EOY Dinner Wrap-up

We have put together a page of about sixty pictures that were taken before, during, and after the dinner. Go ahead and view it here.

YPSE Conference 2010

The Region I Young Professional, Student, and Education Conference 2010 will be taking place on October 29 and 30; more information to come.

AIAA Mid-Atlantic Section Annual Awards Dinner

AIAA Mid-Atlantic Section

presents

The South African Space Program

11-m South African Large Telescope	Square Kilometre Array

DATE:

Thursday, April 22, 2010

TIME:

6:30 to 7:30 pm (light refreshments at 6:00)

LOCATION:

JHU/APL Parson's Auditorium

South Africa maintains a space heritage infrastructure, including a coastal space launch range with telemetry capabilities, satellite testing and integration facilities, plus modest aerospace and software industrial sectors. The rocketry and astronautics projects began in 1947 and continue today. Since developing countries have severe resource constraints, South Africa has negotiated with Algeria, Kenya, and Nigeria, the African Resource Management constellation, to pool imagery and other remote sensing data from all their microsats. In developing countries, Astronautics and Astronomy usually need to be conceptualized together politically, as space policies and programs. This talk touches on a few of the challenges in building the cutting-edge Southern African Large Telescope, and the Square Kilometre Array.

Speaker:

Mr. Keith Gottschalk

Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence 2009-201
Political Science Department, Oakland University Rochester MI

Keith Gottschalk, formerly head of the Political Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa, taught the first course in Africa on Space Policy during the 1980s. He served on the policy committee of the Space Affairs Council of South Africa in 2007 and 2008, and was the chair of the Cape Centre of the Astronomical Society of Southern Africa from 2005 to 2006.

See http://www.jhuapl.edu/newscenter/visitor/ for directions.
Please RSVP to Robin Vaughan at secretary@aiaa-baltimore.org or 443-778-5006 no later than April 20, 2010
http://www.aiaa-baltimore.org/

Council Meeting

AIAA Mid-Atlantic members welcome to attend! Thursday, April 15, 2010, at 6:30 pm. The meeting will be held in the rear of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab cafeteria. See the JHU APL site for directions. The cafeteria is in Building 1 of the Main Campus, and is not inside a Restricted area.

AIAA Mid-Atlantic Section

presents

Inventing the Joint Strike Fighter

DATE:

Thursday, March 18, 2010

TIME:

7:00 - 8:30 pm (light refreshments at 6:30)

LOCATION:

JHU/APL Parson's Auditorium

A team led by Lockheed Martin won the contract to develop the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a single airplane that will be built in three different variants. The Air Force variant is a supersonic strike fighter designed to operate from conventional runways. The Navy variant will launch and recover from aircraft carriers, while the Marine Corps variant will make vertical takeoffs and landings. The key to developing this family of aircraft is a new dual cycle propulsion system, which can be switched from a turbofan cycle to a turboshaft cycle to increase thrust for vertical takeoff and landing. This propulsion system enabled the X-35 to become the first aircraft in history to fly at supersonic speeds, hover, and land vertically. The development team won the Collier Trophy that recognizes "the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America demonstrated during the preceding year" for this accomplishment. This presentation will describe the Joint Strike Fighter Competition and the development of this innovative engine, showing how a novel idea can grow into a new aircraft program.

DISTINGUISHED LECTURER:

Dr. Paul Bevilaqua

Technical/Research Director, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company

Dr. Paul Bevilaqua has spent much of his career developing Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft. He joined Lockheed Martin as Chief Aeronautical Scientist of the Lockheed Advanced Aeronautics Company, and became Chief Engineer of Advanced Development Projects in the Lockheed Martin Skunk Works, playing a leading role in creating the Joint Strike Fighter Program. He invented the Lift Fan Propulsion System that made it possible to build a stealthy, supersonic VTOL aircraft. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, he was Manager of Advanced Programs at Rockwell International's Navy aircraft plant. He began his career as a Captain in the US Air Force and was Deputy Director of the Energy Conversion Laboratory at Wright Patterson Air Force Base. He has a BS in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Notre Dame, and MS and PhD degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the recipient of a USAF Scientific Achievement Award, AIAA and SAE Aircraft Design Awards, AIAA and AHS VSTOL Awards, and Lockheed Martin AeroStar and Nova Awards.

See http://www.jhuapl.edu/aboutapl/visitor/default.asp for directions.
Please RSVP to Robin Vaughan at secretary@aiaa-baltimore.org or 443-778-5006 no later than March 15*, 2010
*Foreign nationals please RSVP no later than March 10, 2010.]
http://www.aiaa-baltimore.org/

Young Professional, Student and Education Conference

The YPSE-09 Conference was held November 6th and 7th, 2009. Please go to the conference website to find a list of Student Winners in the Graduate and undergraduate categories. Additional information about the conference, including photos of the event, will be added in the coming days. Please check the site often for updates. And thanks to all of you who participated in YPSE-09!

Meetings

Meetings are held monthly and are open to the public. All those interested are encouraged to attend. By participating in your section, you'll be informed of current local news and developments in both the profession and the industry. Be a leader in your local aerospace community!

Meeting venues include:

• US Naval Academy
• Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

Please join us!