January - June 2015 January - June 2015 1 THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS 59th Symposium & Banquet BOARD OF DIRECTORS 23-26 September 2015 Grand Californian Hotel & Spa President ................................................................................................. Mark Stucky, Virgin Galactic Anaheim, CA Vice President .................................................................................................Michael Wallace, Boeing Secretary ................................................................................................ Todd Ericson, Virgin Galactic Treasurer ...............................................................................................................Nicola Pecile, NTPS Legal Officer .................................................................................................. William Gray, USAFTPS 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 .........................................Thomas Tauer 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 January - June 2015 SETP 2015 CALENDAR 59th Symposium & Banquet Southwest Section Symposium 23-26 September 2015 23-24 October 2015 Grand Californian Hotel & Spa The Worthington Hotel Anaheim, CA Fort Worth, TX European Flight Test Safety Workshop 3-5 November 2015 Aix-en-Provence, France SETP 2016 CALENDAR 9th Southeast Symposium 46th West Coast Symposium TBD 18-19 March 2016 Catamaran Resort, San Diego, CA 32st East Coast Symposium 6th Northwest Symposium 8 April 2016 22 April 2016 NAS Paxtuxent River Area Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA Flight Test Safety Workshop 9th Great Lakes Symposium 2-5 May 2016 TBD Crowne Plaza Hotel, Melbourne, FL 9th Central Symposium 48th European Symposium TBD TBD 60th Symposium & Banquet 21-24 September 2016 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................................................................................................................14 Membership News .........................................................................................................55 2015 Symposium Information .......................................................................................57 2015 Symposium Highlights..........................................................................................59 Scholarship Foundation News .......................................................................................70 New Members and Upgrades..........................................................................................77 Who...What...Where ......................................................................................................84 Book News .....................................................................................................................87 Last Flights.....................................................................................................................90 Cover Photo Copyright Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. All rights reserved. Sikorsky S-97 RAIDER™ Helicopter Achieves Successful First Flight. See page 84 for full story. Pilot Bill Fell (AF) and Co-Pilot Kevin Bredenbeck (AF) January - June 2015 3 PRESIDENT’S MEMO As this issue goes to press, the symposia season is nearly complete. Each year we say how great all the symposia were and this year is no exception. I was able to attend every section symposium as well as the European Symposium and what stood out was not the quality of the individual symposium (they all were excellent) but the differences in support so evidenced by the audiences in attendance. The most glaring example was the disparity between the Southeast and East Coast Section symposia. Both were held at major military test centers (Eglin AFB and NAS Patuxent River, respectively) but the similarities ended there. At Eglin, it was obvious the symposium was being Mark P. Stucky (F) held concurrently with a normal busy day of flight test. Virgin Galactic There were some in attendance who