Future Vertical Lift Aircraft Design Conference Sponsored by Organizing Committee General Chair: John M. Davis Technical Chair: Bruce Tenney Deputy Technical Chair: Chris Silva of the American Helicopter Society, International Arrangements Chair: Robert H. Stroub Production Chair: Eduardo Solis Production Assistant: Meridith Segall Holiday Inn Fisherman's Wharf San Francisco, CA AHS International: http://www.vtol.org San Francisco Bay Area Chapter: http://www.vtol-sf.org/ January 18 – 20, 2012 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tuesday, January 17, 2012 Thursday, January 19, 2012 Friday, January 20, 2012 7:00 AM – 12:00 PM Registration – Please register as early as you can! 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM Registration – Please register as early as you can! 8:00 AM – 10:00 AM Registration Avoid long lines. Avoid long lines. 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Joint Multi-role Rotorcraft (JMR) Wednesday, January 18, 2012 Session 8:30 AM – 12:00 PM Design Tools Session Moderator: Dr. William Lewis, Director for Aviation Development, Session Chair: Dr. Jimmy Tai, Georgia Tech 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM Registration – Please register as early as you can! US Army AMRDEC 8:30 AM –9:00 AM C.R.E.A.T.I.O.N. the Onera Multi-level Rotorcraft 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM Opening Remarks -- Dr. William D. Lewis Concepts Evaluation Tool -- Pierre-Marie Basset, et al. Avoid long lines. 8:15 AM – 8:30 AM Program Overview and Update – Ned Chase, US Army (CREATION Project Team), Onera - The French AATD/AMRDEC Aerospace Lab 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM Opening Session 8:30 AM – 9:15AM CT&A Goals& Industry Efforts – David Friedmann, US 9:00 AM –9:30 AM The Effect of Number of Blades on Optimum Rotor Moderator: John M. Davis, Design Conference Chair Army AATD/AMRDEC Design for Brownout Mitigation -- John Tritschler, Monica 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM Welcome & Opening Remarks 9:15 AM – 9:30AM Design IPT Actions and Issues – Bruce Tenney, US Army Syal, Prof. Roberto Celi, Prof. J. Gordon Leishman, 8:15 AM – 9:00 AM Engineered Resilient Systems – Scott Lucero, AFDD/AMRDEC University of Maryland Deputy Director, Strategic Initiatives, ODASD/SE 9:30AM – 11:00 AM Government Concept Designs 9:30 AM –10:00 AM Physics Based Modeling of Maneuver Loads for Rotor 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM Sikorsky X2 – Steve Weiner, Director of Engineering 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Design Rules and Helicopter– Chris Silva, US Army and Hub Design -- Ritu P. Marpu, Lakshmi N. Sciences AFDD/AMRDEC Sankar, Georgia Tech; James D. Baeder, 9:30 AM – 10:00 AM Eurocopter X3 –Joseph P. Mudd, Director of Army 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Break University of Maryland; Steve Makinen ,T. Aviation Business Development, EADS North America Alan Egolf, Sikorsky;Mark Wasikowski, Bell Helicoper 10:30 AM – 10:45 AM Compound – Alex Moodie, US Army AFDD/AMRDEC 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Break 10:45 AM – 11:00 AM Tilt Rotor – Jeff Sinsay, US Army AFDD/AMRDEC 10:00 AM – 10:30 AM Break 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM AeroVironment Hummingbird Nano UAV -- Matt 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Operations Analysis Results to Date – Al Huber, AMBL, 10:30 AM – 11:00 AM RotCFD a Tool for Aerodynamic Interference of Rotors: Keennon, NAV Project Manager US Army ACE Validation and Capabilities -- Ganesh Rajagopalan, 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Future Vertical Lift – Jose M. Gonzalez, Director, 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM Question and Answer Panel and Closing Remarks University of Iowa Land Warfare and Munitions, OUSD/ATL 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Prop-Rotor Design for an Electric Tilt-Rotor Vehicle -- 11:45 AM – 12:00 PM Question & Answers and Closing Remarks Ohad Gur, Gali Lazar, Israel Aerospace Industries 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Aircraft Systems Session 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM IXGEN – A Modeling Tool for the Preliminary Design of 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch Session Chair: Tom Wood, Senior Technical