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January - June 2011 January - June 2011 1 THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS President .............................................................................. William A. Flynn, Lockheed Martin Vice President ........................................................................... David Nils Larson, NASA/DFRC Secretary ........................................................................................Douglas A. Benjamin, Boeing Treasurer ................................................................................................Maurice Girard, Cessna Legal Officer ............................................................................................Kevin Prosser, Calspan Executive Advisor ...................................................................................Terry E. Tomeny, Boeing President-Elect ............................................................................................ Steve Rainey, Boeing Technical Advisor ......................................................................... Timothy J. Morey, CAPT, USN Technical Advisor .......................................................................................Mike Wallace, Boeing Canadian Section Representative ...........................................Jason Randall, Transport Canada Central Section Representative ....................................................Mark O. Schlegel, Bombardier East Coast Section Representative ................................................. Thomas W. Huff, CAPT, USN European Section Representative............................................. Jeremy P. Tracy, AgustaWestland Great Lakes Section Representative ............................ Robbie Robinson, ATK Mission Research Northwest Section Representative ................................................................Leon Robert, Boeing Southeast Section Representative ................................................Gary Plumb, DCS Corporation Southwest Section Representative ............................................................ Robert Moreau, FedEx West Coast Section Representative ...................................................Stuart Rogerson, Maj, CAF Paula S. Smith Executive Director CANADIAN SECTION Chairman ................................. Jason Randall CENTRAL SECTION EAST COAST SECTION Chairman .................................. Dan Hinson Chairman ................................. John Tougas Vice Chairman ........................... Don Parker Vice Chairman ........................Eric Mitchell Secretary .................................Scott Whitley Secretary .............................Billy Berryman Treasurer .................................... Jeff Karnes Treasurer ................................Mark Johnson GREAT LAKES SECTION EUROPEAN SECTION Chairman ...........................Robbie Robinson Chairman ..........................Marco Venanzetti Vice Chairman .......................... David Glade Secretary ..........................................Eric Fitz Treasurer ..................................... Sam Ryals NORTHWEST SECTION SOUTHWEST SECTION Chairman ..................................Leon Robert Vice Chairman ..........................Tom Twiggs Chairman ............................... Robert Moreau Secretary ..................................... Ed Kolano Vice Chairman ......................... Aaron Tucker Treasurer ............................. Loran Haworth Secretary/Treasurer ............... Jerry Singleton SOUTHEAST SECTION WEST COAST SECTION Chairman .................................. Gary Plumb Chairman ............................ Stuart Rogerson Vice Chairman .............................Scott Cain Vice Chairman .............................. Rich Burr Secretary/Treasurer .................. Sion Hughes Secretary ..................................Dave Marten Treasurer ...................................Jason Dotter SETP COMMITTEES Flight Test Safety Committee Chairman ................................................................ Maurice Girard Membership Committee Chairman ............................................................................. Eric Hansen 2011 Fellows Coordinating Committee Chairman ....................................................Leo Janssens Publications Committee Chairman ......................................................................... Allen Peterson 2 January - June 2011 SETP 2011 CALENDAR 55th Symposium & Banquet Southwest Section 21-24 September 2011 Flight Test Historical Symposium Grand Californian Hotel & Spa 29 October 2011 Anaheim, CA Frontiers of Flight Museum Love Field, Dallas, TX 5th European Flight Test Safety Workshop 8-10 November 2011 Crowne Plaza Salzburg -THE PITTER Salzburg, Austria 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 ...........................................................................................................5 Editor’s Memo................................................................................................................21 Membership News .........................................................................................................26 2011 Symposium Information .......................................................................................28 2011 Symposium Highlights ..........................................................................................32 Scholarship Foundation News .......................................................................................38 SETP Foundation News .................................................................................................40 Know The Corporate Member........................................................................................45 New Members and Upgrades..........................................................................................47 Who...What...Where ......................................................................................................59 Section News .................................................................................................................61 Book News .....................................................................................................................63 Last Flights.....................................................................................................................66 COVER PHOTO This image shows the F-35 US16E Ejection Seat being tested for JSF Qualification from the Martin-Baker Meteor WA638 which has completed over 550 ejection tests to date. Photo courtesy of Martin-Baker Aircraft Company, Ltd. January - June 2011 3 PRESIDENT’S MEMO The annual Symposium and Banquet approaches and I trust as many of you as possible will travel to Anaheim for what promises to be a first class event. Following the theme of the Centennial of Naval Aviation, the program will focus on many of the highlights of this special year in Naval Aviation history. You will not want to miss it. This year SETP has hosted 10 different symposia and at each venue, the rooms were full of test pilots, flight test engineers and interested folks. The keys to success included great technical presentations on relevant test activities and William A. Flynn (F) relating the lessons learned from on-going programs of all Lockheed Martin sizes and shapes. The hard work of busy testers preparing SETP President presentations and writing technical papers was appreciated by these audiences who came to listen in spite of difficult economic times. I wish to thank everyone who donated their time and effort to participating in these forums. Honest, humble, open communication relating our mistakes, failures and successes from our adventures aids our fellow testers directly as they take on-board the lessons learned to apply to their own work. It has been a very difficult year with the accidents and fatalities we have suffered. Our organization is focused on preventing accidents, communicating what we learn flying and testing aircraft. We relate lessons learned and tell each other how our aircraft and systems have evolved hoping that those who follow us will not suffer our fate. However, as diligent, focused and humble as we may be, we cannot mitigate every risk nor prevent every accident. I wish we could change that. As many will recall, SETP began an association with the Mayday Foundation in recent years. Mayday provides critical incident stress aid to families of aircraft incident or accident victims. The Foundation is based in Germany and is closely associated with the airline industry in Germany and the greater European flying community. Their network provides a very effective web of support to those who need help, including the families of our SETP organization. Mayday has links to similar support groups in the US and Canada, helped by ALPA, and we will forge relationships with the North American network to develop counseling and support for the SETP families left