SETP - Board Of Directors

2007/2008 SETP TREASURER
TIM MOREY (M)
CDR, USN

Commander Tim “Eel” Morey was raised in North Salem, New York, and was commissioned in May 1987 through the NROTC Program at the State University of New York Maritime College, Bronx, New York, where he earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering, and a USCG Third Mate license in the Merchant Marine. He attended flight school in Aug 1987 and was designated a Naval Aviator at VT-25 in July 1989, NAS Beeville, Texas. After initial training in the F-14B Tomcat with VF-101 at NAS Oceana, Virginia, he was assigned to the “Ghostriders” of VF-142 in June 1990 which was deployed to the Mediterranean at the time. He completed a deployment to the Mediterranean in support of Operation Desert Shield, and a deployment to the Persian Gulf in support of Operation Desert Storm.

Commander Morey reported to VF-45 at NAS Key West, Florida, as an Adversary Pilot in June 1993. Flying the T/A-4J, A-4E,F-5E/F, F-16N and F/A-18A, he participated in 16 Strike Fighter Air Combat Maneuvering Readiness Programs (SFARP) training fleet F/A-18 pilots in basic fighter maneuvering and air-to-air weapons employment. He was the section tactics and fighter mission’s instructor, and also served on the Training Standardization Board. He also served as the squadron’s Administrative Officer and Contracting Officers Representative (COR) overseeing contract aircraft maintenance. When VF-45 disestablished in March 1996, Commander Morey was selected as an Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer (AEDO) and reported to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, where he earned his M.S. degree in Aerospace Engineering.

He attended the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland, and was a distinguished graduate of class 115 in the summer of 1999. Commander Morey was then assigned to Naval Strike Aircraft Test Squadron (Currently Air Test and Evaluation Squadron TWO THREE) where he worked with the F/A-18 E/F Integrated Test Team (ITT) for the Super Hornet’s follow on test and evaluation phase. He was the project officer/test pilot for departure/spin, flutter, loads, carrier suitability, environmental control system (ECS), and fuel system testing for the E/F. He was also actively involved with the F-14 project team flying envelope expansion flight tests for the Digital Flight Control System (DFCS); Mode 1 certification for DFCS configured F-14s, and completed initial weapons separation testing for F-14 JDAM.

Commander Morey next served as the Tomahawk Test Director within PEO(W) at Patuxent River, Maryland, from October 2001 to December 2003. Commander Morey and his team successfully conducted 27 developmental and operational Tomahawk flight tests, demonstrating a record setting list of firsts and new capabilities including the first flight of Tactical Tomahawk, first launch of a Tomahawk from an Ohio class submarine, first flight of a Tactical Tomahawk Penetrator Variant, first use of the launch platform mission planning capability, first demonstration of the Tomahawk Strike Network, first use of sub terminal TERCOM maps, and the first use of embedded GPS TSPI. In March 2004, Commander Morey reported to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron THREE ONE (VX-31) as the Chief Test Pilot. In September of 2005, Commander Morey assumed command of VX-31.

Commander Morey assumed his current duties as the Military Director of NAVAIR’s Weapons and Energetics Department in March of 2007.

Commander Morey has over 2,900 hours of flight time in 29 different aircraft. His personal awards include two Navy Meritorious Service Medals, two Navy/Marine Corps Commendation Medals, and two Navy/Marine Corps Achievement Medals. He is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) and is currently serving on the Board of Directors as the Legal Officer, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) where he serves on the Flight Test Technical Committee.

Commander Morey’s SETP strategic vision is to bolster section activities and international membership to ensure a more homogeneous ociety from a section activity and international membership perspective. This year, the board of directors approved distribution of funds to sections to eliminate some of the financial burden for sections to hold valuable technical briefs and social events. There have been many outstanding section activities throughout the years across the country and abroad. There may even be some great ideas from years past that the newer members never participated in (we should ask some of the fellows for their most memorable section events). We should also reach out to areas where sections do not currently exist.

Commander Morey is married to the former Christy Wodrich of Houston, Texas. They have two daughters, Merissa and Camryn, and currently reside onboard Naval Air Weapons Station, China Lake, California.