2007 AEDC Fellows will be honored in upcoming ceremony

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  • By Janae' Daniels
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The center will induct three Arnold Engineering Development Center (AEDC) Fellows during an anual banquet at the Arnold Lakeside Club June 25. All three of the new Fellows are retired center employees while Frank Langham currently supports Aerospace Testing Alliance (ATA) projects. 

The following are 2007 AEDC Fellows:

Paul E. McCarty 
Mr. McCarty will be honored for his contribution in conceiving and developing the revolutionary noninterference stress measurement system (NSMS) and for technical and management leadership in advancing state-of-the-art aerospace test measurements. He advanced testing methodologies in test data acquisition and made substantial improvements in overall capability and reliability of AEDC's plants and test control systems. 

He led AEDC's NSMS technology program developing and transitioning the new capability from concept through performance demonstration and to fully operational status - and to further refinement. 

The NSMS Mr. McCarty developed has also been successfully applied in diagnosing and resolving problems encountered in fielded engine systems as well as AEDC's large compressors. 

William (Bill) MacDermott 
Mr. MacDermott will be honored for his leadership and technical innovation through a 42-year career at AEDC. He contributed to the design of the nine-stage air compressor plant for the Gas Dynamics Facility (GDF) which later became the von Karman Gas Dynamics Facility. He worked in design of the plant ducting and the rupture disk safety system. 

He developed a technique optimizing flexible nozzle contours by an influence method which is still in use. He also conducted studies defining the effect of air liquefaction on model testing in unheated, low Mach number wind tunnels. 

Mr. MacDermott was responsible of the early development of the arc-heated "hot shot" tunnels and the unique instrumentation required for testing in the impulse facilities. This work produced the technology that led to the development and acquisition of Tunnel F. 

T. Frank Langham
Mr. Langham will be honored for his contributions in leadership, sustained technical excellence and innovative development and application of analysis techniques and computational simulations to weapon system programs and test facilities at AEDC. 

One of his first assignments at AEDC was the mathematical modeling and evaluation of the dynamic stability parameters for bomber and attack aircraft. He also investigated the importance of dynamic derivatives in missile motion simulation. 

Dr. Richard Hallion, Guest Speaker
Dr. Hallion is the Senior Adviser for Air and Space issues, directorate for security, counterintelligence and special programs oversight, the Pentagon, Washington D.C.