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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

Profile of Dagfinn Gangsaas
Mr. Gangsaas has made significant achievements in engineering management, technology development and flight systems design for commercial and military aircraft during his career in the aerospace industry spanning 47 years. During 32 years with the Boeing Company he held a range of engineering and management positions including Manager of Flight Controls Research for Boeing Commercial Airplanes, Chief Engineer of Flight Controls for Military Airplanes, Chief Engineer Vehicle Management Systems for the Being JSF (X-32), and Chief Engineer for Unmanned Air-vehicles. After retiring from the Boeing Company, he formed Aerospace Consulting, and later Aerospace Control Dynamics LLC the latter with Ana Maria Gangsaas and Nomaan Saeed. Both companies have had long-term contracts with major aerospace companies. Mr. Gangsaas has an extensive technical background in flight control and avionics systems design, control law synthesis and analysis, system failure detection and redundancy management, aircraft stability and control analysis, aero-servo elastic analysis, flight systems certification and flight testing, and autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles.

Mr. Gangsaas received the 2002 Control Engineering Practice Award from the American Automatic Control Council for the development of innovative and practical multivariable control design methods. He has more than 20 outside technical publications including as principal author of “Application of Modern Synthesis to Aircraft Control: Three Case Studies”, IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control which won the Transactions’ Outstanding Paper of the Year Award for 1986, and “Practical Control Law Design for Aircraft Using Multivariable Techniques”, International Journal of Control, 1994. The paper was included as a chapter in the book “Advances in Aircraft Flight Control”, Mark Tischler, ed., London: Taylor & Francis, 1996. He holds numerous international and United States patents.

During 1983 and 1993 Mr. Gangsaas spent time as a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Mr. Gangsaas served nine years on the Board of Directors of the American Automatic Control Council (AACC) including two years as President. He is an Associate Technical Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and served on the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Committee and SAE Aerospace Guidance and Control Committee, and as General Chairman of 1990 American Control Conference and 1983 AIAA Guidance and Control Conference.

Mr. Gangsaas holds a BSc with Honors in Aeronautical Engineering from University of Glasgow, UK, and MS in Aeronautics and Astronautics from University of Washington.

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

Profile of Nomaan Saeed
Mr. Saeed began his professional career with Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, working in the areas of flight control design, flight dynamics, loads, and structural dynamics analysis. During his career at Gulfstream Mr. Saeed was responsible for fly-by-wire control law design for the ultra-long range Gulfstream G650, and integration of the control laws into closed loop flutter and dynamics loads analyses. Mr. Saeed’s responsibility spanned across multiple flight sciences disciplines.

Mr. Saeed received several Gulfstream Silver and Bronze Pride Awards for outstanding performance in flight control, flight dynamics, and loads & dynamics process improvements, and meeting critical milestones. He was responsible for multiple engineering software developments resulting in reduction of development cost and cycle times. He was also nominated for the General Dynamics Excellence Award for developing of lean multidisciplinary flight control design process at Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation.

Leaving Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation, he formed Aerospace Control Dynamics LLC with Mr. Dagfinn Gangsaas. Aerospace Control Dynamics has long-term contracts with major aerospace companies in the US and overseas. Mr. Saeed has extensive multidisciplinary technical expertise in control law design, aircraft stability & control analysis, aircraft simulations, dynamic loads analysis, structural dynamics modeling, flutter analysis, closed loop aero-servo-elastic analysis, steer-by-wire control law design, and the development software programs for engineering design and analysis.

Mr. Saeed has many outside technical publications in disciplines mentioned above.
Mr. Saeed holds a BSc with Honors and an MSc with Honors in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands.

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

Profile of Ana Maria A. Correa
Mrs. Gangsaas has thirty years of experience in the area of personal development including life, career, executive coaching, and leadership training of technical and other professionals. She worked as a manager in the human resource departments and as an outside consultant at Petrobras, Kodak, Philips, Masterfoods, Johnson & Johnson, Rhodia, Cebrace, Marilan and Cognis, several Banks, and Health Organizations.

