8:45am - 9:15am 12:00pm - 1:15pm “Collective Limit Characterization of the SPOUSE’S EVENT CH-53D Helicopter” 22 September 2011 LUNCH - No formal luncheon is scheduled FRIDAY NIGHT RECEPTION The Mission Inn Hotel & Spa Casey Gaines, NAVAIR Capt Frederic Neubert, USMC 5:00pm - 12:00am - Free use of Disneyland Park 8:00am - Continental Breakfast - Sequoia Foyer SESSION II 1:15pm - 5:00pm, Thursday, 22 September 2011 Emanual Perez, NAVAIR 6:00pm - 8:30pm - Reception at Festival Arena inside Disneyland Chairman: Maurice Girard (AF), Cessna CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 9:15am - 9:45am 7:30am - 8:30am, Thursday, 22 September 2011 1:15pm - 1:45pm “Project Dragon Spear: Weaponizing the MC-130W” CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST Sequoia Foyer “Engineering and Operational Testing of the Maj Andy Jutte, USAF 7:30am - 8:30am, Saturday, 24 September 2011 Next Generation Transport, XC-2” 9:45am - 10:00am-Coffee Break Sequoia Foyer OPENING CEREMONIES Capt Shinichiro Wakisaka, JASDF 10:00am - 10:30am Capt Atsuro Nishiyama, JASDF SESSION V Sequoia Ballroom “Planning For Your Family’s Future” Workshop 8:30am - 12:00pm, Saturday, 24 September 2011 8:30am - 8:45am, Thursday, 22 September 2011 1:45pm - 2:15pm 10:00am - Trillium Room Chairman: Ricardo Traven (F), Boeing “Helicopter Automatic Approach to Oil Rigs” General Chairman: Ronald Doeppner (M), Sikorsky “NIMROD MRA4 Programme Lessons Learned– 8:45am - 9:15am Brett Vance (AF), USAF Test Pilot School “The S-3 Viking Story” A Test Pilot Perspective” Symposium Chairman: 2:15pm - 2:45pm SqnLdr Simon Seymour-Dale, RAF (M) Lyle Schaefer (AF) “M-346 High Alfa Investigation Campaign” Michael Wallace (AF), Boeing 10:30am - 11:00am 9:15am - 9:45am Quirino Bucci (M), Alenia Aermacchi “Flight Test Approach to Adaptive Control Research” SESSION I Giovanni Pasinetti, Alenia Aermacchi “Testing 3D ‘Virtual-World’ Symbology for Use in 8:30am - 12:00pm, Thursday, 22 September 2011 Rotary Wing Brownout Prevention” David “Nils” Larson (AF) NASA Chairman: CAPT Thomas Huff, USN (M) 2:45pm - 3:00pm-Coffee Break CDR David Purvis RN, (M) Col James Less, USAF (M)

11:00am - 11:30am Kate Pavlock, NASA 8:45am - 9:15am 3:00pm - 3:30pm “X2 Technology Demonstrator—Ludicrous Speed… “A400M Development Flight Testing - A Wide “F/A-18C/D Litening Pod Loads Envelope Spectrum of Challenges” 9:45am - 10:30am Expansion Lessons Learned” No It’s Gone Plaid!!” “Firebird—The Development and Flight Testing Bill Fell (AF), Sikorsky Fernando Alonso , Airbus Maj Nicole Mann, USMC (M) Ed Strongman (M), Airbus of an Optionally-Piloted Medium-Altitude Kevin Bredenbeck (AF), Sikorsky Long-Endurance UAV” LT James Struck, USN (M) Karl-Heinz Mai (M), Airbus Meredith Almoney, Dept. of the Navy 3:30pm - 4:00pm Mike Alsbury (M), “Development of JSOW C-1 on the F/A-18E/F” LUNCHEON 9:15am - 9:45am LT Scott Johnson, USN (AM) Sequoia Ballroom “SpaceShipTwo - Glide Flight Lessons Learned” “E-2D Advanced Hawkeye Carrier Suitability CDR Andrew McFarland, USN (M) 12:30pm – 2:00pm (AF), Scaled Composites and Structural Demonstration” Guest Speaker Mark Stucky (AF), Scaled Composites 4:00pm - 4:30pm LT Brian Tollefson, USN (M) George Whitesides, CEO, 10:30am - 11:00am – Coffee Break LT Paul Meyer, USN (AM) “Experimental Flight Testing of Piper’s “Virgin Galactic and the Future of Spaceflight” First Jet Aircraft” 11:00am - 11:30am 9:45am - 10:15am David Schwartz (AF), Piper Aircraft SESSION IV “Designing, Building and Flight Testing a Homebuilt “Testing and Development of a New Warning System Buddy Sessoms (AM), Piper Aircraft Aircraft to Set a World Distance Record” for Low G-Suit Pressure in JAS 39 GRIPEN” Michael Cavanaugh, Innovative Aerodynamics 2:40pm - 5:10pm, Friday, 23 September 2011 Lt Col Arnold E. Ebneter, USAF, Ret (M) Johan Sjostrand (M), SAAB Chairman: Klas W. Ohman (M), USNTPS Eileen A. Bjorkman, AFFTC Christer Berglund, SAAB 4:30pm - 5:00pm “F-35B: 90º Alpha Landings” 2:40pm - 3:55pm 11:30am - 12:00pm 10:15am - 10:30am-Coffee Break Peter Wilson, British Aerospace SPECIAL EDUCATION FORUM “The Space Shuttle Legacy” “Lessons Learned the Hard Way” Col Eric Boe, USAF (M) 10:30am - 11:00am Col Doug Hurley, USMC “787 Thrust Asymmetry Protection System” SPECIAL VIEWING OF Col Art Tomassetti, USMC (AF), Jim Sandberg (F), Michael Carriker (AF), Boeing “The Great Santini” ~ 7:30pm - Sequoia Ballroom James Brown (F), Maurice Girard (AF), Thomas THE ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING WILL BEGIN David Eggold, Boeing MacDonald (F), Klas Ohman (M), (F) UPON ADJOURNMENT OF THE SYMPOSIUM CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST 3:55pm - 4:10pm – Coffee Break 11:00am - 11:30am 7:00am - 8:00am, Friday, 23 September 2011

