Meet Virgin Galactic Astronaut Kelly Latimer & NASA Astronaut Bob "Farmer" Hines at SWAS 28 March at UTA!
Kelly has commanded numerous test and operational flights to the edge of space in the Virgin Galactic Unity SpaceShipTwo. As Society of Experimental Test Pilots (SETP) President, Kelly will be chairing the morning session. Register today to hear & meet exceptional test pilots, then stay for lunch for NASA Astronaut Bob “Farmer” Hines’ keynote address, including the Artemis program that plans to take humans back to the moon.
Southwest Aerospace Symposium
Saturday, 28 March 2026
UT Arlington
SEIR Engineering Bldg., Room 294
0800-1700 hrs.
Late Registration Open until 23 March 9am!
$15 Full-time Student members (AIAA, VFS, SFTE)|
$20 Full-time Student nonmembers
$50 AIAA, SETP, VFS, SFTE Members
$60 Non-Members
Includes sessions, breaks, & luncheon
Southwest Aerospace Symposium - SETP Online Registration
Keynote
Bob “Farmer” Hines (Colonel, U.S. Air Force), NASA Astronaut
NASA’s Manned Spaceflight Programs
Bob Hines was selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class. He reported to the Astronaut Office in August 2017. He has served more than 23 years in the United State Air Force (USAF) as an instructor pilot, fighter pilot, and a test pilot. Before his selection in 2017, he was serving as a Research Pilot at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. He has accumulated more than 4,000 hours of flight time in 50 different types of aircraft and has flown 76 combat missions in 3 different aircraft types while supporting contingency operations around the world. Hines served as the pilot on NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission to the International Space Station, which concluded on Oct. 14, 2022. The mission was the first spaceflight for Hines. He has logged 170 days in space, overseeing the arrival of crew and cargo, maintaining the space station, and conducting science experiments of various disciplines.
Schedule
0800 - Check in, Coffee & Refreshments
Morning Session
Chair - Kelly Latimer (F), USAF/NASA/VG Retired, SETP President
0830 Full Scale Stop-fold System Transition Demonstration on a High-Speed Test Track, Dr. Troy Schank, Bell
0900 Air Tractor 1002, Jim Acree (AF)
0930 UT Dallas AIAA Project Teams, Mi Vo & Mikail Naqib, UTD AIAA Student Chapter President & VP
0945 Coffee Break
1015 FAA-Sponsored Flight Test Findings on HQTE for VTOL Aircraft, Marty Shubert (F), Tiltrotor Flight Test Consulting
1045 High-Altitude Airport Operations (HAAO) certification campaign for the Global 6500 aircraft, Brian Nyaberim
1115 - Before Lindbergh - Earlier Atlantic crossings, Paul Park, UTA, General Dynamics/Lockheed Martin (Ret), AIAA Fellow
1145 CIRP: Mental Health Support for Flight Testers, James Sergeant F
1200 Luncheon & Keynote
Bob “Farmer” Hines (Colonel, U.S. Air Force) NASA Astronaut
Afternoon Session
Chair - Ryan “Cujo” Blake (AF), Lockheed Martin
1330 The Promise of STOL: Upper Surface Blowing Lessons Learned, Erasmo Pinero, Bell / Lockheed Martin (Ret.)
1400 Initial MV-75 Handling Qualities Evaluation in Vertical Motion Simulator, Ernie McGuinness (M) and Jackson Murphy, Bell
1430 UT Arlington AIAA & Aero Mavs
1445 Coffee Break
1515 Aerodynamics Research in North Texas at the Dawn of CFD, Dr. Dennis Finley, Lockheed Martin (retired)
1545 Strategies for Integrating Complex Aircraft Software Systems: Insights from Software Engineers at Lockheed Martin, Jennifer Klenka & Stephanie Figueroa, Lockheed Martin
1615 Risky Business: These are the Risks you are Looking For, David Hoey SM , 586th Flight Test Squadron, NM
1645 Concluding Remarks
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