She graduated with a degree in psychology specializing in organizations. Her credentials also include Practitioner and Master NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Psychology) and specializing in Integrated Coaching and Master Coach from the Integrated Coaching Institute and College of Executive Coaching and Appreciative Inquire (USA). She worked using Creative Process with focus in developing leadership and graduated from the Creative Problem Solving Institute (Buffalo USA). She is also a graduate of Holistic-Development, Team-Work, Neuroscience, and Leadership Architect 101 Competency Modelling by Korn/Ferry International.

Lately she has focused on individual coaching of technical professionals, company executives, Life Coaching, Teen Coaching, Team Work, Career Coaching and Leadership Training via Workshops.

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

Profile of Jerome Klein

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.

Profile of James D. Blight
Mr. Blight began his professional aerospace career with TRW Systems Group in Redondo Beach, California. He worked on stability analyses for satellite and missile systems and performed Kalman filter simulations on a major program.

He spent the majority of his career in flight controls engineering at The Boeing Company in Seattle, Washington. There he designed and analyzed control laws for commercial and military aircraft. He designed the original control laws for the NASA High Speed Civil Transport supersonic airliner study resulting in control laws that were successfully tested in simulation by Boeing- and British Airways Concorde test pilots. He designed the lateral/directional autopilot control laws for the DarkStar flying-wing autonomous aircraft which was successfully flight tested. He designed the STOVL (Short Takeoff Vertical Landing) control laws for the Boeing X-32 Joint Strike Fighter demonstrator aircraft which was successfully tested in flight. He participated in developing practical methods of applying Linear Quadratic design in a practical way using frequency shaping. These methods were applied to the above-mentioned aircraft. He created the Integral Kalman Filter structure and design procedure, defining the multiple bandwidths of the Kalman Filter. This procedure was used to reconstruct unrecorded control- and disturbance input data from an airliner’s flight data recorder.

He contributed to two texts on aircraft flight control design: 1) Optimal Control: Linear Quadratic Methods by B.D.O. Anderson and J.B. Moore (1990), and 2) Advances in Aircraft Flight Control, Mark Tischler, ed., (1996)

Mr. Blight has consulted and been employed by other firms. At Embraer, Brazil, he worked on the angle of attack limiter design for the Embraer 170 airliner, designed the yaw damper for the E190E2 airliner, and taught a popular course on multivariable flight control law design for Embraer engineers. At Northrop Grumman Corporation, San Diego, California, he designed the autopilot control law gains for the RQ-4 Block 20/30/40 series Global Hawk high-altitude unmanned surveillance aircraft and he participated extensively in the flight test program at Edwards Air Force Base, California. At Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation he worked on control law design and analysis for the G650 program and Advanced Aircraft Programs. At Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation he created linear analysis tools for helicopter control laws.

Mr. Blight holds a B.S.E. in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer, Information and Control Engineering from The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.

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.

Profile of John Hodgkinson
Mr Hodgkinson’s industrial training began at British Aircraft Corporation, now BAe Systems. He then moved to McDonnell Aircraft, now Boeing, where he led flight dynamics R&D and contributed to the F-4, F-15, F-18 and AV-8B aircraft. At Northrop Grumman he led flight control research and the flight control development for the YF-23A. Then while researching aircraft agility at Eidetics International he first worked with Dagfinn Gangsaas. On moving back to Douglas Aircraft, now Boeing, he led stability and control and flying qualities R&D for the company-wide Phantom Works, an assignment that included the High Speed Research Program. On retiring from Boeing he co-founded a small business developing water tunnel technology for dynamic stability and control measurements. He then transitioned to consulting and teaching at organizations including Boeing, COMAC, EADS, Embraer, Gulfstream, NASA and Northrop Grumman, consulting on such fly-by-wire aircraft as the B787, C919 and G650. His teaching activity has included industry courses in handling qualities and academic courses at Northrop University, UCLA and UC Irvine.

