Al 'Buddy' Holmes, Director, New Business in the Government Sales and Marketing will give a presentation on Gulfstream Special Mission Aircraft.

Biography:
Al "Buddy" Holmes brings over 40 years of experience in the Aerospace Industry beginning at General Dynamics, Fort Worth with the RB-57F and FB-111 aircraft, and Lockheed, Marietta with the C5A, C141, C130, XV4B Hummingbird, and Jetstar II. During the last 20 years at GAC, his engineering experience has been utilized during the first 8 years as Group Head of Aerodynamics, Performance, Flight Dynamics, and Manager of Flight Sciences during the design, development and introduction of the G-IV and G-IV SP, our FEWSG development and our MCRS PhotoRecon G-III's. For the next 8 years he has served as the Project Engineering Manager for all of our Foreign Military and Government Agency Special Mission programs including our two operational Swedish SIGINT, S-102B, G-IV's, our successful fleet of Japanese JDA U-4's, the NOAA Hurricane Research G-IV, our extended ASTOR effort, and early SEMA efforts. The last four years, as Director, New Business in the Governments Sales and Marketing have seen the successful sales of HIAPER, SEMA, CAEW programs and a quantum jump in interest in our Aircraft for Special Mission applications.

Buddy is a Registered Professional Engineer in Georgia, an SAE member and AIAA Associate Fellow with service on National Technical Committees in Applied Aerodynamics and Atmospheric Flight Mechanics. He has coauthored several SAE, AIAA, ASME Technical Papers covering a range of topics from Gulfstream Special Mission Aircraft, and Gulfstream Cabin Noise Reduction to Railcar Aerodynamics. For the latter, he received the 1984 ASME Land Transportation Award. Buddy is an honors graduate of the University of Florida in Aerospace Engineering and earned a Master of Science from Georgia Tech in Engineering.

WHEN: THURSDAY, MAY 29, 11:45-1PM
TICKET DEADLINE: Wednesday, May 28.
WHERE: CROSSWINDS GOLF COURSE

SPECIAL NOTE: ATTENDANCE IS RESTRICTED TO US CITIZENS AND PERMANENT RESIDENTS,
GULFSTREAM EMPLOYEES ONLY

MENU: Sandwich Buffet
COST: $8 MEMBERS, STUDENTS AND CO-OPS, $10 NON-MEMBERS

TICKETS AVAILABLE FROM: Mark D. Moss, x.23914; Ross Osborne, x.24785; Jason Thomas, x.28803.

Drawing will be held for door prize