First Flights: X-36 and X-45A A UAV Perspective Mr. Terry Weber

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1 Wednesday, 24 October 2007 Boeing B100 Auditorium & Prologue Room First Flights: X-36 and X-45A A UAV Perspective Mr. Terry Weber Boeing Test & Evaluation Engineer This presentation, originally given at the 2003 SFTE/AIAA/SETP Flight Test Safety Workshop, looks at the first flights of two very different unmanned systems; the X- 36 Tailless Fighter Agility Research Aircraft and the X-45A Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle Demonstrator. The talk will cover general lessons to be drawn for the flight test of new aircraft, and specific considerations for remotely operated aircraft. Finally, the entire X-36 and X-45A flight test programs will be reviewed. Social/Dinner 5:30 6:30 Presentation 6:30 7:30 Pizza, Salad or Veggie Tray, Soda, and Cookies Reservation Deadline Friday, 19 October Tom Mroczkowski, , thomas.j.mroczkowski@boeing.com Since joining the McDonnell Douglas Flight Test Engineering department in St. Louis in 1981, Terry Weber has worked on the F/A- 18, F-15, and T-38C, along with the X-36 and X-45 unmanned aircraft programs. In addition, Mr. Weber has served on non-advocate and flight readiness review boards for the X-37 and X-48B experimental aircraft. Mr. Weber has a B. Sc. in Aerospace and Engineering Mechanics and a M. Sc. in Engineering Mechanics. He is a senior member of the Society of Flight Test Engineers and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Since 2006, Mr. Weber has served as chair of the AIAA Flight Test Technical Committee. $5 Students/EA Members $10 AIAA Members $15 Non-Members Interested in joining AIAA? Contact Brandon Wegge (314) for free ticket information

2 Thursday, 29 November 2007 Boeing B100 Café Escape Systems: The Evolution of Ejection Seats Mr. Kurt Ricketts This presentation is an informal discussion regarding the evolution of escape systems in cold war era combat aircraft with physical exhibits. The presentation will be divided into four related escape system components: parachutes, canopy/escape hatches, survival equipment and ejection seats with the latter segment further divided into a discussion of the unique features of each seat and the aircraft they came from. The aircraft represented are the F-86, F-102, F-104, B-52D, B-52E, A-7, F-4 and F-106. About the Speaker: After earning a BS at Lindenwood College, Kurt began work at McDonnell Douglas in 1978 as a Technical Illustrator for Product Support. In 1980, Kurt moved to Tool Engineering supporting such programs as F-4, F-15, AV-8B, F/A18A-D, NASP, ATF, A-12 and F/A/18E/F. In 1981, he began collecting and restoring ejection seats. Kurt has been designing and building aviation exhibits for the Greater St. Louis Air and Space Museum since He has been a board member of the museum since Photos courtesy of Kurt Ricketts Social/Dinner 5:30 6:30 Presentation 6:30 7:30 London Broil, Salad, Potato, Vegetable, Soda $15 Member $10 Student/Educator Associate $20 Non-Member $2 Presentation Only Reservation Deadline Monday, 26 November Tom Mroczkowski, , thomas.j.mroczkowski@boeing.com Interested in joining AIAA? Contact Brandon Wegge (314) for free ticket

3 Wednesday, 12 December 2007 Boeing B100 Café Flight Testing: The F-15 STOL/Maneuvering Demonstrator Presented by Mr. Larry Walker Project Pilot on the F-15 S/MTD The presenter and primary test pilot for this fascinating program is Larry Walker. Larry was a test pilot with McDonnell Douglas Aircraft in St Louis for 25 years and tested many aircraft ranging from the slatted F-4, F-18 full scale development, AV-8B full scale development, Pegasus engine digital engine control development, the F-15 S/MTD and ACTIVE programs, F-15E high angle of attack and spin tests, and the X-36, the remotely piloted, tailless, high angle of attack research aircraft. Larry is a Fellow of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots; he was formerly a Marine pilot and military test pilot. His decorations include two awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross and 13 Strike/Flight Air Medals for combat action in the Vietnam War. He has given 10 presentations to the Society of Experimental Test Pilots, and authored 12 articles for the McDonnell-Douglas Product Support Digest. Most recently, he was the Lead Author and Editor of the V/STOL Chapter in the SETP Guide to Critical and Exploratory Flight Testing. Social/Dinner 5:30 6:30 Presentation 6:30 7:30 Pizza, Salad or Veggie Tray, Soda, and Cookies $5 Students/EA Members $10 AIAA Members $15 Non-Members Reservation Deadline Friday, 7 December Tom Mroczkowski, , thomas.j.mroczkowski@boeing.com Interested in joining AIAA? Contact Brandon Wegge (314) for free ticket information