Mr Hodgkinson has been a US representative on NATO study groups on handling qualities and on operational agility. He has chaired the AIAA national committee on Guidance, Navigation and Control and was a member of the AIAA Atmospheric Flight Mechanics Committee, and of the SAE Aerospace Control and Guidance Committee.

He has authored or co-authored about fifty papers, and is author of the only text on aircraft handling qualities. One of his papers describing his early work at McDonnell was recognized by the AIAA as the most influential paper in atmospheric flight mechanics of its decade.

Mr. Hodgkinson holds a B.SC. (Eng) in Aerospace Engineering from Southampton University and an M.S. in Engineering Mechanics from St Louis University.

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

Profile of Jerry R. Newsom
Dr. Newsom began his career as a contractor supporting the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC). He later transitioned to a NASA civil servant for LaRC where he worked 38 years as a researcher and many management positions retiring in 2007 as the Director of Aeronautics. His technical work focused on aeroservoelasticity and controls. Early in his career, he was a chief contributor to a software package called ISAC (Integrations of Structures, Aerodynamics, and Controls), which provided one of the first integrated capabilities to conduct analyses of actively controlled flexible aircraft. He continued with theoretical and analytical contributions and expanded his technical knowledge through both wind-tunnel and flight test activities and direct application to engineering problems of current interest. His later contributions concentrated on methods for multidisciplinary approaches to controlling flexible structures and recently on methods for integrating computational fluid dynamics, flexible structures, and controls (sometimes referred to as computational aeroservoelasticity).

Dr. Newsom has received several awards including 2 NASA Group Achievement Awards, 3 NASA Special achievement awards, and the NASA Outstanding Leadership Medal. He has served on 3 AIAA Technical Committees and the International Council of Aeronautical Sciences Technical Committee. He is an Associate Fellow of the AIAA.

After retiring from NASA, he has consulted in the areas of aeroelasticity and aeroservoelasticity for many clients such as Gulstream Aerospace, Raytheon Missile Systems, US NAVY, DARPA, and NASA. Dr. Newsom has over 40 years of experience in flight sciences engineering. His primary technical expertise is aeroservoelasticity, control law design, flight and wind-tunnel testing, structural dynamics, and computer-aided design and analysis tool development.

Dr. Newsom holds a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Virginia Tech, an MS in Aerospace Engineering from George Washington University, and a BS in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech.

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

Profile of John Rea

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

Profile of Kaiming Chen

LEONARD WISH

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

Profile of Leonard Wish
Mr. Wish began his professional career with Antonov Scientific Technical Complex in Kiev Ukraine, working in the area of aircraft aerodynamics and flow analysis.

He moved to the US in 1991 and worked for the Dee Howard Company in San Antonio, TX, the Nordam Group inTulsa, OK, the Piper Aircraft in Vero Beach, FL, Composite Engineering, Inc. in Sacramento, CA and Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation in Savannah, GA.

During his career he was responsible for aerodynamic and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) design and analysis of a subsonic and transonic aircraft configurations and supersonic vehicles, aerodynamic loads analysis, aircraft icing analysis, stability and control and aircraft dynamics simulation, wind tunnel testing.

He received several Gulfstream Pride Awards for outstanding performance in aerodynamic design/optimization and Computational Fluid Dynamics analysis of the all new high speed G500 and G600, and for implementation of new aerodynamic design and analysis methods and tools.

After retirement Mr. Wish formed LW CFD Solutions Inc. and conducted drag study (usm3d flow solver), icing analysis (Lewice3d), and aero loads analysis on a subsonic aircraft (usm3d flow solver).

He has extensive technical experience in low speed to transonic Mach number viscous flow CFD simulations and aerodynamic design, High lift analysis (Maximum lift/Stall angle prediction), Aircraft Drag reduction analysis, Aircraft Stability and Control and Aerodynamic loads data base generation based on viscous flow CFD solutions, Ice accretion simulations, Wind tunnel testing support, and CFD data post-processing.

He is proficient with NASA Langley TetrUSS software system, FUN3D and NSU3D flow solver, NASA Glenn Lewice3D ice accretion computer code, and TECPLOT.

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