Presentation Date: January 26, 2012
Dan Dugan, NASA test pilot at Moffett Field
Research pilot at NASA Ames Research Center 1970-1990. Tested XV-5B Lift Fan, YOV-10A Rotating Cylinder Flap Research Aircraft.
Project Pilot for XV-15 Tiltrotor for 14 years. This X-type aircraft proved tiltrotor concept and led to development of V-22 Osprey, Bell / Agusta 609 tiltrotors.
Project Pilot on UH-1H V / STOLAND aircraft; had first digital flight control system in a helo.
Other developmental flying included XV-15 aeroelastic, dynamic stability tests -- new techniques demonstrated for dynamics testing.
Participated in development of sidestick controller in XV-15 (only one to date in a tiltrotor). Flew it as Project Pilot - 1985
Two NASA Achievement Awards for XV-15 development. Flew XV-15 at Paris Airshow, 1981.
Assigned to V-22 Multiservice Test Team (later ITT) at Pax River,1990-1995.
Deputy Project Manager, NASA, to participate in development of the Osprey.
Army Aviation Test Activity at Edwards AFB,1965-1968.
Performance, HQ testing of YUH-1C, ACH-47 (Guns-A-Go-Go), YCH-47B APE and various weapons systems.
Service in Vietnam 1968-1969 (BSM(2) AM(2), ACM. Deputy Director, National Rotorcraft Technology Center.
Holds ATP ratings -- Airplanes, Rotorcraft. Logged over 8000 hours, 2052 hours jet time.
Authored 40 technical papers, reports, articles. The most recent was presented at SETP Symposium Sept, 2006, American Helicopter Society’s Specialist’s Meeting, Oct, 2008 and AHS Forum, May, 2009.
Four Society of Experimental Test Pilots Symposium papers: 1980, 1985, 1997, 2006.
Paper published in “Cockpit,” 2000.
Graduate of United States Military Academy (BS), Virginia Tech (MS), Graduate Naval Test Pilot School.
Research pilot at NASA Ames Research Center 1970-1990. Tested XV-5B Lift Fan, YOV-10A Rotating Cylinder Flap Research Aircraft.
Project Pilot for XV-15 Tiltrotor for 14 years. This X-type aircraft proved tiltrotor concept and led to development of V-22 Osprey, Bell / Agusta 609 tiltrotors.
Project Pilot on UH-1H V / STOLAND aircraft; had first digital flight control system in a helo.
Other developmental flying included XV-15 aeroelastic, dynamic stability tests -- new techniques demonstrated for dynamics testing.
Participated in development of sidestick controller in XV-15 (only one to date in a tiltrotor). Flew it as Project Pilot - 1985.
Two NASA Achievement Awards for XV-15 development. Flew XV-15 at Paris Airshow, 1981.
Assigned to V-22 Multiservice Test Team (later ITT) at Pax River,1990-1995.
Deputy Project Manager, NASA, to participate in development of the Osprey.
Army Aviation Test Activity at Edwards AFB,1965-1968.
Performance, HQ testing of YUH-1C, ACH-47 (Guns-A-Go-Go), YCH-47B APE and various weapons systems.
Service in Vietnam 1968-1969 (BSM(2) AM(2), ACM. Deputy Director, National Rotorcraft Technology Center.
Holds ATP ratings -- Airplanes, Rotorcraft. Logged over 8000 hours, 2052 hours jet time.
Authored 40 technical papers, reports, articles. The most recent was presented at SETP Symposium Sept, 2006, American Helicopter Society’s Specialist’s Meeting, Oct, 2008 and AHS Forum, May, 2009.
Four Society of Experimental Test Pilots Symposium papers: 1980, 1985, 1997, 2006.
Paper published in “Cockpit,” 2000.
Graduate of United States Military Academy (BS), Virginia Tech (MS), Graduate Naval Test Pilot School.