July - December 2014 July - December THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS President ........................................................................................ Mark Stucky, Virgin Galactic Vice President........................................................................................ Michael Wallace, Boeing Secretary ....................................................................................... Todd Ericson, Virgin Galactic Treasurer ...................................................................................................... Nicola Pecile, NTPS Legal Officer ........................................................................................ William Gray, USAF TPS Executive Advisor .....................................................................................Kevin Prosser, Calspan President-Elect .............................................................................................Timothy Morey, Wyle Technical Advisor ............................................................................................ Greg Lewis, NTPS Technical Advisor ............................................................................................. Terry Lutz, Airbus Canadian Section Representative............................William Colquhoun, Bombardier Aerospace Central Section Representative ........................................... Steve Stowe, Bombardier Aerospace East Coast Section Representative .........................................Eric Mitchell, Northrop Grumman European Section Representative................................................. Jeremy Tracy, AgustaWestland Great Lakes Section Representative ...........................................Eric Fitz, Dept. of the Air Force Northwest Section Representative .................................................... Jennifer Henderson, Boeing Southeast Section Representative ....................................... David Wright, Dept. of the Air Force Southwest Section Representative ..........................................................Norm Driscoll, Designet West Coast Section Representative .................................................... David Kern, Lt Col, USAF Executive Director...................................................................................................Paula S. Smith CANADIAN SECTION CENTRAL SECTION Chairman .................................William Colquhoun Chairman .......................................... Steve Stowe Vice Chairman ................................. Richard Ling Vice Chairman ....................................Moe Girard Secretary ........................................... Brad Koskie Secretary ..........................................Stu Rogerson Treasurer ...................................... Constantin Stan Treasurer ............................................. Jeff Karnes Educational Outreach.......................Aaron Tobias EAST COAST SECTION EUROPEAN SECTION Chairman .................................... Brian Sandberg Chairman ................................... Rudolph Engeler Vice Chairman......................Tobias Van Esselstyn NORTHWEST SECTION Secretary.................................................Todd Lardy Treasurer ............................... Andrew McFarland Chairman ............................... Jennifer Henderson Educational Outreach........................Eric Mitchell Vice Chairman ....................................Stu Farmer Secretary ............................................ Jim Young GREAT LAKES SECTION Treasurer ...........................................Chad Lundy Educational Outreach..............Jennifer Henderson Chairman ..................................................Eric Fitz Vice Chairman .................................. David Glade SOUTHWEST SECTION Secretary .............................................Ryan Smith Chairman ................................................Dan Wells Treasurer ...............................................Ed Conant Vice Chairman ................................ Norm Driscoll Educational Outreach........................Gary Konnert Secretary ................................................ Jim Acree Treasurer ................................................ Jeff Trang SOUTHEAST SECTION WEST COAST SECTION Chairman .........................................David Wright Chairman ............................................ David Kern Vice Chairman .............................Brian Taliaferro Vice Chairman ........................... Andrew Thurling Secretary.............................................Jason Dotter Secretary.........................................Glenn Graham Treasurer ..........................................Ryan Sanford Treasurer ......................................... ..Richard Zins Educational Outreach.............Timothy McDonald SETP COMMITTEES Flight Test Safety Committee Chairman ..................................................................Gerald Whites Membership Committee Chairman ............................................................................. Eric Hansen 2015 Fellows Coordinating Committee Chairman ....................................................Steve Rainey Publications Committee Chairman ......................................................................... Allen Peterson Critical Incident Response Committee.........................................................................Billie Flynn SOP Committee / Constitution......................................................................................Greg Lewis 2 July - December 2014 SETP 2015 CALENDAR 8th Southeast Symposium 45th West Coast Symposium 20 February 2015 27-28 March 2015 Eglin Bay Club, Eglin, FL Catamaran Resort, San Diego, CA 31st East Coast Symposium 5th Northwest Symposium 10 April 2015 24 April 2015 Bay District Volunteer Fire Department The Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA Company 3 Social Hall, Lexington Park, MD Great Lakes Symposium Flight Test Safety Workshop 14 May 2015 4-7 May 2015 Wright-Patterson AFB - Banquet Center The Scottsdale Plaza Resort, Dayton, OH Scottsdale, AZ 47th European Symposium Central Section Symposium 10-13 June 2015 19 June 2015 Luzern, Switzerland The Hotel at Old Town, Wichita, KS 59th Symposium & Banquet 23-26 September 2015 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. 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Table of Contents: President’s Memo ............................................................................................................4 Technical Articles ...........................................................................................................5 Editor’s Memo................................................................................................................45 2015 Symposium Information .......................................................................................87 New Members and Upgrades..........................................................................................92 Who...What...Where ......................................................................................................98 Book News...................................................................................................................101 Section News ...............................................................................................................103 Scholarship Foundation News ..................................................................................... 110 SETP Foundation News ............................................................................................... 111 58th Annual Symposium and Banquet Report ............................................................. 112 2014 Symposium Highlights........................................................................................131 Last Flights...................................................................................................................136 COVER PHOTO The F-35 Lightning II carrier variant Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) made history in Novem- ber 2014 as it performed its first set of arrested landings and catapult launches aboard an aircraft carrier. The F-35’s initial at-sea developmental test (DT) aboard the USS Nimitz (CVN 68) also featured a 2-plane flyover off the coast of California led by Lockheed Martin test pilot Elliott “Hemo” Clemence (M) in CF-03 (Flt 193) and LCDR Theodore Dyckman (M) in CF-05 (Flt 100). Lockheed Martin photo by Dane Wiedmann. July - December 2014 3 PRESIDENT’S MEMO For 2015 the Society’s Board of Directors will strive to continue increasing the benefits and value that membership brings to all members by facilitating outstanding symposia and improving the ability to use the SETP website to research the latest lessons learned, flight test techniques and identify discipline experts. We are also taking new measures to ensure the Society remains fiscally viable and poised for the future. Membership is at an all-time high and this is being accomplished not by relaxing the rules but by a two-pronged approach that first