January - June 2014 January - June 2014 1 THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS President ....................................................................................................... .. Kevin Prosser, Calspan Vice President ....................................................................................................... Timothy Morey, Wyle Secretary ........................................................................................................Michael Wallace, Boeing Treasurer ....................................................................................................... Todd Ericson, Col, USAF Legal Officer ........................................................................................... Roderick Cregier, Col, USAF Executive Advisor ............................................................................................ Doug Benjamin, Boeing President-Elect ...................................................................................Mark Stucky, Scaled Composites Technical Advisor ............................................................................................ Patrick Duffy, JT3, LLC Technical Advisor ..................................................................................................... Greg Lewis, NTPS Canadian Section Representative ..........................................Maurice Girard, Bombardier Aerospace Central Section Representative ................................................................Dan Hinson, 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 ..................................................................David Wright, Col, USAF Southwest Section Representative ...................................................................Norm Driscoll, Designet West Coast Section Representative ................................................... Andrew McFarland, CAPT, USN Executive Director........................................................................................................... Paula S. Smith CANADIAN SECTION CENTRAL SECTION Chairman .................................Andy Litavniks Chairman .......................................Dan Hinson Vice Chairman ....................................Jeff Peer Vice Chairman............................ Aaron Tobias Secretary ........................................Chuck Ellis Secretary..........................................Steve Long Treasurer .................................. Maurice Girard Treasurer..........................................Jeff Karnes Educational Outreach...................Aaron Tobias EUROPEAN SECTION EAST COAST SECTION Chairman .....................................Gideon Singer Chairman .......................Tobias Van Esselstyn NORTHWEST SECTION Secretary.....................................Brian Sandberg Treasurer ...................................Scott Dornisch Chairman .........................................Ed Kolano Educational Outreach...................Eric Mitchell Vice Chairman...................Jennifer Henderson Secretary....................................Gerald Whites Treasurer ......................................Leon Robert GREAT LAKES SECTION Educational Outreach.........Jennifer Henderson Chairman ...............................Robbie Robinson SOUTHWEST SECTION Vice Chairman.............................. David Glade Chairman ..................................... ..... Dan Wells Secretary..............................................Eric Fitz Vice Chairman............................ Norm Driscoll Treasurer ..........................................Sam Ryals Secretary.............................................Jim Acree Educational Outreach...................Gary Konnert Treasurer ...........................................Jeff Trang WEST COAST SECTION SOUTHEAST SECTION Chairman ...........................Andrew McFarland Chairman ....................................David Wright Vice Chairman ...................... Andrew Thurling Vice Chairman .................................Varun Puri 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 2014 Fellows Coordinating Committee Chairman .............................................................Steve Rainey Publications Committee Chairman .................................................................................. Allen Peterson Critical Incident Response Committee..................................................................................Billie Flynn Constituion/SOP Committee.................................................................................................Greg Lewis 2 January - June 2014 SETP 2014 CALENDAR 58th Symposium & Banquet Southwest Section Symposium 24-27 September 2014 25 October 2014 Grand Californian Hotel & Spa The Worthington Hotel Anaheim, CA Fort Worth, TX European Flight Test Safety Workshop 4-6 November 2014 Manching, Germany SETP 2015 CALENDAR 8th Southeast Symposium 45th West Coast Symposium TBD 27-28 March 2015 Catamaran Resort, San Diego, CA 31st East Coast Symposium 5th Northwest Symposium 10 April 2015 24 April 2015 NAS Paxtuxent River Area Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA Flight Test Safety Workshop 8th Great Lakes Symposium 3-7 May 2015 TBD Scottsdale, AZ 8th Central Symposium 47th European Symposium TBD 10-13 June 2015 Lucerne, Switzerland 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 ...........................................................................................................6 Editor’s Memo................................................................................................................22 Membership News .........................................................................................................34 2014 Symposium Information .......................................................................................36 2014 Symposium Highlights..........................................................................................38 Scholarship Foundation News .......................................................................................50 SETP Foundation News .................................................................................................52 New Members and Upgrades..........................................................................................58 Who...What...Where ......................................................................................................65 Book News .....................................................................................................................68 Last Flights.....................................................................................................................70 COVER PHOTO Picture of the AugustaWestland AW609 Tiltrotor during flight test in Texas. Project test pilots included Pietro Venanzi (F), Dan Wells (AF), and Paul Edwards (M). Photo courtesy of AugustaWestland. January - June 2014 3 PRESIDENT’S MEMO The spring symposium season is complete and I am extremely satisfied with each and every symposium I’ve attended. Thank you to all the members that put in the extra effort to make these events possible. Continuing to provide value through superior technical symposia despite the financial challenges we face was my number one priority as President and I am pleased to see that that objective has been accomplished. Please put the Annual S&B in Anaheim (24-27 Sep) on your calendars, it promises to be a good year and we hope to be welcoming the USAF and Navy TPS classes back to the symposium this year. Kevin Prosser (AF) One of my other priorities as President was to roll out Calspan the new web-site that would provide increased capability SETP President for our members. The IT challenges were more than anyone expected but I am happy to say the improvements that Steve Rainey championed are finally coming to fruition. The DoD firewall issues appear to be resolved and the problems with the paper