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SETP Fellow, Chris Taylor, has published the following book titled “Test Pilot: An Extraordinary Career Testing Civil Aircraft”. You can purchase this by clicking HERE. Read more

First Autonomous Black Hawk Helicopter F…

The historic flight marks the first time that a UH-60 Black Hawk has flown autonomously. Benjamin Williamson (M) was the Lead Test Pilot for the flight. Read Lockheed Martin's release HERE. Read DARPA's... Read more

Scholarship for the USAF ROTC Detachment…

Jeff Burrows recently established a Scholarship for the USAF ROTC Detachment at the University of Missouri in honor of his father Irving Burrows (F), a past President of SETP (Bio... Read more

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    The Society of Experimental Test Pilots is proud to announce the Award Winners from the 65th Annual Symposium & Banquet and the 2020 / 2021 Fellow Class     Herman R. Salmon Technical Publications…

  • Check Presentation to The Flight T…

    On 23 October at the Gathering of Eagles event in Lancaster, CA, Art "Turbo" Tomassetti (F) and other past Presidents of SETP presented a check to The Flight Test Historical…

  • JB Brown (F) Named NTPS President

    National Test Pilot School (NTPS) Mojave, CA On behalf of the Board of Trustees, NTPS President & CEO, Dr. Allen L. (AL) Peterson is pleased to announce that Mr. James E…

  • NTPS 40th Anniversary!

    The National Test Pilot School (NTPS) is proud to announce our 40th Anniversary!! 29 April 2021 marked 40 years of NTPS providing flight test training to Test Pilots & FTEs…

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    The latest generation of the venerable F-15 fighter took flight on 2 February in St. Louis, with Boeing chief test pilot Matt Giese (AF) at the controls. The flight lasted…

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Martin-Baker Aircraft Company to Receive the 2019 Spirit of Flight Award

The National Aviation Hall of Fame’s 2019 Spirit of Flight Award to be Presented to

Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Limited 

DAYTON, OHIO – The Board of Trustees of the National Aviation Hall of Fame (NAHF) is pleased to announce that its coveted 2019 Spirit of Flight Award will be presented to Martin-Baker Aircraft Company Limited (MBA) during the 57th Annual Enshrinement Dinner & Ceremony to be held in Denver, Colorado at Wings Over The Rockies Air & Space Museum on September 28, 2019.

The Spirit of Flight Award qualifications include organizations that serve a special need of the nation and set high standards for excellence in the utilization of aerospace assets.   Click here to read more...

Air Force pilot flies HH-60W for first time

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AFNS) --

The 413th Flight Test Squadron successfully conducted the first Air Force-piloted flight of the HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter July 11. The test took place at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation Development Flight Center in West Palm Beach.

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The Wright Brothers and the Early Development of Aeronautics The Wright Brothers and the Early Development of Aeronautics (National Aerospace Library Sound Archive)

For your information sound recordings of three lectures by leading aviation historians Dr. Peter Jakab, Dr. Richard Hallion and Dr. John Ackroyd describing the achievements of the Wright Brothers and the early development of Aeronautics up to that time have just been added to the National Aerospace Library Sound Archive - a real 'Who's Who' of aviation personalities and historical subjects based on original recordings held in the Library's archives - and are now available to listen to via the Royal Aeronautical Society's SoundCloud web-site :-

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2019 Flight Test Safety Workshop - VideoCasts

The videocasts approved for public release from the 2019 Flight Test Safety Workshop held in Charleston, SC are now available to view.

http://flighttestsafety.org/2019-charleston-sc

Review the STPA Resources and Reference Guides from the Workshop HERE

Fellows Class of 2019

The Society of Experimental Test Pilots is pleased to announce the Fellows Class of 2019.  The Fellows’ presentation will be held during the 63rd Annual Symposium at the Banquet on Saturday, 28 September.  More information on the Annual Symposium can be found HERE.  We hope you can join us!

 Fellows Class of 2019

Thomas Archer
Craig Bomben
Roderick Cregier
John Croll
Paul Edwards
Robert Hover
Jake Howard
Thomas LeBeau
Scott Martin
Tore Reimers
James Richmond

IT FLIES Aircraft Design Competition for Students

On Saturday, 6 April 2019, the Great Lakes Section of Society of Experimental Test Pilots supported a University of Dayton hosted IT FLIES aircraft design competition for students using their engineering flight simulator.  SETP members Ed Conant, Frank Delsing, Brad Fairfax and Gary Konnert evaluated the handling qualities of the student designs in the Merlin engineering simulator.  Local SFTE members judged the associated presentation portion of the competition.  The volunteers helped support this exciting Science, Technology, Engineering and Math educational initiative and inspire budding aeronautical engineers.  This international contest was held at the University of Dayton (UD) campus' Kettering Labs building with contestants from not only the local university, but the University of Cincinnati, University of Manchester, England and University of South Wales, England,  as well.  Between student presentations the volunteers conducted a simulator flight evaluation of each team’s model .  The teams briefed the pilots on their aircraft’s operations and configurations.  Throughout the day approximately 8 simulator evaluations were accomplished.  The models ranged from clean sheet designs of a fire bomber to a solar powered motor glider to a business jet to training aircraft.  Each simulator flight evaluation lasted about 20 minutes.  Afterwards the Test Pilot provided a personal de-brief with the team on their model’s handling qualities.  This gave the students their first exposure to working in a flight test team environment.  The actual simulator evaluations and real time evaluator comments were observable by all the contestants through a visual/audio hook up into the presentation room.   The students were highly enthusiastic and motivated by the competition and chance to talk their design over with actual test pilots and engineers.  The winners this year were designs for a WWI Triplane from University of Dayton, a flying boat from the University of South Wales and the Galaxy general aviation aircraft from the University of Manchester.  This was the chapter’s ninth year supporting this competition and we always have a great time talking aviation and inspiring future engineers.

 

GL Gary w IT FLIES 2019 entries

Gary Konnert with Students of the IT FLIES Aircraft Design Competition 

 

GL Ed Award Presentation IT FLIES 2019

Ed Conant (right) with the Winning Students and SFTE Volunteers

SETP Members Featured in AIR & SPACE Magazine

F-35: What The Pilots Say

Firsthand accounts of flying the world's most advanced fighter.

https://www.airspacemag.com/military-aviation/f-35-faces-most-critical-test-180971734/

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