44th European Symposium Registration and Information

Kempinski Bristol
Berlin, Germany
23-27 May 2012

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Technical session – Berlin 2012

24.5

0900 – 0915       Introduction

Session 1 – Session Chairman: LtCol Robert "Robbs" Hierl (F), WTD-61

0915 – 0945       Billie Flynn (F) and Jeff Harris, Lockheed Martin "F-35 Transonic Roll-Off"

0945 – 1015       Jeff Trang (AF) and Denis Hamel, American Eurocopter "The US Army and the EC-145 – Transition from the Light Utility Helicopter (LUH) to the Armed Aerial Scout (AAS)"

1015 – 1045       Coffee break

1045 – 1115       Karl-Heinz Mai (M), Airbus "A400M – Flight Test Status Update"

1115 - 1145        LtCol Apostolos Doukellis (M), HAF "EMB – 145 AEW&C Range and Endurance Test and Analysis"

1145 – 1215       Marc Frattini (AM), Cassidian "Barracuda UAV – Flight Test Highlights"

1215 – 1330       Lunch

Session 2 – Session Chairman – Karl-Heinz Mai (M), Airbus

1330 – 1400       Chris Taylor (M), CAA UK "So how does an AutoGyro fly"

1400 – 1430       Didier Poisson (AF), CEV and LtCol Thomas Wilhelm (M), GAF "A400M Certification Strategy"

1430 – 1500       Johan Sjöstrand (M) and Christer Berglund, Saab "Test and Development of a new Warning System to low G-Suit Pressure in the JAS 39 Gripen"

1500 – 1530       Coffee break

1530 – 1600       Bernhard Zinser, Technical Pilot A320 Family, Lufthansa "eTaxi – Technical Feasibility Demonstration of Electric Motor Units installed in the Main Gear on an In-Service A320"

1600 – 1630       Kevin Emerson, ETPS "Procurement and Instrumentation of a Helicopter suitable for TP and FTE Training at ETPS"

1630 – 1700       CDR Eric Buus (M), USN and LT Chris Tabert (M), USN "Catapulting the F-35C"

0900 – 0910       Introduction

0910 – 0940       Eric Brown (HF) "Post War Interviews with German Aircraft Designers and Test Pilots"

0940 – 1010       CDR Robert A. Johnson, USN (retired) (M) "Carrier and Aircraft Launch and Recovery Systems, Circa 1945 – 2015"

1010 – 1040       Steve Roberts, Martin-Baker "Lessons learned from 63 Years of live Ejections"

1040 – 1115       Coffee break

1115 – 1145       Keith Hartley (M), Test Flying Academy of South Africa "Mitigating the unquantifiable Risk "

1145 – 1215       Markus Scherdel (M), Solarimpulse "Testing the Solarimpulse S10, the first Energy Neutral Solar Airplane"

1215 – 1245       Troy Asher (M), NASA Dryden "SOFIA – The Airborne Telescope"