“Takeoff Stall Flight Research - A Case Study Sequoia Foyer 4:10pm - 4:40pm in High Speed Taxi.” “We’re All in This Together—Lessons Learned From BANQUET RECEPTION Anthony Brown (M), National Research Council SESSION III C-17 All-Weather Formation Testing” SEQUOIA FOYER Canada 6:00pm – 7:00pm 8:00am - 11:30am, Friday, 23 September 2011 Lt Col James Hanley USAF (M) Chairman: Thomas P. Phelan (M), Wyle 11:30am - 12:00pm Maj James Quashnock, USAF (M) AWARDS BANQUET SEQUOIA BALLROOM “Road to First Flight—Lessons Learned During 8:15am - 8:45am 4:40pm - 5:10pm 7:00pm Development Test of the X-47B Aircraft” “Modification and Flight Test of In-Theater Aircraft” “The Two Most Ominous Words in Flight Test; Michael Rabens (F), Lt Col Adam MacDonald, USAF (M) “Simple” and “Straightforward.” A Look at LCDR Kevin Watkins, USN Integrating Mines on the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet” LCDR Joshua Filbey ,USN (M) REGISTRATION PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS All attendees of the Symposium are required to register. The registration fee covers admission to all technical sessions, THE SOCIETY OF Friday Luncheon, a Friday Night Reception ticket, and one EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS copy of the Symposium Proceedings on DVD.

The SETP Headquarters and registration will be in the Sequoia Registration Booth and will be open:

Wednesday 21 September, 10:00am - 8:00pm Thursday 22 September, 7:00am - 5:00pm Friday 23 September, 7:00am - 5:00pm Saturday 24 September, 7:00am - 1:00pm

SYMPOSIUM AND BANQUET COMMITTEE 55TH SYMPOSIUM AND AWARDS BANQUET General Chairman...... BRETT VANCE Symposium Chairman...... MICHAEL WALLACE 21-24 SEPTEMBER 2011 Luncheon Chairman...... JUSTIN PAINES Friday Night Reception Chairman ...MARCO VENANZETTI GRAND CALIFORNIAN HOTEL New Member Reception Chairman...... C.W. BILL CONNOR ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA The Society wishes to acknowledge Boeing Banquet Chairman ...... ARTHUR TOMASSETTI Integrated Defense Systems for their audiovisual Displays Chairman...... DAN VANDERHORST WELCOME support throughout the Symposium and Banquet. Dr. Gerry T. Morton , Jr. Technical Tour Chairman......

...... KYLE TURCO Education Outreach Chairman...... EDWARD CABRERA

BOARD OF DIRECTORS Welcome to The Society of Experimental Test Pilots' 55th International “Report to the Aerospace President ...... WILLIAM A. FLYNN Profession”. Brett Vance (AF) and his Vice President...... DAVID NILS LARSON Symposium Committee have developed an Secretary ...... DOUGLAS A. BENJAMIN exceptional and stimulating program with both The Society would also like to thank Northrop Treasurer...... MAURICE GIRARD formal and informal venues for the exchange of Grumman for their ongoing support of the Oral Legal Officer...... KEVIN PROSSER information and renewal of personal and History Program Executive Adviser...... TERRY E. TOMENY professional friendships. We all sincerely hope you . President-Elect...... STEVE RAINEY enjoy this gathering and, most importantly, that Technical Adviser...... TIMOTHY J. MOREY you can take home some fresh insights that will Technical Adviser...... MICHAEL WALLACE allow you to conduct your flight tests more Canadian Section Representative...... JASON RANDALL efficiently and with greater safety. Central Section Representative ...... MARK O. SCHLEGEL East Coast Section Representative...... THOMAS HUFF The Society thanks the National Test Pilot School European Section Representative...... JEREMY P. TRACY for it’s support of Podcasting the Technical Great Lakes Section Representative...... G.K. ROBINSON Program. Northwest Section Representative ...... LEON ROBERT Southeast Section Representative ...... GARY PLUMB William A. Flynn Southwest Section Representative ...... ROBERT MOREAU President, 2010-2011 West Coast Section Representative.... STUART ROGERSON

PAULA S. SMITH Executive Director