Aircraft Design Technical Committee Meeting
18 September 2012
ATIO/MAO Conferences
Indianapolis, IN
Welcome, Introductions and Attendance
• Please introduce yourself
Name
Company / university / organization
How what you do relates to aircraft design
Your favorite aircraft
– Just tell us the first one that comes to mind
• TC members be sure to “sign in”
Remarks from the TC Chair
Remarks from the TC Chair
• My goals for the TC Complete the “org chart” structure we started over the past
year or more
Ensure we are staying on target / on charter – Charter and Opportunities document from Sep 24, 2004
Make operations efficient and documented – How do we elect new officers?
– How do we judge design competitions?
– How do we participate in conference organization?
– How do we nominate and select the Aircraft Design Award winner?
Provide opportunities for TC members to be engaged
Meet AIAA and TAC expectations
Remarks from the TC Chair
• Summer Survey
Asked TC members to provide two responses
– Why you joined the TC and what benefits you get from membership
– What activities will you participate in to support TC activities
Received 13 replies (not too late to send replies)
Want to use this to “assign” TC members to various
subcommittees
– Provide a list of resources available to help with activities
– If no one is interested in a given activity, consider if that meets our
“charter”
Leadership
(Chair, Vice-Chair,
Secretary)
Technical
Development Recognition
Development of
Future Aircraft
Designers
Conferences
Publications
Aircraft Design
Award
AIAA Membership
(Fellows)
Student Design
Competitions
K-12 outreach
Young Professionals TC and PC Liaisons
TC Administration
CADWG
Organizational Structure for Aircraft Design TC
Aircraft Design TC Member Expectations
• TC leadership:
Chair, vice chair,
secretary
Subcommittee chair
Working group chair
• Technical Development
Conferences:
– General chair or technical
chair
– Planning committee
– Track organizer
– Abstract reviewer
– Session chair
– Submit and present
papers
– Organize panel sessions
Publications:
– Review Journal articles
– Serve as a Journal
Associate Editor
– Aerospace America
highlights author
– Write for or compile TC
newsletter
Liaison
– Attend meetings and
report on activities of other
TCs and / or PCs
– Coordinate activities
where appropriate
CADWG
– Organize technical
exchange meetings
– Participate as presenter
• Recognition
Aircraft Design Award
– Coordinate award process
– Nominate candidates for
award
– Write letters of support
AIAA Membership
– Nominate TC colleagues
for upgrade to Associate
Fellow and Fellow
– Provide reference letters
• Future Aircraft Designers
Student Design
Competitions
– Coordinate paper design
competition judging
– Submit paper design
competition abstracts /
prepare RFPs
– Judge design competition
entries
– Judge Design Build Fly
report entries
– On-site support for DBF
K-12 Outreach
– Coordinate outreach
events around
conferences
– Participate in outreach
event as volunteer
Young Professionals
– Conduct and publish
“accomplished
professional” career
interviews
– Be an interviewee for
career interviews
– Interface with AIAA Young
Professionals committee
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• Stay in communication / attend TC meetings
• Vote for the AIAA Aircraft Design Award
• Participate in (at least) two other activities per year, many listed below:
These activities vary in effort and difficulty; members with more seniority should take on more difficult roles
My hopes for TC meetings
• TC meetings with short reports on progress of various subcommittees
Much of the work done by subcommittees “outside” TC meetings
• More time for networking with colleagues
• More time for technical discussions / presentations
• No more than two hours
Hopefully, including this meeting
Technical Development
Conferences
Conferences
• ATIO 2012
503 attendees at combined ATIO / MAO (as of this afternoon)
Dani Soban – theme chair; Bill Crossley ATIO/MAO liaison
– Nine joint ATIO / MAO sessions – many aircraft design related
– Tim Takahashi helped with this
Large number of aircraft design sessions
One last minute cancellation; few no shows
– New “hard deadline” seems to improve last minute changes
Conferences
• ASM 2013 Held at Gaylord Resort in Grapevine, TX (just north of DFW airport)
January 7 -10.
– Manuscript Deadline Date: 12/20/2012
– Early Bird Reg Deadline Date: 12/10/2012
– Cancellation Deadline Date: 12/24/2012
Gil Crouse is Aircraft Design TC representative on organizing committee
Gil had requested volunteers for session chair positions
6 (I think) Aircraft Design sessions
Tim Takahashi working with Mitch Wolff on a special session on INVENT (AFRL program)
Possible opportunity to re-start CADWG here (will be mentioned later)
Conferences
• Aviation 2013 Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles, CA; August 12-14, 2013.
