Wednesday, June 20, 2018 from 5:30 PM to 9:30 PM PDT
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5:30 pm - 6:55 pm Check-in, Networking, Dinner (6PM)
6:55 pm - 7:00 pm Introduction
7:00 pm - 8:15 pm Indoor Presentation and Q & A
8:15 pm - 9:30 pm (10 pm) Ourdoor demo & Networking
(Library (indoor) closes at 9:00 pm)
Manhattan Beach Library
1320 Highland Avenue
Manhattan Beach, CA 90266
LA Section Events/Programs Chair
AIAA Los Angeles - Las Vegas Section
949-426-8175
events.aiaalalv@gmail.com
$20 AIAA Professional Member Price
$25 Non-AIAA Member -Regualr Price
$10 AIAA Student / Educator Member Price
$15 Non-AIAA Member -Student / Educator
$5 Presentation Only -No Meal
(No Refund within 7 days of the event or afterwards)
Business Casual
Pan-Asian Platters or Boxes
Snacks and hot/cold beverages
Astrophotography Techniques
with Telescope Demonstration (if weather permits)
by
Timothy McDonald
USAF Test Pilot School
Astrophotopgraphy Techniques
Timothy McDonald
USAF Test Pilot School
Tim is currently an Experimental Test Pilot and flight instructor, USAF Test Pilot School and currently flying five different aircraft types, including the F-16. He is also a classroom instructor in the test disciplines of loads / structures, aircraft performance, human factors and aero-elasticity. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Society of Experimental Test Pilots Foundation and is an award-winning author and public speaker on a variety of topics. Tim attended USAF Academy (Class of ‘86), and obtained his BS in Astronautical Engineering, Cal State University, Fresno, (‘98), and MS, Mechanical Engineering, with honors. He is a graduate of the Air Force Test Pilot School (1996). He also served as the Technical Consultant to NASA on Human-Performance research projects. Accomplished amateur astrophotographerHe has 9 years operational flying experience in the F-16 and A-10, in Korea, the Philippines, Japan, United Kingdom, Germany, Turkey and Iraq. He was the A-10 Demonstration Pilot in 1991. He has 20+ years of experimental flight testing in the F-16, F-15, F-117, T-38, DG-1000 and Boeing 747, with over 6,500 hours of flying time in over 80 different types of aircraft.