Thu, Sep 25, 2003
Symposium Open to Public, NOW, in LA
In Celebration of 100
Years of Powered Flight, this year’s Society of Experimental
Test Pilots' Symposium should be the largest ever held, and
will feature prominent figures from the fields of military,
general, and space aviation.
In a Symposium highlight, Pete Reynolds will join other aviation
luminaries in one of three oral history sessions. He was chosen for
his role as project test pilot for the Learjet Model 28, the first
jet to fly with winglets, which are now standard equipment on many
jet aircraft.
Three Decades of Experience
Reynolds has more than three decades of jet flight test
experience that started with Learjet in 1973. He has more than
11,000 flight hours and more than 8500 jet flight test hours.
He piloted seven first flights of new model jets, including two
all-new aircraft. He has set many civil jet World Class Aircraft
Records and a patent for boundary layer energizers, a transonic
airflow control device.
Reynolds has flown flight demonstrations in the Paris and
Farnborough Air Shows.
He’s a recipient of the Kansas Governor’s Aviation
Honors Award in 1992, was elected a Fellow in the Society of
Experimental Test Pilots in 1993 and in 1999 received the
prestigious James H. Doolittle Award for Outstanding
Accomplishments in Aerospace Engineering and Technical
Management.
Reynolds recently retired from his leadership of the Bombardier
Flight Test Center and formed PTR Aero, a flight test consulting
company working with several airframe manufacturers and major
aircraft modification firms.
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