– Abstract central to start accepting abstracts Oct 1
– Not sure of abstract due dates yet
An “intermediate step” on the way to the New Event Model
ATIO will be a part of the technical conferences co-located here (International Powered Lift also co-located)
Jim Vasatka from Boeing will be “general or executive chair” – Working on recruiting high-level panelists and speakers
Four “branches” – Commercial, Military, Other (GA, biz, UAS, rotorcraft), Technical activities (ATIO, CASE, IPLC)
Our role will be to support the ATIO portion of the event, and to help support conference as usual
– This is Aircraft Design TC’s major conference
– Will need representatives on planning committee soon
Dave Maroney (deputy director for Aircraft and Atmospheric Systems) charged with helping the technical integration
Conferences
• SCI TECH 2014
First event using the New Event Model – Will encompass previous ASM, eventually also SDM,
possibly GNC and MAO (Neal Pfeiffer will have more details)
– www.aiaa.org/NewAIAAEventModel
Action items for TC – Need to submit topic area chair(s) and updated call for
papers to KC Niedermeyr at AIAA by October 2
– Gil Crouse has been our ASM topic area chair; I would like to have two (hopefully, Gil + one other)
Committee Feedback for New Event Model (April 30, 2012)
Historically, the aircraft design TC has supported the events that would become part of the Aviation and Aeronautics and the Science and Technology events; hence, our desire to play leading roles as organizers in those events.
Our committee expresses interest in the Defense and Security and the Propulsion and Energy events, but there was no clear consensus on what our role should be. The incoming chair and vice-chair decided to assign “S” at the discipline levels here, because this is our best guess of how our TC’s resources would be best used in the new event model.
We are willing to help out as needed and as available in broader roles in the other events.
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• Aircraft Design Technical Committee
Tier
Aviation and
Aeronautics
Defense and
Security
Propulsion
and Energy
Science and
Technology
Space and
Astronautics
Plenary O N/A N/A N/A N/A
Integration O N/A N/A O N/A
Discipline O S S O N/A
Technical Development
Publications
Aerospace America – Year in Review
• Aircraft Design article draft has been completed.
• Highlights include NASA ERA, Subsonic Fixed Wing developments, Boeing SUGAR, Flying Car, VTOL studies, Electric aircraft (Solar Impulse, Pipistrel's Panthera etc.), BAMS, Phantom Eye and X-47B UAV's, F-35, Commercial and business jet aircraft
• Draft and images submitted to AA editor
• Final draft, to be approved by TC (historically, this has been the officers), will be re-submitted to editor again this week
Aerospace America – Year in Review
• From AIAA TC Chair Manual: …an article summarizing the accomplishments and setbacks of their
technical specialty during the calendar year. The analytical twist and incisive style of each piece must show that the authors are the profession’s foremost experts telling it like it was — good, bad, and why.
…these articles are to reflect this year’s activity in a particular discipline. They are NOT reports on committee activities or prognostications of future events.
• Do we do this in our articles now? We tend to highlight aircraft with first flights; have recently started adding
points about NASA design studies
• For 2012 article, no TC members sent ideas to Dyna or Charley
• For 2013, add a few additional members to this team; have entire TC submit items (as close to mandatory as I can make it – like aircraft design award vote)
Journal of Aircraft
• Willem Anemaat is associate editor from our TC
• Opportunity to volunteer as a potential reviewer so Willem has a pool of resources to call upon
• Encourage submission of good, complete papers presented at conferences (like this one)
• Should TC be more actively involved in other AIAA Journals? Other archival journals about aircraft / aircraft design?
Technical Development
TC and PC liaisons
TC and PC Liaisons
• Help foster coordination of activities Expect this to become more important in New Event Model
Find common themes for joint sessions, help mitigate conflicting activities
• Provide Aircraft Design TC with best practices from other TCs
• Support idea that all TCs/PCs are working toward advancing aerospace, not competing for limited resources
• If there is a TC / PC you think we should be more closely aligned with, please consider becoming a liaison or inviting a liaison
TC and PC Liaisons
• Airbreathing Propulsion – Dyna Benchergui
Highly Successful 1st Propulsion Aerodynamics workshop at
Joint Propulsion 2012 Conference. In future workshops, may
cover airframe/propulsion optimization, an area relevant to
aircraft design TC.
