2004 REPORT TO THE AEROSPACE PROFESSION FORTY EIGHTH SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS SEPTEMBER 2004 THE WESTIN BONAVENTURE LOS ANGELES, CALIE ISSN #0742-3705 TABLE OF CONTENTS SESSION I Chairman: Bruce D. Remick (M), FAA "F-16 E/F Flight Test Program" William A. Flynn (AF), Lockheed Martin Stephen Barter (M), Lockheed Martin (Paper not available for publication) "Flight Testing the Automatic Air Collision Avoidance System (AUTO ACAS)" 2 Maj James Less, USAF (M) Maj Scott Wierzbanowski, USAF (M) "The Challenges o/Morphing a Crop Duster Into a Sport Parachute Aircraft" 19 Sean C. Roberts (F), National Test Pilot School Gregory V. Lewis (F), National Test Pilot School "F-16C/D 600-Gallon Fuel Tank Certification in the Republic of Singapore Air Force" 38 Vincent Phang, Rep. of Singapore AF "B-2A Integration of the Smart Bomb Rack Assembly" Maj William Power, USAF (AM) (Paper not available for publication) SESSION II Chairman: CAPT Michael V. Rabens, USN (AF) "F/A-18 E/F Transonic Flying Qualities (TFQI) Improvement Program" 53 LT Bill Thames, USN Peter Dougherty, NAVAIR in "F-16 M3 OT&E of the Royal Netherlands Air Force" Maj Harry van Hulten, RNLAF (Paper not available for publication) "Boundary Escape Tracking: A new Conception ofHazardous PIO" 67 Bill Gray (AF), USAF TPS "Test Program to address V-22 Uncommanded Roll " while on the deck of an Amphibious Assault Ship 92 Maj Dave Thorn, USMC John Nelson, NAVAIR Eric deBrun, Boeing "Flight Testing for Required Navigation Performance (RNP) and GNSS Landing Systems (GLS)" 101 Tom Imrich (M), The Boeing Company "Wake Turbulence - A Threat to Unstable Fighters" 131 Lt Col Robert Hierl, GAF (M) Sittipong Graison, German Aeronautics and Space Research Agency, DLR SESSION III Chairman: Jerry Gallagher (M), USN TPS "F-2 Pylon Induced Vibration" 164 Maj N. Higuchi, JASDF Capt T. Yamasaki, JASDF IV "Hawker Horizon Flight Control System Development" Steve Wenke, Raytheon Michael G. Watson, Raytheon (Paper not released for publication) "The Evolution of Cockpit Design Leading to the Planeview Cockpit" 173 Kent Crenshaw (AF), Gulfstream Aerospace "Beware ofRaptors with Open Doors: The F/A-22 Safe Separations Program" 189 Maj Charles Havasy, USAF John A. Fergione (F), Lockheed Martin "Loss of Columbia: The Technical Investigation Story" CAPT Gregory Johnson, USNR (Paper not available for publication) "Synthetic and Enhanced Vision Research" Dr. Mike Norman (Paper not available for publication) SESSION IV- Chainnan: Robert Stoney (M), FAA "Global Express ASTOR (Airborne Standoff Radar)" 204 Mark Schlegel (AF), Bombardier v "Lancair 400 Spin Testing and Spin Chute Release Failure" 214 Leonard A. Fox (M), L.A. Fox Unlimited "Cessna Citation CJ3 Development and Certification" Russ Williams (M), Cessna (Paper not available for publication) "N-l to B-2: Fifty Years of Flight-Testing Northrop'sFlying Wings" 222 William A. Flanagan, Northrop Grumman "Super-Charging the Super Hornet" 249 Maj M. G. Kelly, USMC Ricardo Traven (M), Boeing "The SystemApproach to Spin/Stall Parachute Recovery Systems, a Five Year Update" 263 Tony Taylor, Irvin Aerospace SESSION V Chairman: Blaine Hammond, Gulfstream Aerospace "MC-130E/HMassive Ordnance Air Blast Test" 297 Maj Phil Edwards, USAF (M) Lt Col Andrew White, USAF (M) Lt Col Dave Brown, USAF "Nature's Aircraft: Power to Mass, Morphing and How Birds Use Half a Wing" 311 Dr. Kenneth P. Dial, University ofMontana vi "100th Anniversary Wright Brothers Flight Attempt at Kitty Hawk" A. Scott Crossfield (F) (Paper not available for publication) "SpaceShipOne Update" Brian Binnie (M), Scaled Composites Mike Melvill (AF), Scaled Composites Peter Siebold (AM), Scaled Composites (Paper not available for publication) "SETP Panel on Pilot Rating Scales" 319 George E. Cooper (F) Robert P. Harper (F).