4 Sponsored by: AIAA SLU/Parks Student Chapter Guest Speaker Dr. Randii R. Wessen Thursday, 31January 2008 St. Louis University Grand Hall, Room 409, DuBourg Hall 221 N. Grand The Future of U.S. Planetary Exploration This presentation will discuss the robotic planetary missions currently in operations at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and those planned for the upcoming decades. It will include descriptions of missions to the major planets, minor bodies and the search for Terra Nova, the search for an Earth-like planet outside of our Solar System. Dr. Wessen, of the California Institute of Technology s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, has worked on programs to seek detection of Earth-like planets around other stars, if they exist. His program experience includes; Telecommunications & Mission Systems Manager for the Mars Program, the Supervisor for the Science System Engineering Group, Manager of the Cassini Science Planning & Operations Element, the Galileo Deputy Sequence Team Chief, and the Voyager Science Sequence Coordinator for the Uranus & Neptune encounters. Social 6:00-6:30 Dinner 6:30 7:00 Presentation 7:00 8:00 Cash Bar 6:00 7:00 Salad, Entrée, Vegetable, and Dessert, Coffee/Tea $5 Students/EA Members $15 AIAA Members $20 Non-Members Reservation Deadline Monday, 28 January Kay Bopp, Larry Boyer boyerlg@slu.edu Kevin Vandevorde vandevkm@slu.edu Interested in joining AIAA? Contact Brandon Wegge (314) for free ticket information

5 AIAA Pre-College Outreach Engineering Workshop Declassify the Classroom Visit Cracking the secret to. Inspiring students Sharing your story Mentoring teachers Fun educational activities Prepare for Engineers Week! Help inspire the next generation of engineers and aerospace workers! This workshop will introduce materials available for talks with students and educators, activities to explain basic engineering in a fun way, introduce equipment available for loan to AIAA members. Step in front of a group of students with confidence that you can make a difference! Workshop Features: Straw Rocket Launcher Water Bottle Rocket Launcher Presentation Materials DVDs of Educational Materials Giveaways for the students Saturday, 16 February 9 am Noon Boeing Building 100 Café Non-Boeing attendees must pre-register Contact: Karen Copper Karen.k.copper@boeing.com

6 Thursday, 10 April 2008 Boeing Building 100 Prologue Room and Theater Launch Vehicles Today and Tomorrow Guest Speaker Teresa Kinney General Overview of Expendable Launch Vehicles (Atlas, Delta, Taurus, Pegasus) Mission Flow (Analysis, Test, Integration, Flight, and Post flight) Constellations Launch Vehicle (CLV) Overview Program Requirements, Progress, and Challenges Ares I-X Flight Demonstration Vehicle Teresa Kinney is employed by NASA at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. She works on the Expendable Launch Vehicles (ELV) Program in the Structural Dynamics and Loads Branch, and is the ELV Structures and Dynamics Liaison to the Constellation Program. Ms. Kinney is an active member of the AIAA Structural Dynamics Technical Committee. Social/Dinner 5:30-6:30 Presentation 6:30 7:30 Pizza, Salad or Vegetable Tray, Cookie and Soda $5 Students/EA Members $15 AIAA Members $20 Non-Members Reservation Deadline Monday, 7 April Tom Mroczkowski, , thomas.j.mroczkowski@boeing.com Interested in joining AIAA? Contact Brandon Wegge (314) for free ticket information

