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Meeting	ACGS Committee Meeting 107 - Boulder - March 2011
Agenda Location	7 SUBCOMMITTEE D – DYNAMICS, COMPUTATIONS, AND ANALYSIS 7.1 Personal History from Douglas Skyrocket to the Space Shuttle
Title	Personal History from Douglas Skyrocket to the Space Shuttle Best Presentation Award
Presenter	Herm Rediess
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Abstract	Herman A. Rediess, PhD Abstract Herm Rediess began his Cooperative Work Study (Coop) Program at the NACA High Speed Flight Station when in his sophomore year at UC Berkeley in 1955 and returned, to what was then named the NASA Flight Research Center, after graduating. He conducted flight dynamics, controls and handling qualities research on several experimental and military aircraft. After receiving his doctorate from MIT, he rose to Director of Research. The last flight program at Dryden before transferring to NASA Headquarters in 1978 was the Space Shuttle Approach and Landing Test. An extraordinary array of aircraft were tested during his tenure, including the Douglas Skyrocket D-558-2; X-series airplanes from X-1E through Lifting Bodies; most of the Century-series of fighters; numerous test-bed aircraft incorporating unique technology such as digital fly-by-wire system, integrated propulsion control system, supercritical wing; two variable stability aircraft (F-100 C and Lockheed JetStar); the Lunar Landing Research Vehicle; RPV research including Drone for Aerodynamics and Structural Testing (DAST), 3/8 Scaled F-15 spin vehicle, and HiMAT; and. several radio-controlled experimental aircraft now called mini RPVs. This presentation provides an historical perspective of the flight research based on his experience from 1955 to 1978 with particular emphasis on flight dynamics, control and handling qualities research. It includes methods for estimating aircraft stability and control derivatives from flight test data (later known as parameter or systems identification), variable stability aircraft research, handling qualities, including pilot induced oscillations, integrated propulsion control systems, flight dynamics, digital fly-by-wire, and active controls technology.