team

DAGFINN GANGSAAS

President

Experience: 48years of experience in engineering design and management

Technical Expertise: Flight Control & Avionics Systems, Control Law Design & Analysis, Aero-servo-elastic Analyses, Flight Management, Failure Detection and Redundancy Management, Aircraft Stability & Control Analysis, System Certification and Flight Testing, CAT III Automatic Landing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Education: MS Aeronautical Engineering (1974), University of Washington, BSc (Honors) Aeronautical Engineering (1967), University of Glasgow, UK


Achievements: 2002 Control Engineering Practice Award –American Automatic Control Council (AACC), President –AACC (1994-1996), Director and Officer -AACC (9 years), Associate Fellow –American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Advisory Board European Union Active Control for Flexible 2020 Aircraft (ACFA2020) R&D Program

Publications/Patents: More than 20 outside technical publications and numerous patents

NOMAAN SAEED

Vice President & Chief Engineer

Experience: 18 years of experience in flight control design & analysis

Technical Expertise: Control Law Design, Analysis & Implementation (manual & automatic), Aero-servo-elastic Analyses, Aircraft Stability and Control Analysis, Handling Qualities, Flutter and Maneuver/Gust Loads Analysis, Flight Test & Parameter Identification, Steer-By-Wire Design & Analysis, Actuator Modeling & Simulation, Aircraft Simulation and Computer-Aided-Design & Analysis Tool Development.

Education: MSc (Honors) in Aerospace Engineering (2004) and BSc (Honors) in Aerospace Engineering (2002), Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

Achievements: Gulfstream Silver and Bronze Pride Awards for outstanding performance, Nominated for General Dynamics Excellence Award, Member MathworksAerospace Advisory Board, Member American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Publications: Several outside technical publications and patents

ANA MARIA A. CORREA

Vice President Training

Experience: 35 years of experience in the area of personal development including life, career, executive coaching, and leadership training of technical, executive and other professionals

Expertise: Individual and team coaching of technical professionals, and company executives.

Education: Degree in psychology from Faculdad Salesiana de Folosfia e Letras Lorena

JEROME KLEIN

Stability & Control Consultant: Flight Dynamics, Flying & Handling Qualities, Aerodynamics Modeling

Experience: 49 years flight control engineering design and management

Technical Expertise: Aircraft Stability & Control Analysis, Flight Control Systems, Aerodynamic Models for Engineering Development and Crew Training Simulators, Aircraft Functional Hazard Analysis, System Certification and Flight Testing

Education: M.S. degree in Applied Physics -1969. Louisiana State University, New Orleans, LA. B. S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering –1962 University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN

Achievements: NATO lecturer on Flight Mechanics to the Turkish Aerospace industry in Ankara, Turkey, Lectures on Flight Mechanics at PT. IPTN and USA corporations, several USA and Brazilian patents

JAMES D. BLIGHT

Flight Controls Consultant: Control Design & Analysis, Modeling & Simulation.

Experience: 32 years of industry experience in aircraft flight control law design, aircraft handling qualities analysis, non-linear 6DOF aircraft simulation, aero-servo-elastic analysis, aircraft control analysis, and flight test data analysis.

Technical Expertise: Manual and automatic flight control systems, flight control law design, analysis, and implementation. Closed loop 6-DOF flight simulation in the Matlab/Simulink environment, and HW/SW in-the-loop ground and flight testing of flight control systems.

Education: PhD Computer, Information and Control Engineering (1973) , University of Michigan, BS Electrical Engineering (1966), University of Michigan

Achievements: Adjunct Professor Oregon State University and University of Portland, Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control and AIAA Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics.

Publications/Patents: Many outside technical publications and patents.

JOHN HODGKINSON

Flight Controls Consultant: Flying and Handling Qualities, Flight Dynamics, Flight Control

Experience: 47 years engineering design and management and consulting

Technical Expertise: Flight Controls Analysis, Design and Management, Flying and Handling Qualities, Aircraft Stability & Control Analysis and Test

Education: MS Aeronautical Engineering (1971), St Louis University, BSc (Eng) Aeronautics and Astronautics Engineering (1965), University of Southampton, UK

Achievements: USA representative on two NATO/AGARD groups. Associate Fellow AIAA, Boeing and McDonnell Douglas Technical Fellow, Served on one and chaired another AIAA Technical Committee, Instructor, AIAA short course, Aircraft Handling Qualities, Adjunct Professor, Northrop University and UCLA

Publications: 50 technical publications, including text book, AIAA Award 2011, Most Influential Paper of the 1970’s in Atmospheric Flight Mechanics.

JERRY R. NEWSOM

Aeroservoelasticity Consultant

Experience: 38 years of experience in flight sciences engineering analysis & design


Technical Expertise: Aero-servo-elasticity, Control Law Design & Analysis, Aircraft Stability and Control Analysis, Flutter and Maneuver/Gust Loads Analysis, Flight and Wind-tunnel Testing, Structural Dynamics, and Computer-Aided-Design & Analysis Tool Development.


Education: BS in Engineering Science & Mechanics (1973), Virginia Tech, MS in Aerospace Engineering (1978), George Washington University, and PhD in Mechanical Engineering (2002), Virginia Tech


Achievements: 2NASA Group Achievement Awards, 3 NASA Special Achievement Awards, NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal, served on 3 AIAA Technical Committees and International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences Program Committee

Publications: 18 NASA Technical Reports, 10 peer reviewed Journal Articles and 16 Conference Papers

JOHN REA

Aircraft Systems Consultant: FBW Systems, Actuators, Avionics

Experience: 26 years of experience in development, testing and certification of aircraft FBW flight control, avionics, hydraulic power, electrical power, landing gear, breaks systems. Held positions as test director for EASA and FAA certification testing, wrote test procedures and prepared certification reports complying with guidance material such as ARP4754 and DO178.


Technical Expertise: Flight systems design, analysis, and integration. Requirements development, including integration into DOORS. Integration of multiple systems with closed loop 6-DOF flight simulation in the Matlab/Simulink environment, and HW/SW in-the-loop ground and flight testing of flight control and other aircraft systems.


Achievements: “Boeing 777 High Lift Control System”, Aug. 1993, IEEE Aerospace & Electronics Systems Magazine, Presented at NAECON ‘93, Dayton, OH, May 1993.


Education: Master of Electrical Engineering (ABET accredited degree program), University of Alaska-Fairbanks, 1988, Professional Engineer Registration (#29126), State of Washington, USA, 1992

KAIMING CHEN

Flight Controls Consultant: Flight Dynamics, Control Design & Analysis, Flying & Handling Qualities

Experience: 8 years of experience in aircraft flight control law design, aircraft handling qualities analysis, non-linear 6DOF aircraft simulation, aero-servo-elastic analysis, aircraft stability and control analysis, and flight test data analysis.


Technical Expertise: Flight control law design and analysis, implementation of closed loop 6-DOF flight simulation in the Matlab/Simulink environment, S&C and aero-servo-elastic stability analysis, and HW/SW in-the-loop ground and flight testing of flight control systems.


Achievements: Designed and implemented control law algorithms, conducted open and closed loop 6-DOF flight simulations via desktop and real-time flight simulators, conducted ground based HW/SW in the loop and flight testing of flight control systems.


Education: MS degree in Aerospace Engineering (2007), University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

LEONARD WISH

Aerodynamics Consultant: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), Aerodynamics, Aircraft Icing, Stability & Control

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