Some topics pertaining to Aircraft Design TC and V/STOL TC
organized at JPC 2012 . Quite a strong representation from
the NASA ERA and SFW programs.
Strong synergy to involve aircraft design TC at future JPC
conferences (if TC is interested)
TC and PC Liaisons
• Multidisciplinary Design Optimization
Bill Crossley had been Aircraft Design TC liaison to MDO
(probably should replace me, now that I am chair)
Tim Takahashi has been MDO TC liaison to Aircraft Design
• Systems-related PC - Hernando Jimenez
• Green Engineering PC - Dani Soban
• V/STOL – Charley Svoboda
• Others I did not remember here? (will re-check the
summer survey responses)
CADWG
• Conceptual Aircraft Design Working Group A “working group” affiliated with the Aircraft Design TC
Membership in Aircraft Design TC not required for CADWG participation
• Tim Takahashi had been / still is organizer
• Should this continue? In what form?
• A continuing workshop – technical interface with no publication requirements; hot topics, etc.?
• Potential opportunity to have Comparative Aircraft Flight Efficiency Foundation as CADWG presenters at ASM 2013 (in works – not finalized)
Recognition
Aircraft Design Award
Aircraft Design Award Status Sept, 2012
•2012 Award Summary
•2013 Award
•Readiness Stoplight
•Schedule
•Current Nominees
•Potential NEW Nominations
• As of Jan 2012 we had NO new nominees for 2012 and were in
danger of not being able to make an award in 2011
(a min of 2 nominees are required)
• 1/17 Requirement of 2 NEW nominees rescinded
• 1/23 Deadline Extended to March 1st (2012 only)
• A very Special thanks to those who worked on nomination packages
Andrew Hahn for Team Pipistrel-USA
Dennis Carter for Jon Sharp (Nemesis Air Racing)
Samantha A. Magill for Michimasa Fujino (Honda Aircraft)
• As a result we had 6 quality nominees (3 carry over and 3 new) for
the 2012 award
2012 History
2012 Aircraft Design Award Nominees Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University (nominated by Swami Karunamoorthy) Over a period of thirty five years, Dr. Agarwal has made pioneering contributions to both the development of CFD methods
and industrial grade codes for the aerodynamic analysis and design of all categories of aerospace vehicles (transport and
fighter aircraft, missile and launch vehicles, helicopter rotors, and hypersonic configurations) that were routinely used in
McDonnell Douglas (MDC).
Darold Cummings, Aerospace Consultant ( nominated by Dan Raymer) In a distinguished 40+ year career, has made a reputation as one of the most creative voices in aircraft design.
He is best known as the configuration designer of the Northrop YF-23 the now familiar vehicle from a blank sheet.
Egbert Torenbeek, Delft University (nominated by William Anemaat) His "Synthesis of Subsonic Airplane Design" is an all time classic and is by many called "Torenbeek." This book can be found
on the shelves at many companies and are a valuable reference. His teachings at Delft University of Technology have
resulted in many graduates who went into pursuing aircraft design careers.
Michimasa Fujino (nominated by Samantha A. Magill ) Nominated for the design and creation of the Honda Business jet with novel over wing engine installation and NLF airfoil and
fuselage nose cone.
Jon Sharp (nominated by Dennis Carter) His reputation as a designer, builder and flyer of the Nemesis racer is unmatched in recent history. With winning 45 of 48
races it was entered in , and 9 consecutive Formula 1 Reno National Championships, the Nemesis truly deserves its place in
the National Air and Space Museum, which described it as “the most successful aircraft in air racing history”
Team Pipistrel (nominated by Andrew Hahn) Team Pipistrel-USA is internationally known for their efficient aircraft design that won the Green Flight Challenge. The
challenge pushed the limit of aircraft efficiency and Team Pipistrel-USA achieved 403.5 passenger miles per gallon equivalent
at an average of 107 miles per hour with their Taurus G4 aircraft.
2012 AIAA Aircraft Design Award Results
Michimasa
Fujino Honda
Aircraft
Company
Team
Pipistrel-
USA
Jon Sharp
Nemesis Air
Racing
Darold
Cummings
Aerospace
Consultant
Ramesh
Agarwal
Washington
University
Egbert
Torenbeek
Delft
University
meets spirit (75% min required) 95% 95% 100% 100% 90% 95%
averages - all scores* 7.21 9.89 9.47 8.68 12.53 7.58
averages - (3) conflicts removed 7.21 9.53 9.32 8.53 12.53 7.58
2012 Award Reciepient: Michimasa Fujino Honda Aircraft Company
"For pioneering the unique over the wing engine mount configuration
and the design and development of the HondaJet light business jet.”
