Tue, May 04, 2010
Envisions Small-Scale Development Of Green, Quiet, Electric,
Cutting-Edge Aircraft
Dr. Brien Seeley will discuss electric-powered and other
innovative aircraft when he presents "Green, Quiet, Electric
V/ESTOL Aircraft: The Second Century of Flight" at 1400 EDT in the
Reid Conference Center on Tuesday at NASA's Langley Research Center
in Hampton, VA. Seeley, president of the Comparative Aircraft
Flight Efficiency (CAFE) Foundation will show how electric
propulsion and other new technology can enable an enormous and
sustainable expansion of air transportation.
Seeley will present a similar talk for the general public at
1930 EDT at the Virginia Air & Space Center in downtown
Hampton. The evening presentation is free and no reservations are
required.
Seeley's talk will focus on aeronautical solutions to airline
delays, surface gridlock and air quality. A practicing
ophthalmologist who inaugurated the Personal Aircraft Design
Academy, Seeley will outline how NASA's aeronautics research can be
rapidly applied to these solutions by merging it with the private
efforts of "garage band" innovators -- independent inventors and
entrepreneurs.
Seeley obtained his medical degree from the University of
California, San Francisco (UCSF), where he also performed his
residency in eye surgery. He has a self-proclaimed, life-long
passion for flying, has read and studied aerodynamics on his own,
and helped build two experimental aircraft. Seeley founded the CAFE
Foundation in 1981 to host the CAFE 400 flight efficiency aircraft
races.
In 2005, NASA and CAFE signed a Space Act Agreement for CAFE to
host the NASA Centennial Challenge for Aviation. CAFE conducted the
first two flight competitions in Santa Rosa in 2007 and 2008. In
July 2011, the CAFE team will host the first NASA Green Flight
Challenge for 200 pMPG (passenger miles per gallon) aircraft.
Seeley's medical honors include being elected vice president of
his 155-physician specialty group and president of the UCSF Cordes
Eye Society. The Sonoma County (CA) Medical Association awarded him
"Outstanding Contribution to Sonoma County Medicine in 2003" for
his 10 years of publishing diverse medical science articles in the
journal, Sonoma Medicine.
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