The Future of Flight Foundation presents Astronaut Mike Foreman speaking on his experiences aboard the International Space Station. Mike has been with NASA for 15 years, and his space flight mission experience includes:

• 16 days and 250 orbits in 2008 on STS-123, involving a night launch, a night landing and three spacewalks totaling 19½ EVA, and
• 11 days and 171 orbits in 2009 on STS-129, delivering 30,000 pounds of payload to the station, and performing two spacewalks totaling almost 13 hours EVA

He’s also had technical duties in the Astronaut Office Space Station Branch, representing the Astronaut Office on training issues, served as liaison between the Johnson Space Center and the Kennedy Space Center, and as deputy of the Space Shuttle Branch. He is currently assigned to the Exploration Branch of the Astronaut Office, working on the Commercial Crew Development Program.

The presentation is at the Future of Flight Aviation Center, 8415 Paine Field Blvd. in Mukilteo, 1:00pm – 1:45pm June 15th, and is free to the public.

For a poster flyer on the event, click here. And check out the Future of Flight Foundation at their website, http://www.futureofflightfoundation.org/.

Ambition | Inspiration | Accomplishment | Attitude

Pacific Northwest AIAA 7th Annual Technical Symposium
Saturday November 2, 2013 | Raisbeck Aviation High School

CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS!

Help with planning and executing the symposium. Time commitment is 1-2 hours a week and may increase to 2-3 hours a week as the event date nears. Benefits include: symposium admission, working with individuals from different companies, schools, universities and organizations with various leadership experience. Want to join the planning committee? Have questions? Contact us by emailing symposium@pnwaiaa.org

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS!

The Pacific Northwest Section  invites you to participate by presenting your research in aerospace and aeronautics subjects. Presentations are 20 minutes in length with an additional 5 minutes for questions from the audience. Abstract submissions will be accepted electronically through the Puget Sound AIAA Section e-mail at symposium@pnwaiaa.org. Abstract submissions are open at this time and will be accepted through October 15, 2013. The electronic submission process is as follows:

1. Use the subject “2013 Technical Symposium Abstract Submission” in the subject line of the e-mail. If this is an update to a previous submission, please specify in both the subject line and the body of the e-mail.
2. The abstract should be attached to the e-mail in either a .pdf, .doc, or .docx format.
3. Submissions should include the abstract and a short bio for the presenting author. Please also identify all co-authors.

Caution to all potential presenters: Technology transfer and ITAR government reviews are the responsibility of the presenter. Please plan accordingly. Please contact the presentation selection committee, at symposium@pnwaiaa.org for additional comments/questions.

EARLY REGISTRATION!

Register early to obtain early registration prices! Price increases after Saturday August 31, 2013. Click here to register.

Keynote Speaker: Sandy Magnus, retired Astronaut and Executive Director of AIAA

Click here for a look back at the 2012 and 2011 Symposia agendas.

The Future of Aerospace Innovation in Washington

The Joint Center for Aerospace Research Technology Innovation (JCATI) will hold its inaugural symposium on June 24, 2013 from 8am to 5pm in Seattle, on the campus of University of Washington. The symposium will include an industry panel discussing the grand challenges in aerospace and the role of innovation. Moderated by Roger Myers of Aerojet, the panel will include industry leaders representing the commercial airplanes, space, UAV, and NextGen/big data sectors of the industry. A university panel will host deans from the University of Washington and Washington State University as well as Earll Murman, the MIT Ford Professor of Engineering Emeritus. For more information and to register please visit http://www.engr.washington.edu/jcati/symposium.html.

JCATI is a joint research center between UW and WSU and is working to promote industry and university collaboration through jointly funded research and other activities.

And for a flyer on the event, click here (PDF viewer required).

The date is almost here!! We have an incredible line-up this year you will not want to miss! Bring a friend, student or family member to enjoy a day full of airplanes, old friends and learning. This is not only a great way to increase your own knowledge but is a great opportunity to share what Flight Test is all about with others. In addition, the first 20 students to register are half price! Don’t let this one fly by without you!