*56% of regular members sent evaluations, we are targeting 100%
2013 Design Award Readiness
Requirement Status Comment
Min of 3 nominations Yes (5) 3 carryover from 2011
2 new nominations Yes (3)
• For an award to be presented in a given cycle, it is no longer required to have at least two new
nominations. The award can be considered for presentation as long as there are at least three
eligible nominations on file by the nomination deadline
• Past TC members can now be nominated for the award associated with that TC twelve months
after the expiration of their membership term.
2013 Aircraft Design Award Nominees From 2012 (considered for 2013 & 2014)
Jon Sharp (nominated by Dennis carter) His reputation as a designer, builder and flyer of the Nemesis racer is unmatched in recent history. With winning 45 of 48
races it was entered in, and 9 consecutive Formula 1 Reno National Championships, the Nemesis truly deserves its place in
the National Air and Space Museum, which described it as “the most successful aircraft in air racing history”
Team Pipistrel (nominated by Andrew Hahn) Team Pipistrel-USA is internationally known for their efficient aircraft design that won the Green Flight Challenge. The
challenge pushed the limit of aircraft efficiency and Team Pipistrel-USA achieved 403.5 passenger miles per gallon equivalent
at an average of 107 miles per hour with their Taurus G4 aircraft.
From 2011 (last year for consideration)
Ramesh Agarwal, Washington University (nominated by Swami Karunamoorthy) Over a period of thirty five years, Dr. Agarwal has made pioneering contributions to both the development of CFD methods
and industrial grade codes for the aerodynamic analysis and design of all categories of aerospace vehicles (transport and
fighter aircraft, missile and launch vehicles, helicopter rotors, and hypersonic configurations) that were routinely used in
McDonnell Douglas (MDC).
Darold Cummings, Aerospace Consultant (nominated by Dan Raymer) In a distinguished 40+ year career, has made a reputation as one of the most creative voices in aircraft design.
He is best known as the configuration designer of the Northrop YF-23 the now familiar vehicle from a blank sheet…
Egbert Torenbeek, Delft University (nominated by William Anemaat) His "Synthesis of Subsonic Airplane Design" is an all time classic and is by many called "Torenbeek." This book can be found
on the shelves at many companies and are a valuable reference. His teachings at Delft University of Technology have
resulted in many graduates who went into pursuing aircraft design careers.
2013 Aircraft Design Award Schedule
2/1/2013
Nominations for
2013 due
6/17
recommendation
to AIAA
ATIO Sept
2013 Award Presented
ATIO Sept
Review 2014 nominations
6/1 TC
Evaluations
Due
2012 2013
Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar April May Jun July Aug Sept
4 months until
deadline for 2013
nominations
To
day
ATIO Sept 17-19
2012 Award Presented,
Review 2013 Nominations
Person/Program Sponsor Status
•Solar Impulse
•Walt Gillette (787) Michael Drake
•Gordon Gibson Cory Tallman Letters of recommendation
•Eclipse Dennis Carter
•Cirrus Gil Crouse
•SpaceShip One Thomas Gally
•Matt Keenon Sam Wilson
•A380 John Fielding
•X-43 Armund Chaput
•OTHERS????
Possible Aircraft Design Award Nominations
New AIAA Award Guideline
New Streamlined Award Nomination Process – Effective 1 January 2013
New to the process is a limit of 7 pages for the nomination package, whether
submitted online or hard copy. In addition to the nomination form, supporting
materials include a one-page basis for award, one-page resume, one-page
public contributions, and a minimum of 3 one-page signed letters of endorsement
from AIAA members.
Any AIAA member in good standing is eligible to serve as a nominator.
Nominators are strongly encouraged to begin using the streamlined award
nomination process, and are reminded that quality of information is most
important. Full implementation will occur on 1 January 2013.
AIAA members may log into www.aiaa.org with their user name and password to
submit a nomination online or to download the nomination form.
