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Neil Armstrong 1930-2012 July - December 2012 1 the SOCIETY of EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS BOARD of DIRECTORS President July - December 2012 July - December Neil Armstrong 1930-2012 July -December 2012 1 THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS President ........................................................................................... Douglas Benjamin, Boeing Vice President ............................................................................Mark Stucky, Scaled Composites Secretary ............................................................................................................Brett Vance, FAA Treasurer ...............................................................................................Michael Wallace, Boeing Legal Officer ...............................................................................Gary Plumb, DCS Corporation Executive Advisor ........................................................................................ Steve Rainey, Boeing President-Elect .........................................................................................Kevin Prosser, Calspan Technical Advisor ............................................................................................ Greg Lewis, NTPS Technical Advisor ...............................................................Kenneth Weir, Maj Gen, USMC (Ret) Canadian Section Representative .................................Maurice Girard, Bombardier Aerospace Central Section Representative ................................................Stuart Rogerson, Cessna Aircraft East Coast Section Representative ...............................................................John Tougas, Boeing European Section Representative................................................. Jeremy Tracy, AgustaWestland Great Lakes Section Representative .....................................................Robbie Robinson, Textron Northwest Section Representative ....................................................................... Ed Kolano, FAA Southeast Section Representative ......................................................... Darren Wees, Maj, USAF Southwest Section Representative ............................................................ Robert Moreau, FedEx West Coast Section Representative ...................................................... Todd Ericson, Col, USAF Paula S. Smith ................................................................................................. Executive Director CANADIAN SECTION CENTRAL SECTION Chairman .............................. Andy Litavniks Chairman ............................Stuart Rogerson Vice Chairman ................................Jeff Peer Vice Chairman .......................... Dan Hinson Secretary ....................................Chuck Ellis Secretary .................................... Jeff Karnes Treasurer ..............................Maurice Girard Treasurer ................................. Aaron Tobias EAST COAST SECTION EUROPEAN SECTION Chairman ..............................Ignacio Lombo Chairman ................................Eric Mitchell Vice Chairman ......................Bill Berryman Treasurer ................................Mark Johnson NORTHWEST SECTION Chairman .................................... Ed Kolano Vice Chairman .............. Jennifer Henderson GREAT LAKES SECTION Secretary ................................. Gerry Whites Chairman ...........................Robbie Robinson Treasurer ..................................Leon Robert Vice Chairman .......................... David Glade Secretary ..........................................Eric Fitz SOUTHWEST SECTION Treasurer ..................................... Sam Ryals Chairman ................................ Norm Driscoll Vice Chairman ............................Eric Kinney Secretary ........................................ Jim Acree SOUTHEAST SECTION Treasurer ....................................... Jeff Trang Chairman .................................Darren Wees WEST COAST SECTION Vice Chairman ............................ Varun Puri Secretary .................................David Wright Chairman .................................Todd Ericson Treasurer ................................ Travis Burton Vice Chairman ...............Andrew McFarland Treasurer ...................................Jason Dotter SETP COMMITTEES Flight Test Safety Committee Chairman ................................................................ Maurice Girard Membership Committee Chairman ............................................................................. Eric Hansen 2013 Fellows Coordinating Committee Chairman ................................................ Chuck Killberg Publications Committee Chairman ......................................................................... Allen Peterson 2 July - December 2012 SETP 2013 CALENDAR 6th Southeast Symposium 43rd West Coast Symposium 21-22 February 2013 22-23 March 2013 Ramada Plaza Beach Resort, Catamaran Resort, San Diego, CA Ft. Walton Beach, FL 28th East Coast Symposium Flight Test Safety Workshop 12 April 2013 23-25 April 2013 Patuxent River, MD DoubleTree Hotel, New Orleans, LA 3rd Northwest Symposium Great Lakes Symposium 3 May 2013 16 May 2013 The Museum of Flight Wright-Patterson AFB - Banquet Center Seattle, WA Dayton, OH 45th European Symposium 57th Symposium & Banquet 22-25 May 2013 25-28 September 2013 Hotel Husa Princesa, Madrid, Spain Grand Californian Hotel & Spa Anaheim, CA COCKPIT is published by The Society of Experimental Test Pilots Address all correspondence to SETP Publications Chairman, Post Office Box 986, Lancaster, California 93584-0986 661-942-9574 Statements and opinions advanced in technical papers and letters-to-the-editor are those of the authors and do not necessarily coincide with the tenets of The Society of Experimental Test Pilots. Letters to-the-editor are encouraged whenever there are dissenting opinions. Table of Contents: President’s Memo ............................................................................................................4 Technical Articles ...........................................................................................................6 Editor’s Memo................................................................................................................32 Letter to the Editor .........................................................................................................66 2013 Symposium Information .......................................................................................67 Membership News .........................................................................................................70 New Members and Upgrades..........................................................................................71 Who...What...Where ......................................................................................................77 Know The Corporate Member........................................................................................79 Section News .................................................................................................................81 Scholarship Foundation News .......................................................................................85 56th Annual Symposium and Banquet Report ...............................................................86 Request for Nominations .............................................................................................107 Book News ................................................................................................................... 110 Etched in Stone - Remembering Our Friends on Flight 153 ....................................... 112 Last Flights................................................................................................................... 114 July - December 2012 3 PRESIDENT’S MEMO It’s about 2 months into my tenure as your President. The newness hasn’t worn out; I’m still very humbled, honored and excited for this opportunity to serve. I’d like to thank Steve “Hooter” Rainey and his Board of Directors for giving me the stick with our Society so well-trimmed and running smoothly. I hope to continue the vector our Society is on: excellent, relevant and engaged. We have exactly 2400 members, and conducted 11 symposia this past year. I attended almost all of them in person, and found the passion of the attendees for flight test and quality of the papers that were presented to be simply exceptional. It’s different out beyond Anaheim – I felt very connected to where flight test is actually happening. Douglas Benjamin (F) We have already started a great year of symposia. The The Boeing Company Southwest Section Flight Test Historical Symposium in SETP President Dallas was illuminating to see from where we’ve come, and a very broad spectrum of papers were presented, ranging from the story of Frederick “TRAP” Trapnell, for whom the airfield at NAS Patuxent River is named; to Walter Cunningham telling us about the longest first flight in history with the launch of Apollo 7. Our next event was the European Flight Test Safety Workshop in Salzburg, Austria, where the focus was “Loss of Control”. Dr. Dieter Reisinger put together some excellent sessions that challenged manufacturers and operators on areas to improve to solve the leading cause of transport aircraft fatalities. This directly supports our primary goal to improve flight test safety. We have a full plate of symposia next year, starting off with the Southeast Section symposium in Fort Walton
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