The FlyONSPEED Team
The neat thing about our project is that it’s organic. Everyone is a volunteer and contributes as they have time available. I’ve always been amazed at the amount of talent in our community. In no particular order, these are the folks that make up our team:
Lenny Iszak (RV-10)
Christopher Jones (RV-6A)
Cecil Jones (RV-8)
Phil Starbuck
Vern Little (Rocket)
Brian Chesteen (RV-7)
Bob Baggerman
Kacy Anderson (RV-7)
Paul Mantegna (RV-7)
Lt Daniel Rollings (RV-4)
Rob Prior (RV-6)
Nigel Speedy (RV-8)
I’m fortunate to live near Eglin AFB, where you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting someone who has worked in flight test or system development. This list doesn’t include all of the folks who have wandered into the hangar over the past five years and have helped out. Nor does it include our academic advisor, Dr. Dave Rogers, USNA, or all of the countless talented folks I’ve been able to network with that have contributed as well. It demonstrates what we can do when the VAF family collaborates. Special thanks to Ed Wischmeyer for some hardy debate and helping develop some of our flight test protocol.
I’d also like to thank our hard core initial beta testers: Rob Schroer, Sid Mayeux, and Jeff Vaughn. And when we developed Gen 2, we couldn’t have done the “home built” version without the help of Gary Sobek and Carlos Rodriguez.
The bad news is that I’m sure I’m forgetting somebody, and if that’s the case I apologize and I will edit this as soon as either the synapse fires or someone tells me what I’m thinking
And for all of the folks that take the time to participate in the safety discussion—thank you too. That discourse shapes the evolution of the project. Hopefully we are demonstrating what AOA-based energy cues bring to the fight. We’ll be keeping our open-source, non-profit, volunteer model as we move forward, and will post here and on our website as we learn more.
Vac
Chief Stick Monkey and Assistant Morale Officer
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