Thanks,
Carol
----
Carol Stewart, MBA
Manager, Honors and Awards
• Nominations must be submitted by Feb1 To AIAA
• Minimum Nomination Requirement
1.) Nomination Form
2.) One page basis for award
3.) One page resume
4.) 3 letters of recommendations (from AIAA members)
2013 Nominations
Thanks to all for supporting this award !!!
You make the process work!!
Mail to: Joseph K Schnoebelen
18233 155th PL SE
Renton, WA 98058
(425) 342-4931
e-mail [email protected]
Carol Stewart,
Honors & Awards Liaison AIAA
1801 Alexander Bell Drive #500
Reston VA 20191
703-264-7623 fax: 703-264-7551
e-mail: [email protected]
or
2012 Aircraft Design Award
• Meet the Aircraft Design Award winner event Held Monday evening (Sep 17) starting at 8:00pm
About 40 attendees
Fujino-san made a 30 minute presentation and stayed to talk with attendees until 9:30pm
• Support for coffee and dessert service from TAC; using funds available to support TC activities Thanks again to Neal Pfeiffer
• Some discussion that this could be a template for recognizing future award recipients in the New Event Model
• Any thoughts or feedback ?
Recognition
AIAA Membership Status
AIAA Membership Status Upgrades
• Encourage upgrade to senior member (easy to do based on time in grade)
• Apply for upgrade to associate fellow (need nominator – can be self – and three associate fellows or above to provide reference; not easy – but not hard)
• Aircraft Design TC members and alums as AIAA Fellows (difficult, limited to a small percentage of AIAA membership – but, to my knowledge, the TC has not actively tried to support TC members for this, we do have a few fellows on Roster)
• Upgrades both encourage recognize participation in AIAA
Recognition
ATIO Best Paper Award
ATIO Best Paper Award
• Discussion arose during TC meeting around
ATIO best paper award
• Has been “neglected” recently
• Mark Price to re-start this for Aviation 2013
Development of Future Aircraft Designers
AIAA Student Aircraft Design
Competitions
2011-2012 Academic Year Results
• Dani Soban served as head judge and interface with Rachel Andino and Stephen Brock (AIAA staff)
• How many entries in each category, award winners, number who could attend ATIO? How many judges?
• Serving as a judge, writing topic abstracts and RFPs (if selected) is an interesting and fun way to support something the TC is passionate about
2012-2013 Academic Year Topics and Status
• Topics selected, RFPs generated and posted on AIAA website Graduate Team Topic
– Aircraft Design TC generated topic for HALE UAS with DE for BMD
– Hernando and Bill prepared RFP in a hurry, but with help from Craig Nickol, Andy Hahn, Doug Wells and Adam Ladd, have something that is plausible
Individual UG Topic – Highly-flexible UAV; really a “wing design” problem involving aeroelasticity
– Very late in arriving at AIAA, from Structures TC
– I had offered help of Aircraft Design TC if RFP did not show up at AIAA
Team UG topic – Hybrid electric-turboprop ATR-72 size / speed aircraft submitted via VSTOL TC
• We will offer to provide judges again TC discussion during meeting indicates that we should tell SAC we feel poorly-
qualified to judge the Individual UG topic
• Dani Soban willing to be coordinator – would like a deputy so we keep the process smooth if / when Dani not available
Future of the Conceptual Design Study Competitions
• All TCs can submit topic abstracts to Student Activities Committee (SAC); SAC selects topics and assigns them to categories
TAC and SAC leadership (Neal Pfeiffer, Basil Hassan and Neal Barlow) know about our frustrations and desires to make the competitions successful
Rob McDonald and Hernando Jimenez have offered to act in liaison role with SAC to improve communications and roles; it appears several aircraft design TC members are listed as members of SAC
• “Paper design competition” makes this seem weaker than DBF Should be part of the portfolio we offer to students neither option better
or worse
• Want to keep the AIAA aircraft design study competitions relevant and useful to community – is this happening?