7 Sponsored by: AIAA SLU/Parks Student Chapter AIAA Student Conference Awards Banquet Friday, 18 April 2008 Life as an Astronaut: Highlights of STS-99 Guest Speaker Dr. Janice Voss Shuttle Mission STS-99 launched on Feb. 11, 2000, and was Dr. Voss fifth space flight. Dr. Voss will describe the mission, including a 15 minute video about the flight, and other aspects of life as an astronaut. St. Louis University St. Louis Room, Room 300, Busch Student Center 20 N. Grand Dr. Voss received a BS degree in engineering science from Purdue University, a MS degree in electrical engineering and a PhD in aeronautics/astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She became an astronaut in July A veteran of five space flights, Dr. Voss has logged over 49 days in space, traveling 18.8 million miles in 779 Earth orbits. In February 2000, during Voss' last mission, she and five other astronauts aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour, mapped with radar more than 47 million miles of our planet's land surface. For the last several years (October 2004 to November 2007), Dr. Voss worked at NASA Ames Research Center, where she was the Science Director of NASA's Kepler Spacecraft Research Center, looking for Earth-size planets in other solar systems. Dr. Voss currently serves as Lead of the Astronaut Office Payloads, Johnson Space Center. Social 6:00-6:30 Dinner 6:30 7:00 Presentation 7:00 8:00 Cash Bar 6:00 7:00 Salad, Entrée, Vegetable, and Dessert, Coffee/Tea Free Conference Registrants $20 Members & Students $25 Non-Members $2 Presentation only Reservation Deadline Monday, 14 April Kay Bopp, Larry Boyer boyerlg@slu.edu Kevin Vandevorde vandevkm@slu.edu Darin Haudrich Interested in joining AIAA? Contact Brandon Wegge (314) for free ticket information

8 Annual Awards Banquet Thursday, 22 May 2008 Limestones Restaurant at Crystal Springs Quarry Golf Club Hypersonics: Back to the Future Again and Again Guest Speaker Dr. Richard P. Hallion Historically, frustrated attempts to generate manned hypersonic systems have generally obscured an important story: the steady expansion of hypersonic capabilities from the first interest in hypersonic flight through the era of the Space Shuttle and on to programs such as the X-51 of today. Dr. Hallion is the Alfred Verville Fellow at the National Air and Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, having retired in 2006 as a Senior Advisor on the Secretary of the Air Force staff. He is the author and editor of numerous books, articles, and essays on aerospace technology and military operations, and is a Fellow of the AIAA. Honors & Awards Please join us in recognizing our 2008 AIAA Section Award Recipients Section Service John Mohr Technical Management Polysonic Wind Tunnel Center of Excellence Civic Award Fred Harms Technical Contribution Mori Mani Social 5:00 6:00 Dinner 6:00 7:00 Awards 7:00 8:00 Presentation 8:00 9:00 Salad, Buffet Dinner, Assorted Desserts, Coffee/Tea Cash Alcohol Bar $15 Students/EA Members $25 AIAA Members $30 Non-Members $2 Presentation Only Reservation Deadline Monday, 22 May Tom Mroczkowski, , thomas.j.mroczkowski@boeing.com Interested in joining AIAA? Contact Brandon Wegge (314) for free ticket information

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10 Wednesday, 11 June 2008 Boeing B100 Prologue Room NASA Glenn: Aerodynamic and Space R&D Status Presented by Dr. Woodrow Whitlow Jr. This presentation will discuss present and future research and development work at the NASA Glenn facility in both the aerodynamic and space arenas. Dr. Whitlow will focus on the future programs in which the current research will contribute. Social/Dinner 5:30 6:30 Presentation 6:30 7:30 Pizza, Salad or Veggie Tray, Soda, and Cookies Reservation Deadline Friday, 6 June Rob Sutton, , robert.w.sutton3@boeing.com Darin Haudrich, , darin.p.haudrich@boeing.com Dr. Woodrow Whitlow Jr. is Director of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field in Cleveland, Ohio. He is responsible for planning, organizing and directing the activities required to accomplish the missions assigned to the center. While managing an annual budget of approximately $500 million, he oversees a workforce of close to 1,700 civil service employees that is supported by approximately 1,400 contractors. The center has 24 major facilities and over 500 specialized research facilities located at the 350-acre Cleveland site and the 6,400-acre Plum Brook Station site in Sandusky, Ohio. $10 Students/EA Members $15 AIAA Members $20 Non-Members Interested in joining AIAA? Contact Brandon Wegge (314) for free ticket information