CHECK IN: Attendee check-in and continental breakfast will be from 7:30am to 8:00am. The registration fee is $50 and includes a continental breakfast, breaks, the luncheon, and a reception at the conclusion of the symposium.

• Little Bird Unmanned Shipboard Testing – Roger Hehr, Boeing Helicopters
• Militarization of the P-8I –Dobbs/Howell, Boeing Military Derivatives
• Future of Stall Testing on Large Transports – Chaney/ Moorehead, Boeing & Airbus
• Modern Design & Flight Testing of the Wright Flyer – “Santa” Ohman
• Eco Demonstrator – Mike Carriker, Boeing Commercial Airplanes
• Testing the Trent 1000 on the Rolls-Royce Flying Testbed – Mark Lewis, Rolls Royce
• Dash 80 Firsts – Whites/Wygle/Taylor/Cashman, Moderater Mike Carriker, Boeing
• Developing Producing Aircraft for the LSA & Part 23 Worlds – Eric Leaver, Cub Crafters
• Flight Testing the King Air 250 – Human/Young, AeroTEC

LUNCHEON – The luncheon will be held at 12:00pm.

RECEPTION: A reception will be held in the Barnstormer Lounge at the conclusion of the symposium. This event is included in the registration fee. For those not registered for the symposium, tickets can be purchased for $15.00 per person.

DRESS: Business casual

You do not need to be a member to attend!! – just love airplanes

Find out more  at http://www.setp.org/northwest/3rd-annual-northwest-symposium.html

The next PNW AIAA Section technical dinner takes off on a new trajectory: can we predict the future? Major events? The types of events the CIA and Homeland Security would like to predict? Even in our own working lives, we’re asked to predict the future in one way or another every day. Are there better ways to do it?

We’ll tackle some of these questions at our next technical dinner on Wednesday, May 8th at the University of Washington, in a joint meeting with the UW AIAA Student Section.

Our guest presenter is Dr. Dirk Warnaar, a Principal Investigator at Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) in Raleigh, NC. ARA is a scientific research and engineering company focused on critical national problems in national security, infrastructure, energy, environment and health. Dr. Warnaar leads ARA’s Aggregative Contingent Estimation System (ACES) project, funded by the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). IARPA, like DARPA, its Pentagon counterpart, funds far-out research ideas, but with a focus on potential long-term applications for intelligence and national security. IARPA’s interest stems from failures to forecast some (possibly predictable?) world events, from the fall of the Soviet Union to the Arab Spring to the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate support for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Their Aggregative Contingent Estimation (ACE) project is looking at whether crowdsourcing can result in more accurate forecasts about future events than traditional forms of intelligence estimation.

Early findings are intriguing: ARA’s first year results with ACES show competitively game-structured crowdsourced forecasts being 25% more accurate than averaging individuals’ forecasts. The plan is to double that accuracy advantage to 50% over the next year.

Dr Warnaar was interviewed by the BBC on the “James Bond” aspects of the investigation, which you can read up on as your advance homework for the technical dinner, at “US intelligence agencies hope the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ can help them predict the future.” You can also become a volunteer forecaster at http://www.forecastingace.com or www.globalcrowd.com.

Can these emerging techniques apply to other areas, including aerospace, where we’re tasked with predicting the future? Make a plan for the future yourself, to attend the May 8th technical dinner, and sign up by going to the signup page.

There are open judge slots for the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Central Washington Regional March 21st-23rd in Ellensburg.

The judges dinner will be on Thursday, March 21 at 6:30 PM and the competition runs Friday and Saturday as usual. We have 50 teams registered. If you are interested and willing to volunteer, please sign up in the Volunteer Management System at www.usfirst.org/vims and select the Central Washington Regional.

For more on FIRST, visit http://www.usfirst.org/ and if you have questions, contact Susan Martucci, Volunteer Coordinator for Washington FIRST Robotics.