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Design/Build/Fly Fall 2012 Update
Cessna Aircraft Company
Raytheon Missile Systems
AIAA Foundation
Applied Aerodynamics
Aircraft Design
Design Engineering
Flight Test
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2011/2012 Mission: Cessna East Field, Wichita, KS
Small Passenger Aircraft
Passengers Simulated with Aluminum blocks
No size limitations, 1.5lb battery pack, T/O in 100 ft
Ferry mission scored by speed (#laps in 4 minutes)
Passenger mission scored on Weight of Pax
Time to Climb Mission:
CAM-f3q Altitude sensing system
Triggers a water dump visual indication
Overall score includes Written Report, RAC (Weight)
and Multiple Flight Scores, as usual
Contest Expanded to three days – start on Friday
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Participant Demographics
68 teams submitted written reports
57 teams attended flyoff
Significant international participation (11 at flyoff)
Approx 500 attendees
54 teams completed tech successfully
48 teams with flight attempts
39 teams with scoring flights
Company Confidential
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Design/Build/Fly
Contest Participation
http://www.aiaadbf.org/
Attendance down due to new limitation of one
team per university
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Contingency Planning
Company Confidential
Pawnee
Ro
ck R
d
McConnell AFB
Path of Tornado near 2012 DBF Competition Site, 4/14/2012
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Major events
Flights commenced Friday at 1PM until 6PM
Flights Saturday 8:30AM until Approx 2PM
Suspended at 12:45PM due to high winds
Winds were not expected to ease for rest of day
Due to potential for severe weather, field was
cleared at 2PM
Tornado passed within ¼ mile of contest site
late that night
Contest terminated Sunday due to downed
power lines which restricted field access
Company Confidential
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Determination of winners
All teams had access to two complete
mission attempts
Only ten teams had three attempts, two
completed all three missions:
U. Colorado
UC Irvine
By unanimous consensus of the DBF
organizing committee, it was ruled that the
winners would be based on the two complete
flight rotations
Company Confidential
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Design/Build/Fly – Top Places 1st – San Jose State University: Team PhalanX
2nd – University of California at
Irvine: Angel of Attack
3rd – University of
Colorado: H2BuffalO
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Lessons Learned
“Pre-loading” Tech worked very well. Flight
line was full Friday PM and Saturday AM
Weather contingency plan was in place and
was executed.
Lack of field access Sunday was
unexpected. Difficult to communicate with
teams.
Will institute an “at flyoff” communications
plan for the 2013 contest.
Company Confidential
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2012/2013 Mission: Apr 19-21, 2013, TIMPA Field, Tucson, AZ
Joint Strike Fighter
Payloads include Estes rockets ballasted to 0.25-1.0lbs each. Internal and external store carriage.
Takeoff within a prescribed 30’x30’ square
1.5 lb battery pack limit
Missions:
Short Takeoff (empty, scored on #laps in 4 minutes)
Stealth Mission (internal stores, score based on #stores)
Strike Mission (Six Internal/external stores, time for 3 laps)
RAC includes weight; length and wing span
Overall score includes Written Report, Multiple Flight Scores, and Weight, as usual
Development of Future Aircraft Designers
K-12 Outreach
K-12 Outreach
• K-12 educational activities historically co-located with
ATIO
Nothing happening in 2012
Dennis Carter has often been the focal point for this
• Aviation 2013 opportunity
Is this something we have interest and bandwidth to support?
Should we more formally engage AIAA outreach – or are we
already engaged and I don’t know it?
Can we have a deputy / co-focal volunteer for Aviation 2013?
– Mark Holly volunteered to start this process for Aviation 2013
Development of Future Aircraft Designers
Young Professionals
Developing Relevant Skills and Fostering Interest
• How does the TC help develop skills and
interests relevant for aircraft designers?
• Should we offer short courses? If so, can we
de-conflict with those from other providers
(including several TC members and alums)
“So You Want to be an Aircraft Designer”
• YP interview an aircraft designer and write an article
Who would be the leading aircraft designer(s) we would
interview?
Who would be interviewee?
Should we revisit the “so you want to be an aircraft designer”
article in the student journal (or even in Aerospace America)
every few years to keep it relevant and to also informally
recognize “leaders” in our field
– Have 1984 example from Aerospace America
• Need a coordinator for this effort
TC Administration
Current Officers and Terms
• Bill Crossley, TC chair, May 2012 – April 2014
• Hernando Jimenez, TC vice chair / chair elect, May 2012 – April 2014
Will become chair in May 2014
• Jason Merrett, secretary, May 2012 – April 2014
• Nominations requested in September 2013
• Vote conducted before April 2014 TC meeting
TC New Member Nominations
• Current window for new nominations is open now
At last count we did have room for new members
Summer survey prompted a few members to volunteer to
resign if space needed
Dave Hammond moved to “emeritus” status
• Some thoughts
Have been missing participation from NAVAIR
Limited GA participation (although there is a separate, but
small general aviation TC)
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