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FLIGHT TEST WEEK 'OPEN CONFERENCE' - hosted by Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE)

Running in Auditorium 3 on the Exhibits floor) on 18, 19, 20 Nov 2008

The Flight Test Week 'open program' allows visitors across the aerospace engineering industries to become fully acquainted with the latest technologies, challenges & achievements in the Flight Testing environment. The 3-day ‘free to attend’ open program allows visitors to sit in on relevant presentations that are of keen interest & to listen to some of the key personalities at the very top of this critical engineering sector.

Focus of Flight Test Week will be the test methods, practices, procedures, instrumentation, data processing and results of test programs from around the world. Keynote speakers from government and industry will talk about the many exciting new aircraft and ongoing programs, such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Bell Agusta BA609, Boeing 787, and many others currently being flight tested.

Current Flight Test Week 'open' presentations include:



Tuesday 18th November 2008
10.30-11.00   Testing the New Gen split-runway airport sequencing to save jet fuel and avoid airlines having to pay for airport congestion
Capt. Daniel Gellert
Director & CEO
Aerospace Safety And Security, USA
11.00-11.30   A400M Flight Test Program
Jesus Javier Fernandez Orio
Flight Test Engineer
INTA Flight Test Department, Spain
11.30-12.00   The Dawn of Wireless F-16 Instrumentation: A Survey of Flutter Flight Testing With Advanced Subminiature Telemetry System Concept Demonstrator
MATTHEW A. HAYDEN
Major, USAF
SIDNEY J. USRY
1st Lt, USAF
12.30-13.00   F-16 Aerial Demonstration Profile
Troy Pennington,
Lockheed Martin Aeronauitcs Company
13.00-13.30   MA-31 Live Fire Testing, Safe Operations in an unsupported Environment
GEOFFREY G. BOWMAN,
Capt, USAF
RYAN C. MOSS,
2d Lt, USAF
14.00-14.30   Reconstruction of in-flight interior vibro-acoustic response
Mr Sean Wu
V.P. and CTO
SenSound, USA
14.30-15.00   Filtering and Statistics of Flight Test Instrumentation Data
Doug Vu
Senior Staff Engineer, JSF Flight Test
Instrumentation System Architect
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co.
Fort Worth, TX USA
Albert Berdugo
VP and Chief Technology Officer
Teletronics Technology Corporation
Newtown, PA USA
15.00-15.30   Aerodynamic Design of the Lockheed Martin Cooperative Avionics Testbed
James H. Hogue, Lockheed Martin
Ian Gilchrist, Analytical Methods Inc.
15.30-16.00   A Probabilistic In-Flight Thrust Estimation Process
Joao Carlos Hoff – SFTE Member
Organization: Embraer (Brazil)
Av. Faria Lima 2170. São Jose dos Campos – SP. Brazil
16.00-16.20   
Rick Baker
Flight Test Consultant
Baker Aviation Services, LLC, USA
Wednesday 19th November 2008
10.00-10.30   Wind envelope expansion testing of the JAS 39 Gripen single and dual-seat aircraft
Johan Gingberg, SAAB
10.30-11.00   Flight Test Sensors
Jeffrey Onnen
GE Sensing and Inspection
11.00-11.30   Strain Gage Installation – Quality, Reliability & Performance
Mike McFarland, Ron Rutledge, JR Norman, Paul Davis
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Flight Test Instrumentation
11.30-12.00   Review of a Successful Distributed Networked and Modular FTI Implementation
David Doyle, Ruben Canizares and Ty Clark
ACRA CONTROL Ltd.
12.30-13.00   F-35 JSF Test Pilot Overview
Jon Beesley, F-35 Chief Test Pilot, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company
13.00-13.30   Flexibity Needs Sound Process: The M346 Flight Test Program
Paolo Chimetto,
Flight Test & Experimental Flight Line Manager,
AleniaAermacchi, Italy
Giovanni Pasinetti,
Head of  Flight Test Engineering,
AleniaAermacchi, Italy
Elio Pesci,
Head of Airworthiness Office,
AleniaAermacchi, Italy
13.30-14.00   Eclipse 500 Natural Icing Flight Test
Mr Wayne Croston
Lead Flight Test Engineer
Eclipse Aviation, USA
14.00-14.30   Using a NOAA Database, GPS, and/or Pressure Altitude Measurements to Determine Height above Terrain
James M. Greer, Jr.
Center for Aircraft Structural Life Extension (CAStLE)
U.S. Air Force Academy, USA
14.30-15.00   Use of Proteus to Flight Test the New AESA Radar for Global Hawk
David Brown
Flight Test Engineering, Proteus Flight Operations,
Northrop Grumman Corporation, Mojave, USA
15.00-15.30   Performance and Perception of Precision Approach and Landing Systems Aboard USS Harry S. Truman
Robert P. Benner
NAVAIR 5.1.6.10 Air Traffic Control and Landing Systems
15.30-16.00   Interior Beamforming Measurements Using 3D-Microphone Arrays
Dipl Ing Gunnar Heilmann
International Sales and Market Development Manager
GFaI tech, GmbH, Germany
Thursday 20th November 2008
09.30-10.00   Approximate Method for Determining the Optimum Hose Length for a Trailing Cone System
Carlos Roberto Silveira Fo., M. Sc.
Flight Test Engineering
EMBRAER SA – Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica
10.00-10.30   System Wide Synchronization in Network-Based Data Acquisition Systems and its Effect on Sampling Simultaneity
Milos Melicher, Ty Clark and Diarmuid Corry
ACRA CONTROL
10.30-11.00   Real-Time Collection of High-Data
Ralph Barrera
Senior System Engineer
Curtiss-Wright Controls, USA
11.00-11.30   Flight Testing Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene (SPK) Blend Fuels with USAF Military Aircraft
11.30-12.00   Aircraft Stall Speed Determination using Stochastic Filtering Approach
Celso Braga de Mendonça – PhD
Flight Test Engineer
Empresa Brasileira de Aeronáutica – Embraer
12.30-13.00   WRC 2007 Success for Flight Test Telemetry - Use It or Lose It
Mr Tim Chalfant
Flight Test Instrumentation
International Consortium for Telemetry Spectrum, USA
13.00-13.30   Flight Test Leadership; Managing from a "Box of Chocolates"
Terence A. Martin, Lockheed
13.30-14.00   Sailplane Aerotow Takeoff Performance Evaluation Through Model Validation
Russell E. Erb
Performance Master Instructor
USAF TPS (89B)
Senior Member, SFTE
Project Pilot
Gary L. Aldrich
Test Management Master Instructor
USAF TPS (82A)
Member, SFTE
Project Pilot
David L. Vanhoy
Flying Qualities Master Instructor
USAF TPS (94A)
Senior Member, SFTE
Project Pilot