Speaker: Billy Roeseler, Boeing Associate Technical Fellow

Human space launches today are mammoth undertakings requiring government funding and support. Stories of businessmen and music stars paying tens of millions of dollars for a seat on one of these launches have been recent news. But what if an average person could one day go into space? Such is the aim of the X Prize, established in 1996 to encourage low-cost space tourism, satellite launching, package delivery, and point-to-point passenger travel.. $10M will be awarded to the first private team to design and demonstrate a

craft capable of carrying three people 100 km above the earth, returning to earth safely, and repeating the same launch within two weeks. More than 20 teams from seven countries have registered to compete for the prize. The competition received some publicity in April of this year when the Scaled Composites team under Burt Rutan unveiled its entry in the race. This month’s talk will cover the speaker’s personal experience in designing an X Prize competition craft.

Billy Roeseler is an Associate Technical Fellow in Structures Technology at Boeing Commercial Airplanes. His present duties include developing ways to create more airplane for less

cost using innovative composite structures. He is also the supplier interface focal for the Wing Integrated Product Team.

Billy received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT and began work in the 747 Airloads Group in 1966. Since then he has been involved in 767 composites design, reduced the incidence of fatigue cracking on Boeing jets, and built composite wings for the V-22 and A-6, among many other projects.

Billy’s extracurricular activities are even more varied than his work experience. . His aerospace quality carbon structures on America’s Cup boats and unlimited hydroplanes have been

proven in test and in international competition Billy and his son invented the sport of kiteboarding, in which an athlete rides water skis and holds onto a kite, extracting enough energy from the water and air to tow himself along and even perform spectacular aerobatic feats.

For the past five years, he has also been involved in Canyon Space, a small team of school children and aerospace professionals testing rocket motors and ground and flight vehicles in the wilderness around Seattle and LA. The

team has developed a simulation and point-of-departure flight vehicle system that satisfies the X Prize mission requirements, and their proven track record supports a budget for space flight that is at least two orders of magnitude less than current NASA programs like the X-37. For more information on the X Prize, visit www.xprize.org.

Date: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 Place: Old Spaghetti Factory, 2801 Elliott Avenue, Seattle Time: 6:00 PM Social, No-Host Bar

6:30 PM Dinner 7:30 PM Program – X Prize

Please make reservations by 5/16. A reservation is a commitment to pay!

Dinner Reservations: Call anytime (425) 237-5176 or send email to paul.j.moorehead@boeing.com or michael.f.bartlett@boeing.com Entrée choices are chicken cacciatore or spinach ravioli. Please specify choice when reserving. Dinner Price: $15 AIAA/SFTE Members and Guests

$18 Non-Members $5 Students

Program Only: $5 (Free for persons 17 and under)

Newsletter

Volume 33, Number 9, May 2003

The Race for The X Prize

Joint AIAA/SFTE Lecture - Dinner Meeting

The 2003 Region VI AIAA Student Paper Conference By Joe Dortwegt, Secretary, PNW Section and Student Paper Conference Judge Co-Chair

Consider gliding for miles by extracting energy from the shear layer over the ocean surface -- as an albatross. Or for undergraduate James Parle, using a remote control glider at the crest of a mountain. Rather than using static soaring tactics - updrafts due to thermals or wind following the contour of a mountain -- James reported the phenomenon of dynamic soaring by experimentation using remote control gliders reaching speeds of 180 mph in 25 mph winds. This paper placed first in the undergraduate category at the Western Region AIAA student paper conference sponsored this year by the University of Washington.

James Parle (right) of USC receives first place undergraduate award from Professor Jim Hermanson (left), which includes a $500 cash award and a trip to the national conference. This years Student Conference was masterfully planned and executed by undergraduate Andrew McComas, president of the student chapter AIAA and his team of officers, under the guidance of AIAA Advisor Professor Jim Hermanson on April 10, 11 and 12th. Students from Utah State, Arizona State, Cal Poly Tech, San Jose State, UCLA, USC, UC Berkley, Embry-Riddle Aeronautic University, California State University and University of Washington prepared and presented papers in traditional astronautics and aeronautics, as applied to new problems, as the one noted above, or the behavior of helicopter rotors descending into their own wake, as was the paper by James Stack winning the graduate paper category.

