July - December 2011 July - December July - December 2011 1 THE SOCIETY OF EXPERIMENTAL TEST PILOTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS President .................................................................................................. .. Steve Rainey, Boeing Vice President ...........................................................................................Kevin Prosser, Calspan Secretary ...................................................................................Mark Stucky, Scaled Composites Treasurer .............................................................................Brett Vance, USAF Test Pilot School Legal Officer ..............................................................................................Mike Wallace, Boeing Executive Advisor ..................................................................William A. Flynn, Lockheed Martin President-Elect ...............................................................................Douglas A. Benjamin, Boeing Technical Advisor ............................................................................................Nils Larson, NASA Technical Advisor .................................................................................................... Patrick Duffy Canadian Section Representative ...........................................Jason Randall, Transport Canada Central Section Representative ....................................................Mark O. Schlegel, Bombardier East Coast Section Representative ...............................................................John Tougas, Boeing European Section Representative............................................. Jeremy P. Tracy, AgustaWestland Great Lakes Section Representative .....................................................Robbie Robinson, Textron Northwest Section Representative ....................................................................... Ed Kolano, FAA Southeast Section Representative ..............................................Adam MacDonald, LtCol, USAF Southwest Section Representative ............................................................ Robert Moreau, FedEx West Coast Section Representative ...................................................Todd Ericson, LtCol, USAF Paula S. Smith Executive Director CANADIAN SECTION Chairman ................................. Jason Randall CENTRAL SECTION EAST COAST SECTION Chairman ..................................Steve Stowe Chairman ................................. John Tougas Vice Chairman ..................... Marc Mannella Vice Chairman ........................Eric Mitchell Secretary .....................................Phil Hayde Secretary ...............................Bill Berryman Treasurer .................................... Jeff Karnes Treasurer ................................Mark Johnson GREAT LAKES SECTION EUROPEAN SECTION Chairman ...........................Robbie Robinson Chairman .................Wolfgang Schirdewahn Vice Chairman .......................... David Glade Secretary ..........................................Eric Fitz Treasurer ..................................... Sam Ryals NORTHWEST SECTION SOUTHWEST SECTION Chairman .................................... Ed Kolano Vice Chairman ..........................Tom Twiggs Chairman ............................... Robert Moreau Secretary ...................................Chad Lundy Vice Chairman ......................... Aaron Tucker Treasurer ..................................Leon Robert Secretary/Treasurer ............... Jerry Singleton SOUTHEAST SECTION WEST COAST SECTION Chairman ........................Adam MacDonald Chairman .................................Todd Ericson Vice Chairman .............................Scott Cain Vice Chairman ...............Andrew McFarland Secretary ..................................Darren Wees Treasurer ...................................Jason Dotter Treasurer .................................. Sion Hughes SETP COMMITTEES Flight Test Safety Committee Chairman ................................................................ Maurice Girard Membership Committee Chairman ............................................................................. Eric Hansen 2012 Fellows Coordinating Committee Chairman ................................................ Chuck Killberg Publications Committee Chairman ......................................................................... Allen Peterson 2 July - December 2011 SETP CALENDAR 5th Southeast Section Symposium 42nd San Diego Symposium 23-24 February 2012 23-24 March 2012 Ramada Plaza Beach Resort Catamaran Resort Hotel & Spa Ft. Walton Beach, FL San Diego, CA 27th East Coast Symposium Flight Test Safety Workshop 13 April 2012 30 April - 3 May 2012 NAS Patuxent River, MD The Renaissance Seattle Hotel Great Lakes Section Symposium Seattle, WA 17 May 2012 44th European Symposium Wright-Patterson AFB - Banquet Center 23-27 May 2012 Dayton, Ohio Kempinski Bristol Hotel 5th Central Section Symposium Berlin, Germany 1 June 2012 2nd Northwest Symposium Southwest Symposium 12 July 2012 TBD Future of Flight Facility, Everett, WA 55th Symposium & Banquet 5th European Flight Test Safety 26-29 September 2011 Workshop Grand Californian Hotel & Spa TBD Anaheim, CA Sweden 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 Editor’s Memo.................................................................................................................5 Technical Articles ...........................................................................................................6 RefleXions.....................................................................................................................47 2012 Symposium Information and Call for Papers ........................................................58 Membership News .........................................................................................................62 New Members and Upgrades .........................................................................................63 Who...What...Where ......................................................................................................68 Know The Corporate Member ......................................................................................70 Section News .................................................................................................................72 Scholarship Foundation News .......................................................................................73 2011 Symposium and Banquet Highlights .....................................................................75 2011 European Flight Test Safety Workshop Highlights ...............................................94 Request for Nominees for Kincheloe and Doolittle Awards ..........................................97 Last Flights...................................................................................................................100 COVER PHOTO National Test Pilot School is celebrating it’s 30th Anniversary. Photo courtesy of National Test Pilot School July - December 2011 3 PRESIDENT’S MEMO I’m very excited about the upcoming year in SETP. I want you all to know that I am very humbled to serve as your President and I’ll do my best to continue with and enhance the spirit of the Society during my tenure as President. I’d like to thank Billie Flynn and his Board of Directors for handing me a Society in excellent condition. We are 2400 members strong and had eleven symposia this past year. I was fortunate enough to attend most of these and I can assure you that the quality and quantity of technical papers is at an all time high. I hope to continue this trend. We are well on the way to a great year of symposia. I recently attended the SW Section Symposium and the Steve Rainey (AF) historical theme was superior. I have always believed The Boeing Company that a good look backwards helps you take the correct SETP President step forward. The presentations helped to focus lessons learned from history and how they apply today. I then attended the European Flight Test Safety Workshop in Salzburg. The focus was on airshow demonstrations and preventing accidents. The product of this workshop will be a guide and checklist for airshow demonstrations - this directly supports our primary goal to increase flight test safety. I have several initiatives that I’d like to announce. 1) In the Golden Era of test pilots it was a normal occurrence for Jack Northrop to drive to Edwards AFB to talk directly to the test pilots who had flown his product. Kelly Johnson’s interactions with test pilots are well documented. In many cases today’s program managers and CEOs are less likely to have had a background in engineering or flight test. As a result, the recognition of the value that test pilots bring to programs may have perhaps dwindled somewhat in recent years. We have established a “Marketing Test Pilot Value Committee” to address this issue. Past