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CANADIAN AERONAUTICS AND SPACE INSTITUTE CASI TORONTO FLYER MARCH 2019, Volume 26 #4 Toronto Branch Membership Newsletter THE FLYER WILL BE PUBLISHED ON A BI-MONTHLY BASIS UNTIL A NEW EDITOR VOLUNTEERS NEWSLETTER LINKS Our current Executives are: CASI AERO Click on the links below to move to Chairman other sections of the Newsletter Chris Hayball Vice Chair & Flyer Editor Local News Gillian Clinton Industry News Councillor Academic News Alex Tsoulis Museum News Treasurer Bhavik Mody Education Chair UPCOMING CASI EVENTS Amir Masoud Tahvilian Secretary Our next CASI Toronto Branch Fatemeh Mousavilar meeting will take place on March 21st at UTIAS. Jim Martin, of Strangford Aviation Consulting Services, will talk about The SPREAD THE WORD Development, Flight Test and Certification of the Canadair CL- Help us to publicize our Toronto Click for more information. 600 Challenger. Branch meetings. Share your meeting notice with friends and Watch our Facebook page for colleagues, and post them around CASI ASTRO information about CASI Toronto your school or workplace. Branch meetings. THERE IS A $5 CHARGE FOR YOUR NEWSLETTER NON-MEMBERS The CASI Toronto Flyer brings you l o c a l a e r o s p a c e n e w s . CONTACT US Suggestions and/or contributions are always welcome. If you’ve Get in touch with CASI Toronto been to an interesting lecture or Branch Executive with questions, want to see coverage of an comments or suggestions: aerospace business in southern [email protected] or Ontario, let us know. on Facebook (“CASI Toronto”). Contact the Editor at: Contact information for specific [email protected] Executive members and additional event information is also available Click for more information. on the CASI website. LOCAL NEWS Upcoming Events CAHS Toronto Chapter When: Saturday, April 6, 2019 Time: 1:00 PM Location: Canadian Forces Aerospace in Ontario is a series of College, 215 Yonge Blvd. at networking events in Toronto for Wilson Avenue, Toronto (Lt.–Gen aerospace industry collaboration, Guy Simonds Auditorium) idea exchange and policy discussion. All aviation enthusiasts are welcome! Wednesday, March 13, 2019 More information is available at: Canadian Student Summit Two-hour networking event with a www.cahs.ca/chapters/toronto on Aerospace focus on industry and academic members coming together to March 8-10, 2019 shape the future of the aerospace Ryerson University, Sears Atrium, industry in Ontario. Beyond Horizons 245 Church Street (3rd Floor) CWIA 2019 Conference Agenda: 6:30 - 6:45 Invited Speakers: June 19-22, Ottawa • Martin Hebert | Canadian Context Setting - Aerospace Space Agency Society • Phillip Arthurs | Downsview 6:45 - 7:15 Aerospace Innovation and Keynote Speech: Future of Research Aeronautics - Dr. Ian Fejtek • Maj. Christopher Bryan | 7:15 - 8:00 Department of National Panel Discussion - Invited Defense Industry and Academic Guests The 2019 Canadian Women in • Emily Gleeson | Ryerson 8:00 - 8:30 Networking Aviation Conference is shaping University Ph.D. Candidate up to be an exciting event with Registration and Information many speakers already confirmed. • Robert Corcoran | MDA The conference opening keynote Corporation speaker is Dee Brasseur, one of the first two female RCAF CF-18 • Eric Choi | Magellan Aerospace fighter pilots in the world, along with Jane Foster. • Lauren Reid | UTIAS, Airbus Graduate Program Karen McCrimmon, Member of Parliament for Kanata-Carleton, Information and registration. will be the gala keynote speaker. Page 2 She was the first female Navigator Recent Events we’ll be doing in 2023 and 2024 in the RCAF, and the first woman when we do our initial to command a CF Air Force c h a r a c t e r i z a t i o n a n d Squadron: 429 Transport Evening with an Asteroid understanding; it’s about what will Squadron in Trenton, Ontario. we be asking 30, 40, 50 years Currently, Karen is Parliamentary TORONTO – January 25 – 2019 from now...We have people who Secretary to the Minister of Public here on Earth began with the haven’t yet been born who will be S a f e t y a n d E m e r g e n c y sample return mission OSIRIS- working on these samples.” Preparedness. REx successfully entering orbit Max King is a current Master’s Ashley Barker, Search and Rescue around the asteroid Bennu. student in Aerospace Engineering Technician, was one of two women Canada has been instrumental in among the eight graduates this this mission, supplying the at the University of Toronto, year from the Canadian Forces OSIRIS-REx Laser Altimeter (OLA) specializing in microsatellite School of Search and Rescue, which is the instrument that will engineering. He is actively CFB Comox. The Air Force Para- provide the 3D map of Bennu over involved in scientific outreach, and Rescue specialists are responsible the next 19 months. provides public talks and for saving lives of Canadians workshops to bring his passion of caught in a variety of situations On January 25th, a panel was held space exploration to an ever wider over land and sea. Since she was at the Royal Ontario Museum to audience. young, Ashley had a passion for discuss the progress so far of adventure and medicine and now OSIRIS-REx, and how the next [email protected] she is in a position to render phase of sample collection will medical care to casualties. proceed. The four panelists were If you missed the panel discussion Elizabeth Cameron, Vice senior mission scientist at the last week at the Royal Ontario President, Labour Relations, NAV Canadian Space Agency Dr. Tim Canada, will be giving a seminar Haltigin, Canadian space policy Museum (ROM) in Toronto about on negotiating for women. She is advocate and advisor Kate the OSIRIS-REx mission, you can responsible for developing labour Howells, the ROM’s Curator of watch it at YouTube. relations strategies and mandates Mineralogy Dr. Kim Tait, and lead for collective bargaining. scientist for the mission’s laser altimeter Dr. Mike Daly of York Editor’s Note: If you attend an Bill Tibbo, a corporate clinical interesting lecture or conference, c o n s u l t a n t an d dis a s t e r University. Moderating the panel was Discovery Channel Daily share your thoughts with the CASI management specialist, will also membership. be giving a seminar on critical Planet host Dr. Dan Riskin. incident stress management. His With the breadth of knowledge unique approach to crisis response onstage, the discussion spanned emphasizes the human element of from the origins of the mission, the l e a d e r s h i p a n d g u i d e s organizations to put people first. on-orbit operation of the spacecraft, the science potential Earlybird registration, including and outcomes, and the long term student rates, is available until impact this mission has for April 1. Click here for further Canadian science and space details on conference registration exploration. and accommodations. In summarizing the long term value Many thanks to Victor Ujimoto, for Canada in these types of Ph.D, Professor Emeritus at the University of Guelph for this notice. missions, Dr. Tim Haltigin said “For me, this isn’t about the science Page 3 INDUSTRY NEWS “We’re partnering with a company that has a strong reputation in rotable parts, as well as excellent Q400 operator relationships and end-to-end global logistics,” said Bombardier’s Oliver Towers, the President of Award-winning Global 7500 Dowty Propellers. 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