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GoFly Prize - $2,000,000 Challenge
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- Created: 27 September 2017 27 September 2017
- Last Updated: 11 October 2017 11 October 2017
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Are you up for the challenge?
GoFly has announced $2,000,000 in prizes for competitors who join us in reimagining flight to create a personal flying machine that is useful, safe, and thrilling. Our goal is to foster the development of a safe, quiet, ultra-compact, near-VTOL personal flying device capable of flying 20 miles while carrying a single person.
Recent advances in propulsion, energy, light-weight materials, and control and stability systems have combined to produce a moment of achievable innovation. Technological and scientific advances have resulted in a time when our most audacious dream—the dream of pure human flight—is now achievable.
In partnership with GoFly, SETP is calling on the world’s greatest thinkers, designers, engineers, and builders to challenge themselves and change the future. Registration for the competition is now open and all details are available here. There are also opportunities to become an official GoFly Mentor and work directly with the teams in your area of expertise — details are available here. You can also follow along for competition updates at goflyprize.com or on Twitter and Facebook.
Robert Behler (F) DoD Operational Test & Evaluation Director Nominee
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- Created: 07 September 2017 07 September 2017
- Last Updated: 13 November 2017 13 November 2017
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Click HERE to read the full article on Robert Behler's confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Royal Aeronautical Society - National Aerospace Library Sound Archive
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- Created: 24 July 2017 24 July 2017
- Last Updated: 26 July 2017 26 July 2017
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For your information the National Aerospace Library is developing an aeronautical sound archive.
The latest batch of extended interviews with test pilots and other leading aviation personalites from the National Aerospace Library's archives has just been released via the Royal Aeronautical Society's SoundCloud site (just click on the arrow button to 'Play')
In two separate interviews Harald Penrose recalls numerous experiences from the days of his test flying career with Westland including the high altitude flying in the Houston-Westland PV.3 in preparation for the 1933 first flight over Mount Everest, the tailless Westland Pterodactyl series designed by Captain G T. R. Hill, the Westland P7 / PV.7 and working with W. E. W. ‘Teddy’ Petter on the development of the Westland Whirlwind, Welkin and Wyvern programmes and the English Electric Canberra.
In a complementary interview Penrose discusses some of the great figures he met during his career in the aircraft industry, including T. O. M. ‘Tommy’ Sopwith, Barnes Wallis and Sydney Camm, Vickers test pilots E. R. C. ‘Tiny’ Scholefield and Joseph ‘Mutt’ Summers and their Chief Designer Rex Pierson, before going on to recall his experiences of working with the test pilot Jeffrey Quill when Westland built Supermarine Seafires and he flew the prototype Supermarine Spitfire at Martlesham in 1936.
A quick link to the Rodney Giesler interviews available so far (including interviews with Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, Chuck Yeager, Scott Crossfield, Handel Davies, Al White, Bill Humble, Pete Knight, Dick Johnson, Philip Lucas, Peter Bugge and Col. Emil ‘Ted’ Sturmthal ) is
https://soundcloud.com/aerosociety-podcast/sets
Further interviews with Brian Trubshaw, John Cunningham, John Morton and D. P. Davies will be released later this year.
In addition to the Rodney Giesler interviews, the National Aerospace Library holds a historically significant collection of past Royal Aeronautical Society lectures, interviews and other recordings (probably over 100 separate recordings dating back to the 1940s, which are in many cases the only record which the Society has of a particular speech or lecture)
These recordings (from the original gramophone records, magnetic reel recordings, cassette tapes) have now been digitalised - a real 'Who's Who' of aviation personalities and historical subjects including the voices of Sir Frederick Handley Page, Igor Sikorsky, Sir Barnes Wallis, Theodore von Karman and many other great names - and the 'highlights' from this collection will subsequently be released via the Society's SoundCloud site over the next 18 months or so:-
As a 'taster' of what is to follow two of these historic recordings are already available - the eminent early aviation historian Charles Gibbs-Smith discussing the work of the 'Father of Aeronautics' Sir George Cayley:-
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/podcast-sir-george-cayley
and Peter Twiss and others describing the development of the Fairey Delta 2 and the world air speed record of 1,132 mph it achieved in 1956:-
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/podcast-fairey-delta-lecture
The intention of this project is to create a historically significant oral history archive which makes the voices of the past (pilots, engineers, scientists etc.) 'alive' once more to inspire and inform current and future generations and the sound archive has attracted a number of favourable comments / interest via social media.
Please note that if these recordings or extracts from these recordings are to be reproduced in any way (book, journal article, web-site etc.), acknowledgement should be made to the ‘Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)’ as being the source of the original.
Please feel welcome to forward details of these historic aviation recordings to anyone who may be interested.
The National Aerospace Library ( www.aerosociety.com/nal ) at Farnborough - which is open normally Tuesday-Friday 10am-4pm - welcomes receiving enquiries from anyone around the world by e-mail (e-mail:- This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ), phone, letter and personal visit.
Operated and managed by the Royal Aeronautical Society - the oldest aeronautical society in the world - it incorporates on the world's major collections recording the development of aviation and aerospace around the world from Man's earliest explorations of aerial travel by balloon through to space probes to the distant planets.