Arriving at the Watertown Hotel in the University District, the visiting students were treated to tours of University’s Aeronautics and Astronautics department laboratories and the Boeing Everett plant. And students were provided the opportunity to present their own research projects. Student projects ranged from modeling rocket system component using materials from Home Depot, to the procurement and design of satellites actually used in space programs, as was the winning team paper by Darcy Allison and Lauren Egan, placing top in the team student paper category. The Student Paper Conference was rated as a very successful event, due in large part by the panel of volunteer judges from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The council of the AIAA Pacific Northwest Section would like join the University of Washington A&A department in thanking the panel judges, and the judge Chair which provided practical advise for these students in further developing their projects and demonstrated industry and professional interest in the AIAA students. Our thanks go to the following, many whom were student participants of the student paper contests of years past: Judge Chair Dr. Oktay Yesil (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Audio Judges Dr. Srini Bhat (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Steve Brown (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) John Camara (Boeing Integrated Defense Systems) Jim Manlove (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Dr. Neal Mosbarger (Boeing Integrated Defense Systems) Dr. Arun Nadkarni (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Dr. Rob Popescu (Aviation Partners) Billy Roeseler (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Dr. Fritz Roetman (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Jack Wimpress (Boeing, Retired) Technical Judges Russ Ashleman (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Daryl Bahls (Boeing Air Traffic Management) Dr. Steve Baughcum (Boeing Phantom Works) Bob Bleeg (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Chris Borland (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Dr. Cyrille Breard (Analytic Methods, Inc.) John Camara (Boeing Integrated Defense Systems) Donald Cook (Boeing Phantom Works) Larry Fink (Boeing Phantom Works) Mark Goldhammer (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Mike Henderson (Aviation Partners) Dan Hofferth (Honeywell) Rick Johnson (Boeing Phantom Works) Dr. Ted Katsanis (NASA, Retired) Tom Lavelle (NASA GRC) Jim Manlove (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Dr. Anutosh Moitra (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Dr. Neal Mosbarger (Boeing Integrated Defense Systems) Dr. Arun Nadkarni (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Steve Paris (Boeing Phantom Works) Dr. Rob Popescu (Aviation Partners) Dr. Karl Rink (University of Idaho) Billy Roeseler (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Dr. Fritz Roetman (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Howard Rush (Boeing Commercial Airplanes) Dr. Lawrence Schienbein (PNNL) CDR Dave Sliwa (Insitu Group, Inc.)

James Stack of U Cal Berkley receives the graduate first place student award, and happy to have an audience for his graduate work.

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Dinner Meeting and Lecture

Fourth Tuesday every monthTopic: The X-PrizeDate/Time: 20th, May 2003, Social at 6:00 p.mLocation: Old Spaghetti Factory, 2801 Elliott Avenue,

Seattle

May’s Past1908 First passenger flight (Wilbur Wright with

Charles Furnas as passenger)1911 US Navy requisitions first aircraft and creates the

Naval Aviation Service1919 First transatlantic flight from Long Island, NY to

Plymouth, England1923 First transcontinental non-stop flight1924 Altitude record of 35,239 feet attained over

Dayton, OH in a LePere fighter

Retired Members Brunch

Third Saturday every other monthSpeaker: Dave Letsinger – Computational

Fluid DynamicsDate/Time: May 17th, 9:00AMLocation Museum of Flight, Seattle

Contact Tom Holgate 253-838-0333

Future15-22 June 45th Paris Air Show14-17 July AIAA International Air & Space

Symposium20-23 July 39th Joint Propulsion Conference –

Huntsville, AL8-12 September 2003 Aerospace Congress & Exhibition

Greetings! This is my first Chairman’s come introduce myself. I’m Vera Martinoviwork in Stability & Control Product DeveBoeing Commercial Airplanes. I steppedchairmanship in April when our then-chaiLester, accepted a job in Fort Worth, TX. wonder what company that could be with?good luck to Eric and thanks for your servPacific Northwest Section.

Our section’s main focus this year is the 1anniversary of powered flight. To commeevent, AIAA has been actively supportingsection celebrations and developing someof their own. You may have heard about projects recently when the Boeing Red Bahonored as an AIAA Historic Aerospace Sother such famous sites as Tranquility BasAFB, and NASA Langley.

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Puget Sound area, a great event is the ExperimentalAircraft Association fly-in at Arlington, WA, July 9-13. Others may choose to do some long-distancecelebrating by making a pilgrimage to Oshkosh, KittyHawk, or Dayton, OH. My personal celebrationinvolves Bonnie (known to the FAA as N6438F), myvery first airplane. Look for us in the skies abovePaine Field this summer. (And go running the otherway? We probably won’t be able to catch you.)

Please let me or any other officer know how we canhelp you get the most out of your AIAA membership.We welcome your ideas on dinner meetings, fieldtrips, and social events. This society is for you.

Vera

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