The Southwest Aerospace Symposium (SWAS) was held at UTA to encourage student participation and provide a quality venue at their new Engineering bldg. Presentations tended to be flight test oriented (but not all) since the Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE) and Society of Experimental Test Plots (SETP) were co-sponsors along with corporate sponsors Bell, the International Test Pilots School (ITPS) from Canada and Avian. The program was as follows:
Morning Sesson ChairDon Grove (AF), Bell0900 - Expected Cockpit Advancements for the Next DecadeDr. Mike Skaff, Lockheed Martin PVI0930 - The Science of RF Engineering and Stealth TechnologyKevin Debord, UT Dallas AIAA1000 - UT Dallas AIAA Project Teams1015 - Coffee Break, Sponsored by International Test Pilots School 1045 - How the Engineer of the future will leverage AI/ML, Simulation, and High-Performance Computing to make the next generation of flying vehiclesBlaise Cole, Principal Advisor for Aerospace & Defense, Altair 1115 - Multiphysics Digital Twin: Transformative Applications in Rocketry Design and AnalysisAlexander Brandt, SMU ME PhD student, AIAA1145 - UT Arlington Aero Mavs 1200 – Luncheon (Sponsored by Bell) & KeynoteArt “Turbo” Tomassetti (F)Mission X MindsetColonel [Ret] Art Tomassetti served 27 years in the USMC. He trained in the AV-8B in Cherry Point, N.C. and served with two fleet Harrier Squadrons VMA-542 and VMA-513, flew 39 Combat missions during Operation Desert Storm, and made two deployments to the Western Pacific. He served as a member of the Joint Strike Fighter Test Force and became the lead government pilot for the X-35 Test Team. He was the only U.S. Government pilot to fly all three variants of the X-35 aircraft and flew the first ever Short Take-Off, level supersonic dash and vertical landing accomplished on a single flight (Mission X). He has more than 3200 hours in over 40 types of aircraft and is the only pilot to have flown both the X-35 and the F-35. Col [Ret] Tomassetti worked for Lockheed Martin Aeronautics as the F-35B USMC Program Manager from 2013-2019 and is currently CEO of Time2Climb.Afternoon Sesson ChairJoel Baden, Bell 1330 - DC-3: A Primer or RefresherPaul Park, General Dynamics/ Lockheed Martin /UT Arlington (Retired)1430 - Integration of the AGM-158A JASSM Cruise Missile with F/A-18 C/D Hornet Fleet (Finnish Air Force)Mikko Koli (M), International Test Pilots School1500 - Special Guest Speaker - USA Olympic Medalist/UTA Aero Mav Austen Smith Coffee Break, Sponsored by International Test Pilots School 1530 - New Test Pilot School Risk Management Curriculum Concept Thomas “Sulu” Hill, USAF (Retired) 1600 - Flight testing a Vertical Reference Window on an Airbus H145 Helicopter - All About PressureDenis Hammel & Alex Kolarich, Airbus