phenomena will be presented. There will be many questions and few answers, which of course is a characteristic of being on a frontier and why we venture there.

Dr. Don Pettit’s Doctorate is in Chemical Engineering. As a staff scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1984 to 1996, his projects included reduced gravity fluid flow and materials processing experiments onboard the NASA KC-135 airplane, atmospheric spectroscopy on noctilucent clouds seeded from sounding rockets, fumarole gas sampling from volcanoes and problems in detonation physics. He was a member of the group assembling the technology to return to the moon and explore Mars (1990) and the Space Station Freedom Redesign Team (1993). Selected by NASA as a scientist astronaut in April 1996, he has logged more than 370 days in space and over 13 EVA (spacewalk) hours during three missions. During his first mission, , from November 2002 to May 2003, he lived aboard the International Space Station as Science Officer for 5-1/2 months and worked on numerous U.S. and Russian science experiments, such as the clumping of solid particles in microgravity. He was a mission specialist on the STS-126 crew in November, 2008. During this 27th shuttle/station assembly mission, the crew expanded the living quarters of the ISS by delivering a new bathroom, kitchenette, two bedrooms, an exercise machine and a water recycling system. During the mission, Dr. Pettit operated the robotic arm for a total of four EVAs performed by three members of the crew. His third mission, Expedition 30/31, from December 2011 to July 2012, lasted 193 days. As Flight Engineer, Pettit continued scientific research, made educational videos, and marked a new era of commercial resupply services from the US when the SpaceX Dragon spaceship docked with the ISS. He was the first astronaut to successfully enter a commercially-built and operated spacecraft docked to the ISS. He flew to and from the ISS both on the and the Russian Soyuz.

Directions: Breslin Hall is on the South Campus of Hofstra University in Hempstead. Take Meadowbrook Parkway Exit M4, west onto Hempstead Turnpike (Route 24). After about 1 mile, turn left onto California Ave. opposite the North Campus entrance. After ¼ mile, turn right into parking lot. Breslin Hall is 0.1 mile ahead, the last building on the right. FLIER 5 AUGUST 2013

REPORT ON AUGUST SECTION MEETING

On August 7, 2013 Professor Jason Kendall, adjunct faculty at William Patterson University, presented a talk to the AIAA Long Island Section on the results of the Planck Mission. The IEEE New York Section and ASME Met Section co-sponsored the event. A total of 85 people attended this summer talk which was held at the Washington Square Institute in the fashionable Greenwich Village section of Manhattan following pizza and soda.

Jason’s talk started with the history of observational astronomy, comparing earth centered versus sun centered cosmology and an overview of various luminaries in the field such as Galileo, Copernicus and Ptolemy.

About 13.8 billion years ago, the Big Bang heralded the origin of our universe, and gave rise to everything and everyone. Instead of just learning stories and myths about how it all started, we live in the era of "precision cosmology." We know the age of the universe better than we know the age of dinosaur bones.

Named after German Nobel Laureate Max Planck, the Planck spacecraft was launched by the (ESA) in 2009 on an Ariane rocket. The purpose of the mission is to study the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).

Jason’s talk took us on a trip through space and time by describing the Planck Mission. The Cosmic Microwave Background, is the light from the beginning of the universe just reaching us now. The talk further illustrated the evidence seen for the Big Bang, and talked about Hubble’s Law and the Red Shift. The following questions were raised by Mr Kendall: While this mission gives us a "baby picture" of the cosmos, how was this light formed? Why is the universe expanding and what is it expanding into? Is there an edge to the Universe? What made the elements in our universe? Did the universe have an inflationary epoch? What happened so that our Milky Way, our Sun and our Earth could form? The Big Bang tells us an amazing story about the creation of everything that is far stranger than anyone could have imagined. This story is still being written, and so, like an unfinished symphony, we can only hear how the story of the Universe's origin goes so far.

Given that there may be more questions than answers as this is new knowledge, one of the key points made by Jason during the talk is that this is all new data that has just recently been digested by the scientific community. Therefore, exciting results are still forthcoming. His talk gave us a taste of what’s to come, so stay tuned.

Greg Homatas

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The Cradle always has great events planned, especially for students.

For details, go to: http://www.cradleofaviation.org/

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