Staff
Dr. Barnes W. McCormick
Conference director; Boeing Professor Emeritus of Aerospace Engineering at Penn State
Dr. McCormick is well-known for his two textbooks, Aerodynamics of V/STOL Flight and Aerodynamics, Aeronautics, and Flight Mechanics. He is a former technical
director and editor of the Journal of the American Helicopter Society, and past vice president of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) for
education. Dr. McCormick has consulted for many companies and federal organizations and has served on advisory panels to the U.S. House of Representatives and
the Commanding General of the Army's Aviation Systems Command. He was chief of aerodynamics for Vertol when their Model 107, which became the venerable CH-46, first
flew.
Dr. Richard L. Bennett
Consultant
Dr. Bennett retired from Bell Helicopter's research department in 2001, after thirty-five years of focusing primarily on the areas of rotor aeroelasticity, helicopter flight
simulation, and active fuselage vibration control systems. Since retirement he has served as rotorcraft consultant to Lockheed-Martin, Boeing Helicopters, Sikorsky, LORD Corporation, BAE,
Moog, Bell Helicopter, and the National Research Council Canada.
Dr. Robert C. Bill
Former deputy director for propulsion, Vehicle Technology Directorate, U.S. Army Research Laboratory, NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio
After receiving his doctorate in mechanical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1970, Dr. Bill worked for the U.S. Army at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, until his retirement in 2005. He served for fourteen years as head of the propulsion and drivetrain portion of the army’s Vehicle Technology Directorate at NASA Glenn. Since 2006 he has worked as a part-time adjunct faculty member with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Penn State. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the American Helicopter Society.
Dr. Robert M. McKillip Jr.
Senior associate, Continuum Dynamics, Inc.
Dr. McKillip received his BSE degree from Princeton University and his master's and doctoral degrees from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He returned to Princeton for eight years
as an assistant professor with the department of mechanical and aerospace engineering. Since 1992, he has been a senior associate at Continuum Dynamics, Inc., where he is involved in
government- and industry-sponsored research programs on rotorcraft flight control, rotor system dynamic modeling and instrumentation, flight simulation, and shape memory alloy actuator
development. Dr. McKillip holds several patents in these areas. He has served on the handling qualities and the simulation technical committees for the American Helicopter Society.
David Pullman
Chief structural engineer, Advanced Technologies Incorporated (ATI)
Mr. Pullman has a bachelor's degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington and a master's degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University.
Formerly he worked as a United States Air Force researcher with the Non-Metallic Materials Directorate at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. He was also a structural engineer with Hartzell
Propeller, Inc., where he worked to start the first industry-wide Propeller Damage Tolerance Committee under the General Aviation Manufacturers Association. Currently at ATI, Mr. Pullman
has designed and built composite propellers and rotors for Boeing Helicopter, NASA, Sikorsky, and others.
Dr. John W. Leverton
Former head of applied acoustics/specialist, GKN Westland
Dr. Leverton holds a doctoral degree in aeroacoustics from the Institute of Sound and Vibration, Southampton University. He is the current chairman of the Helicopter Association
International (HAI) Acoustics/Environmental Committee, and was also the chair of the European Association of Aerospace Industries (AECMA) Helicopter Noise Certification
Group. He was also the International Coordinating Council of Aerospace Industries Association's (ICCAIA) rotorcraft representative to the International Civil Aviation
Organization (ICAO) for many years. He is a recognized international expert in helicopter noise and was awarded a Certificate of Commendation by the FAA for his efforts on an FAA
Heliport Design Guide.
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