Fellow, Bell Helicopter Textron Composite Rotor Blades -- Peter J. Rohl, Paul Dorman, 1:30 PM –2:00 PM Rotor Aerodynamic Characteristics at High Advance 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Advanced Concepts Session Advatech Pacific; Carlos E.S. Cesnik, Devesh Ratio Relevant to Compound Rotorcraft -- Robert A. Kumar, University of Michigan Session Chair: Kevin McCarthy, Chief, Advanced Aircraft Design, NAVAIR Ormiston, US Army AFDD/AMRDEC 1:30 PM –2:00 PM Development of a 200 gram Twin-Rotor Micro 2:00 PM –2:30 PM Design and Performance of Lift-Offset Rotorcraft for 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Lunch Cyclocopter Capable of Autonomous Hover-- Short-Haul Missions-- Wayne Johnson, NASA- Moble Benedict, Elena Shrestha, Vikram Ames; Alex M. Moodie and Hyeonsoo Yeo, 1:30 PM – 5:00 PM Rotors Session Hrishikeshavan, Inderjit Chopra, University of US Army AFDD/AMRDEC Session Chair: Dr. William G. Warmbrodt, Chief, Aeromechanics Branch, Maryland Moormann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM Conceptual Design and Mission Selection for a Large NASA-Ames 2:00 PM –2:30 PM The Collette Cycloidal Rotor -- John Collette, Civil Compound Helicopter -- Carl Russell, Wayne 1:30 PM –2:00 PM Preliminary Design and Evaluation of an Airfoil with AlaskaWorks Engineering; Robert Clark, Acuity Johnson, NASA-Ames Active Continuous Trailing-Edge Flap -- Jinwei Shen Technologies 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Break and Yi Liu, National Institute of Aerospace (Hampton, 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM An Applied and Theoretical Approach to the VA); Robert P. Thornburgh, Andrew R. Kreshock and Development of a Twin Ducted Fan VTOL Aircraft -- 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Influence of Alternative Engine Concepts on LCTR2 Matthew L. Wilbur, US ArmyVTD/ARL Michael Speck, Mathieu Sellier, University of Sizing and Mission Profile-- C. W. Acree, Jr., 2:00 PM –2:30 PM Effects of Torsion Frequencies on the Rotor Performance Canterbury (New Zealand); Joerg Buchholz, NASA-Ames; C. A. Snyder, NASA-Glenn and Structural Loads with Trailing Edge Flap -- Rohit Hochschule Bremen, Germany 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Transient Analysis of Unpowered Vertical Takeoff Jain, Science and Technology Corp., Hyeonsoo Yeo, US Maneuvers -- Matthew W. Floros, US Army Research 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Break Army AFDD/AMRDEC Laboratory; Jan Goericke, AAI Corporation 2:30 PM – 3:00 PM The Flight Adaptive Blade For Optimum Rotor Response 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Thrust Augmentation & Control of Ducted-Fan VTOL 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Challenges in Rotor System and Hub Design for a (FABFORR) Concept -- Robert McKillip, Jr., Todd Air-Vehicles -- Mark De Roche, Aerofex Corporation Variable Diameter Tiltrotor -- Aaron M. Harrington, Quackenbush, Continuum Dynamics, Inc., 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Design and Development of Gamera: A Human Tarandeep Kalra, Joseph Milluzzo, VT Nagaraj, Powered Helicopter from the University of Maryland Inderjit Chopra, University of Maryland; Pranay Seshadri, 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM Break – Joseph Schmaus, Benjamin Berry, Graham University of Cambridge 3:30 PM – 4:00 PM Real-Time Extraction of Rotor Modal Information for Bowen-Davies, Brandon Bush, Chen Friedman, Mor 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM Break Stability Monitoring and Correlation -- Joseph Andrews, Gilad, Ananth Sridharan, William Staruk, Benjamin Jonathan Wong , Sikorsky Aircraft Woods, University of Maryland 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM No-Host Social Hour in the Hotel Bar 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM Rotating Hub Drag Prediction Methodology -- Matthew J. Book Signing: “Autogyros, Helicopters and Other Hill, Bell Helicopter V/STOL Aircraft: Volume I”, by Franklin D. Harris 4:30 PM – 5:00 PM Performance and Loads Correlation of a UH-60A Slowed 7:00 PM -- 9:30 PM Conference Banquet in Hotel Ballroom; “Designing the Rotor at High Advance Ratios -- Sesi Kottapalli, NASA- Future: A Vision for AHS and the Future of Vertical Flight” Ames Michael J. Hirschberg, Executive Director, American Helicopter Society, Intl. .