January - June 2013 January - June 2013 1 THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS 57th Symposium & Banquet 25-28 September 2013 President ........................................................................................... Douglas Benjamin, Boeing Grand Californian Hotel & Spa Vice President ............................................................................Mark Stucky, Scaled Composites Anaheim, CA Secretary ............................................................................................................Brett Vance, FAA Treasurer ...............................................................................................Michael Wallace, Boeing Legal Officer ...............................................................................Gary Plumb, DCS Corporation Executive Advisor ........................................................................................ Steve Rainey, Boeing President-Elect .........................................................................................Kevin Prosser, Calspan Technical Advisor ............................................................................................ Greg Lewis, NTPS Technical Advisor ................................................................Kenneth Weir, MajGen, USMC (Ret) Canadian Section Representative .................................Maurice Girard, Bombardier Aerospace Central Section Representative ................................................Stuart Rogerson, 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 ......................................................... Darren Wees, Maj, USAF Southwest Section Representative ............................................................ Robert Moreau, FedEx West Coast Section Representative ...................................................... Todd Ericson, Col, USAF Paula S. Smith Executive Director CANADIAN SECTION CENTRAL SECTION Chairman .............................Andy Litavniks Chairman ............................Stuart Rogerson Vice Chairman ................................Jeff Peer Vice Chairman .......................... Dan Hinson Secretary ....................................Chuck Ellis Secretary ................................. Aaron Tobias Treasurer ..............................Maurice Girard Treasurer......................................Jeff Karnes EUROPEAN SECTION EAST COAST SECTION Chairman ...............................Ignacio Lombo Chairman .................................Klas Ohman Vice Chairman ...........Tobias Van Esselstyn NORTHWEST SECTION Secretary.................................Brian Sandberg Treasurer ...............................Scott Dornisch Chairman .................................... Ed Kolano Vice Chairman .............. Jennifer Henderson Secretary ................................Gerald Whites GREAT LAKES SECTION Treasurer ..................................Leon Robert Chairman ...........................Robbie Robinson Vice Chairman .......................... David Glade SOUTHWEST SECTION Secretary ..........................................Eric Fitz Chairman ................................ Norm Driscoll Treasurer ..................................... Sam Ryals Vice Chairman ............................Eric Kinney Secretary ........................................ Jim Acree SOUTHEAST SECTION Treasurer ........................................Jeff Trang Chairman .................................Darren Wees Vice Chairman ............................ Varun Puri WEST COAST SECTION Secretary .................................David Wright Chairman .................................Todd Ericson Treasurer .................................Ryan Sanford Vice Chairman ...............Andrew McFarland Treasurer ...................................Jason Dotter 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 2 January - June 2013 SETP 2013 CALENDAR 57th Symposium & Banquet European Flight Test Safety Workshop 25-28 September 2013 29-30 October 2013 Grand Californian Hotel & Spa Amsterdam, The Netherlands Anaheim, CA Southwest Section Symposium 31 October 2013 The Worthington Hotel Fort Worth, TX SETP 2014 CALENDAR 44th West Coast Symposium 29th East Coast Symposium 28-29 March 2014 11 April 2014 4th Northwest Symposium Flight Test Safety Workshop 25 April 2014 12-15 May 2014 Great Lakes Symposium Central Symposium 22 May 2014 13 June 2014 46th European Symposium 58th Symposium & Banquet 15-18 June 2014 24-27 September 2014 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................................................................................................................34 Membership News .........................................................................................................45 2013 Symposium Information .......................................................................................48 2013 Symposium Highlights..........................................................................................51 Scholarship Foundation News .......................................................................................61 SETP Foundation News .................................................................................................63 Know The Corporate Member........................................................................................68 New Members and Upgrades..........................................................................................70 Who...What...Where ......................................................................................................78 Section News .................................................................................................................80 Book News .....................................................................................................................83 Last Flights.....................................................................................................................84 COVER PHOTO First powered flight of the Virgin Galactic Space Ship 2 on 29 April 2013 over Mojave Air and Space Port, Mojave CA. Piloting Space Ship 2 were Scaled Com- posites Pilots Mark Stucky (AF) and Mike Alsbury (M). The White Knight 2 that carried the Space Ship to altitude was crewed by Virgin Galactic Chief Pilot Dave Mackay, Scaled Composites Pilot Clint Nichols (M) and Scaled Composites flight test engineer Brian Maisler. PHOTO CREDIT: Michael Fuchs January - June 2013 3 PRESIDENT’S MEMO My tenure as your President has flown by. It has been an extremely rewarding year, although there have been some significant challenges. The specter of fiscal sequestration in the US affected many government operations, with restrictions on government attendance at conferences, symposia and performing non- mission essential travel. This had the potential to wreck SETP’s model of putting on multiple regional symposia, and then selecting the best papers from each symposium to present at the Anaheim International Symposium and Banquet. Douglas Benjamin (F) We’ve run 7 symposia since sequestration hit: the The Boeing Company Southeast Section, at Eglin AFB; the West Coast Section SETP President at San Diego; the East Coast Section at NAS Patuxent River; the North America Flight Test Safety Workshop in New Orleans, the Northwest Section in Seattle, the Great Lakes Section in Dayton, and the European Section, held for the first time in spectacular Madrid. The Central Section symposium in Wichita finished the regional agenda, and we will have a presence at the Experimental Aviation Association’s AirVenture at Oshkosh. We were sweating attendance, and even being able to put on symposia – but you came through despite the challenges: for example, at the East Coast Section symposium, there were 224 attendees, including US Naval Test Pilot School students and midshipmen from the US Naval Academy. The thing I appreciate the most is the engagement and interaction of our