2024 - Seattle, WA

Presentations

Tuesday October 15, 2024

Morning Session

• Opening Keynote - MagniX
  
• "Smoke Smoke Smoke": Lessons Learned from Alice V0 (Best Presentation - 1st Place)
• Lessons Learned during Integration of Ejection Seat in eVTOL Prototype
• Using Augmented Reality for PIO Testing
• Challenges of Unimproved Runway Testing
• Brand A, Brand B: Sharing the Flight Test Experience

Afternoon Session

• Supersonic Envelope Expansion of an External Store on a Mirage F1
• F-35 Supersonic Flight Test Efficiency Using Atmospheric Modeling and Simulation
• Applying Leonardo da Vinci's Principles to Flight Test
• Flight Testing of the Fiber Optic Sensing System on a High Performance Jet
• Detecting In-Flight Physiological Insults in High-Performance Jets
• A Unified Approach to Post-Test Analysis

Wednesday October 16, 2024

Morning Session

• New Capabilities for IPEV Flight Test Simulator
• Exploring the Visual THA (Best Presentation - 2nd Place)
  
• OPTIMUS: Revolutionizing Flight Test Management for the Golden Age of Turkish Aviation
• An alternative approach for determining the Position Error Corrections (PEC) in static pressure measurement at altitude
• Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Primer for Flight Test
• Evaluation of Microsoft Hololens 2 In The Airborne Environment

Lunchtime Presentation

• A Bad Day at the Racecourse

Afternoon Session

• "Release, Release, Release": The Challenges and Successes of Virgin Orbit's Final Mission (Best Presentation - 3rd Place)
• Lessons Learned from the US Air Force's First Group 5 UAV Flown by Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents (Best Paper Award)
• The Role of Flight Testing In Digital Transformation
• VTOL Aircraft Taxonomy and Lexicon
• A Discussion on the Integrated Space Test Lexicon

Thursday October 17, 2024

Morning Session

• Test Team Crew Resource Management for Stratolaunch's First Talon-A Powered Flight
  
• Answering Unexpected Questions with Flight Test
  
• Real-Time Flight Test Data Analysis On Ip-Networked Aircraft
  
• The Flight Test Engineer's Dichotomy: Thinking Like a Nerd, Talking Like a Boss
  
• Predicting Optimal Helicopter Autorotative Landing Parameters Using Machine Learning
  
• Necessity-Driven Evolution of Distributed and Remote Flight Test Concepts of Operations (CONOPS)
  

Afternoon Session

• Human Factors Evaluation of Flight Test Displays
  
• A Flight Tester's Journey with STPA
  
• Panel Discussion: This is Why We Test
  
• State of the Society
  

Awards

Director's Award

• Doug Bell
  
• Kaylan Raman
  

James S. McDonnell Award

• HEAVEN Flight Test Team

Kelly Johnson Award

• Carla Jackson

SFTE Fellows

• Jim Fawcett
• David Roberts
  
• Dr. Panos Vitsas
  

Thank You to Our Generous Sponsors

Featuring Our Distinguished Exhibitors

The Symposium Committee

• Darren McDonald (Chairman)
  • Noah Aaron
    
  • Dan Hrehov
    
  • Brian Jones
    
  • Stephan Roberts
    
  • Jordan Stringfield
    
  • Kevin Welch
    
  • Dulnath "Dunes" Wijayratne

The 2024 SFTE Symposium was proudly hosted by the Seattle Chapter