The National Aerospace Library's web-site pages have recently been complete redesigned to reflect the wide variety of the Library's holdings and how the collection is currently used and added to:-
http://aerosociety.com/About-Us/nal
Brian Riddle
Chief Librarian
National Aerospace Library
T: +44 (0)1252 701060
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W: www.aerosociety.com/nal
Royal Aeronautical Society - National Aerospace Library Sound Archive (Jeffrey Quill and John Cunningham Interviews)
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The latest batch of extended interviews with test pilots and other leading aviation personalities from the National Aerospace Library's archives has just been released via the Royal Aeronautical Society's SoundCloud site (just click on the arrow button to 'Play')
In a separate interview and lecture the famous Vickers-Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill describes the evolution of the Spitfire and its Rolls-Royce Merlin engine in all their marks and his later career being responsible for the marketing the SEPECAT Jaguar and MRCA Tornado.
In a separate interview John ‘Cats-Eyes’ Cunningham HonFRAeS - de Havilland’s Chief Test Pilot - recounts highlights from his postwar career, including stories of flying the experimental DH.110 during a total electrical failure, the DH.108 following the death of Geoffrey de Havilland Jnr and the DH.106 Comet 1. and many of the aeroplanes that were designed and built at Hatfield, including the Hawker Siddeley Trident, Comet and DH.108.
A quick link to the interviews available so far (including interviews with Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, Chuck Yeager, Scott Crossfield, Handel Davies, Al White, Bill Humble, Pete Knight, Dick Johnson, Philip Lucas, Peter Bugge, Col. Emil ‘Ted’ Sturmthal, Harald Penrose, John Morton and D. P. Davies) is :-
https://soundcloud.com/aerosociety-podcast/sets
In addition to these interviews, the National Aerospace Library holds a historically significant collection of past Royal Aeronautical Society lectures, interviews and other recordings (probably over 100 separate recordings dating back to the 1940s, which are in many cases the only record which the Society has of a particular speech or lecture)
These recordings (from the original gramophone records, magnetic reel recordings, cassette tapes) have now been digitalised - a real 'Who's Who' of aviation personalities and historical subjects including the voices of Sir Frederick Handley Page, Igor Sikorsky, Sir Barnes Wallis, Theodore von Karman and many other great names - and the 'highlights' from this collection will subsequently be released via the Society's SoundCloud site over the next 18 months or so:-
As a 'taster' of what is soon to follow two of these historic recordings are already available - the eminent early aviation historian Charles Gibbs-Smith discussing the work of the 'Father of Aeronautics' Sir George Cayley:-
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/podcast-sir-george-cayley
and Peter Twiss and others describing the development of the Fairey Delta 2 and the world air speed record of 1,132 mph it achieved in 1956:-
https://www.aerosociety.com/news/podcast-fairey-delta-lecture
The intention of this project is to create a historically significant oral history archive which makes the voices of the past (pilots, engineers, scientists etc.) 'alive' once more to inspire and inform current and future generations and the sound archive has attracted a number of favourable comments / interest via social media.
Please note that if these recordings or extracts from these recordings are to be reproduced in any way (book, journal article, web-site etc.), acknowledgement should be made to the ‘Royal Aeronautical Society (National Aerospace Library)’ as being the source of the original.
Please feel welcome to forward details of these historic aviation recordings to anyone who may be interested.
Brian Riddle
Chief Librarian
National Aerospace Library
T: +44 (0)1252 701060
E: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
W: www.aerosociety.com/nal
Search the Library catalogue http://aerosociety.com/About-Us/nal
View wonderful images www.aerosociety.com/printsandposters
Listen to the Voices of Aviation Greats www.aerosociety.com/podcast
Explore Milestones of Early Aviation http://aerosocietyheritage.com
Read about our Special Collections http://www.aerosociety.com/About-Us/nal/speccollections
Hear about them http://aviation-xtended.co.uk/ep-02-a400-grizzly-secret-airfields-and-the-national-aerospace-library/#more-113
Visit the National Aerospace Library http://www.aerosociety.com/About-Us/nal/faqs
61st Annual S&B Award Winners and 2017 Fellow Class
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Herman R. Salmon Technical Publications Award
(Sponsored by Symbolic Displays)
For the Best Technical Paper published in
Cockpit during the Past Year
“Compatibility Flight Testing in 30 Year Old Aircraft - A Case Study on Ineffective Lesson Sharing”
Lt Col Tucker Hamilton, USAF (M)
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Friend of the Society Recognition
Heidi Biermeier
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Ray E. Tenhoff Award
(Sponsored by Aerospace Services International)
For the Most Outstanding Paper Presented
at the SETP Symposium
“T-38 Compressor Stall Mitigation - Propulsion Flight Test”
Lt Col Matt Russell, USAF (M)
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η Eta Award
(Sponsored by Lockheed Martin)
For the Paper Which Best Exhibits Advancements
in Flight Testing Efficiency and Effectiveness Presented
at the SETP Symposium
“XC-2 Development Overview: A Novel Test Technique With SCAS”
Maj Haruhiko Naganawa, JASDF
Maj Naoki Morimoto, JASDF
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Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award
(Sponsored by Gentex Corporation)
Mark Skoog, NASA Armstong Flight Research Center
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J. H. Doolittle Award
(Sponsored by The Boeing Company)
For Excellence in the Technical Management or Engineering Aspects of Aerospace Technology
William Gray (F), USAF Test Pilot School
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Iven C. Kincheloe Award
(Sponsored by Lockheed Martin)
In Recognition of Outstanding Professional Accomplishment in the Conduct of Flight Testing During the Past Year
Chuck Ellis (AF), Bombardier Flight Test Center
Bombardier C Series
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2017 Fellows
Rudolf Engeler
Todd Ericson
Kent Ewing
William Gray
Robert Hood
Richard Ljungberg
Andrew McDicken
C. Wayne Staley
Michael Wallace
2017 Honorary Fellow
Jean-Marie Saget
