September Dinner Meeting (This Page)

October Dinner Meeting (This Page)

Please join us on Tuesday September 26, 2000 for our September Dinner Meeting. Our speaker will be Dacong Weng, Ph.D., Chemical Engineering; Project Engineer, Reusable Launch Vehicle Fuel Cell Development, Honeywell International, Inc., Engines & Systems, Torrance, CA. Dr. Weng has extensive experience with PEM systems for fuel cells, sensors, and other applications. He has a strong background and considerable work experience in electrochemical manufacturing processes and reactor design. Dr. Weng holds three patents, has 20 technical publications and has given 12 presentations at national and international conferences.

We will also be honoring members celebrating AIAA Membership Anniversaries. Many of these individuals have made significant contributions to the industry and AIAA throughout their years of membership. Please join us as we salute these individuals for their hard work and dedication to AIAA.

The following individuals will be recognized for their years of AIAA service:

50 Year Members: M. Abramovitz, Gordon Fox, Henry Jex, Mortimer Lowy, Elizabeth See, Harold Mirels, Herman Carpenter, Robert Solverson, A. Dervy, Howard Axtell, George Levchuk, Richard Landon, and Laurence Hamilton.

40 Year Members: John Attias, Thomas Nosek, Nathaniel Felman, Hans Meissinger, Gordon Reiter, Buzz Aldrin, George Gleghorn, Sidney Sternberg, Gilbert Kovelman, Desmond Howling, Herschel Owens, John Wall, Joseph Horst, R. Bell, Jess Bolton, Eugene Borson, and Charles Edelsohn.

 25 Year Members: David Herting, John Dahlin, John Kulpa, George Merrick, Ernest Csendes, David Hall, Howard Deacon, Loren Slafer, Edward Danielsen, Whilliam Shih, Allen Arata, Paul Krekeler, Hohn Horton, and Hong Hahn.

Please join us on Wednesday October 18, 2000 for our October Dinner Meeting featuring F-22 Chief Test Pilot, A. Paul Metz.

Paul Metz was named Chief Test Pilot for the F-22 Advanced Tactical Fighter in October 1992. He made the first flight on the F-22A Raptor aircraft on September 7, 1997 and continues to be actively involved in the flight test program for that aircraft. Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, he served 12 years in the U.S. Air Force and was an Engineering Test Pilot and Chief Test Pilot for Northrop Aircraft for 12 years.

Metz joined Northrop Aircraft in 1980 as an Engineering Test Pilot. He conducted flight tests on the F-5E/F, the F-20 and the Antonov Colt. In October 1985, he was appointed Chief Test Pilot for Northrop Aircraft. From 1985 through 1992, he was responsible for flight tests of the F-20 Tigershark, the RF-5E Tiger Eye Reconnaissance Aircraft, the F-86F Sabre and other programs. He made the first flight of the YF-23A Advanced Tactical Fighter in August 1990.

Metz entered the USAF in 1968 and flew operational missions in the F-105G Wild Weasel in the U.S. and Southeast Asia. His combat day and night missions against surface-to-air missiles and anti-aircraft gun sites in support of strike missions in North Viet Nam earned him two Distinguished Flying Crosses and six Air Medals. In 1976 he was a distinguished graduated from the USAF Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB and he remained at Edwards AFB conducting avionics, flying qualities, engine and flutter tests on the F-5E/F. In 1978 he became an instructor pilot at the U.S. Navy Test Pilot School at Patuxent River, Maryland.

Metz was born in Springfield, Ohio, January 1946. He received a bachelor's degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from the Ohio State University, Summa Cum Laude, in 1968. His graduate studies have been in Aeronautical engineering at Ohio State and California State University, Fresno and Aviation Safety at the Naval Post Graduate School, Monterey, California.

He is a Fellow and President of the Society of Experimental Test. He has written numerous articles on the flight test of modern fighter aircraft. He has over 7,000 hours and more than 37 years of experience flying 72 aircraft types including the F-86, F-105, F-4, F-5, F-15, F-20, YF-23 and F-22.

Paul is married and has three sons.