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Saturday, October 10, 2020 from 10:00 AM to 1:50 PM PDT
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(October 10, 2020) Inventing the Joint Strike Fighter with Dr. Paul Bevilaqua | Air Refueling with Mark Hasara | Climate Change and Climate Reality Projectby with Syreeta Watkins and Douglas Yazell 

Volunteers are needed for al AIAA activities, please contact cgsonwane@gmail.com

Saturday, October 10th, 2020, 10 AM

Agenda/Schedule (All Time PDT)
10:05 AM (PDT): Dr. Chandrashekhar Sonwane (AIAA LA LV Section Chair) (Welcome)
10:10 AM (PDT): Dr. Paul Bevilaqua
11:40 AM (PDT): Lt. Col. Mark Hasara
01:10 PM (PDT): Ms. Syreeta Watkins and Mr. Douglas Yazell
01:50 PM (PDT): Adjourn
Inventing the Joint Strike Fighter
by
Dr. Paul Bevilaqua
AIAA Fellow
AIAA Distinguished Lecturer
Chief Engineer of the Skunk Works
Lockheed Martin Corporation
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Air Refueling
by
Mark R. Hasara, Lt Col, USAF, (ret)
Author of Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit
Professional Speaker: Aviate, Navigate, and Communicate
Founder of Wall Pilot: Aviation graphics for the walls of your home or office
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Climate Change and Climate Reality Project
by
Syreeta Watkins and Douglas Yazell 
Syreeta Watkins:
Contract Specialist at NASA
Douglas Yazell:
Honeywell-Retired; Teacher, Math & Robotics, Texas City High School
 
Inventing the Joint Strike Fighter
This presentation will describe the technical and program challenges involved in developing the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter and show how an innovative idea became an international program with engineers from half a dozen countries developing a single replacement aircraft for multiple aircraft types. The F-35 Joint Strike Fighter was developed to meet the multirole fighter requirements of the US Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and our allies. The Air Force variant is a supersonic, single engine stealth fighter. The Navy variant has a larger wing and more robust structure in order to operate from aircraft carriers, while the Marine Corps variant incorporates an innovative propulsion system that can be switched from a turbofan cycle to a turbo shaft cycle for vertical takeoff and landing. This propulsion system enabled the X-35 to become the first aircraft in history to fly at supersonic speeds, hover, and land vertically. The development team won the Collier Trophy, which recognizes “the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America” each year, for this accomplishment.
Dr. Paul Bevilaqua has spent much of his career developing Vertical Take Off and Landing aircraft. He joined Lockheed Martin as Chief Aeronautical Scientist and became Chief Engineer of the Skunk Works, where he played a leading role in creating the Joint Strike Fighter. He invented the dual cycle propulsion system that made it possible to build a stealthy supersonic VSTOL Strike Fighter, and suggested that conventional and Naval variants of this aircraft could be developed to create a common, affordable aircraft for all three services. He subsequently led the engineering team that demonstrated the feasibility of building this aircraft.

Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, he was Manager of Advanced Programs at Rockwell International’s Navy aircraft plant, where he led the design of VSTOL interceptor and transport aircraft. He began his career as an Air Force officer at Wright Patterson AFB, where he developed a lift system for an Air Force VSTOL Search and Rescue Aircraft. He received degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and Purdue University.

He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He is also the recipient of a USAF Scientific Achievement Award, AIAA and SAE Aircraft Design Awards, AIAA and AHS VSTOL Awards, and Lockheed Martin AeroStar and Nova Awards.
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"Air Refueling"
1. Air Refueling History
     Math in Public: A Tanker Driver's Echo-Footprint
     First air refueling: Wes May's gas can in 1921
     Lowell Smith and John Richter: Rockwell Field San Diego in 1923
     The Germans made us do it!: The Question Mark
     Sir Alan Cobham and Flight Refueling Limited: First Patented System
     First Combat hook up: June 1951 of Korean War
     Chrome Domes and Brass Knobs: The Cuban Missile Crisis
2. Afghanistan
     The 509th Weapons School
     9/11
     Coalition Partners
     Afghanistan: Opening Night
     Battle for Robert's Ridge
3. Iraqi Invasion
     Operation Southern Focus
     F-117 attack on Dora Farms
     "Shock and Awe" becomes "Mad and Pissed Off"
     KI/CAS
     Thunder Runs
4. Sluggo's Dream Tanker
Mark Hasara is a former Air Force KC-135 pilot, international businessman, and consultant in the defense industry. Directing the creation of the world’s only graduate-level air refueling planning and operations course, he deployed five times after 9/11 leading a team of 30 international airmen responsible for all air refueling operations across three continents. Mark authored the book Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit in November 2017 published by Simon and Schuster describing his experiences and relating them to core elements of success on the battlefield, in the boardroom, or everyday life. Delivering over 5000 presentations to military and international business leaders, he continues to write and speak about experiences and lessons learned from four wars and the business world. Mark and his wife Valerie are the parents of five wonderful kids and currently live in Utah.

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Climate Change and Climate Reality Project
As a trained volunteer Leader with Climate Reality Project, I can present the updated slide deck of Vice President Al Gore, along with a few charts and comments of my own. The slideshow was part of the work that resulted in honoring Al Gore with the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Climate Reality Project provides us with slide decks of various lengths, including one which can be shown in as few as ten minutes. The official slide deck asks, "Must we change?", "Can we change?", and, "Will we change?" I will add a few comments of my own, including two comments from the 2019 book by Naomi Oreskes, "Why Trust Science?" A minority says the settled science is not settled. She presents one popular way to talk to them, but they win if we use that approach. Two ways to start and win those conversations are the subjects of her 2010 book and her 2019 book. She also explains that demographic diversity is required for a diversity of perspectives in modern science.

Mr. Yazell worked for Honeywell aerospace engineering from 1981 to 2011, mostly on NASA projects. He earned a BSEE degree from the University of South Florida in Tampa and a Master of Science in Engineering from the University of California, Irvine, south of the Los Angeles area. The latter was mostly from the mechanical engineering department, with work in robotics, control systems, and equations of motion. He worked in Clearwater Florida 1981-1983, the Los Angeles area 1983-1992, and in the NASA/JSC community after 1992. Since 2016 he is a Teacher in public high schools with two teaching certificates, Math and Technology Education, including a year of teaching Robotics.
Syreeta Watkins is a Houstonian, married with 2 kids. She works at NASA, Johnson Space Center as a transportation specialist and sustainability lead. Through her career at NASA, she joined forces with Engineers without Borders, Johnsons Space Center Chapter and has pushed for domestic clean water projects in the states in addition to the already established International projects through this organization. She has been the fundraising coordinator for EWB for 2 years and is now also the lead for communication and relationship building between EWB and domestic project communities. She is also a fundraising coordinator and rider for the BPMS150 in the search for a cure for friends and family with multiple sclerosis. Overall, Syreeta has a passion for educating and helping others in need and building long lasting relationships.