Annual Balloon Systems Technical Committee Report

Activities 1 May 2005 – 30 April 2006

1.  Name of Technical Committee – Balloon Systems

2.  Name and address of TC Chair

Henry M. Cathey, Jr.

Physical Science Laboratory

New Mexico State University

7105 Maddox Boulevard

Chincoteague Island, Virginia, 23336-2104

email:

phone: 757/336-3178

fax: 757/336-6558

3.  Membership

  1. Associate Members -19 total (18 domestic and 1 foreign)

Dwight Bawcom

Henry Cathey

Debbie Fairbrother

Bill Flynn

Eric Frische

Tim Lachenmeier

Koh Murai

Kerry Nock

Julian Nott

Dwayne Orr

Mark Phillips

Jim Rand (Fellow)

Loren Seely

Michael Smith

Timothy Tamerler

Lee Thienel

Andre Vargas (Foreign-France)

Paul Voss

Jim Winker

  1. Young Members (under 35 years of age-please list names)

None

  1. Number of International Members one

Andre Vargas (Foreign-France)

4.  Meetings

  1. Number of TC meetings this year – 2 (one at conference and one via telecon) Another is planned for April
  2. Special events of TC (plant tours, invited speakers) - Second TC meeting in conjunction with the ATIO Technical Forum in Washington DC, Sept. 2005
  3. Participation in AIAA National Technical Conferences
  4. Name of conference - ATIO 5th Annual Technical Forum
  5. Number of sessions sponsored - 8 sessions, 23 papers, one shared panel discussion among Balloons, LTA, and Gossamer
  6. Other conference participation - cosponsored sessions with LTA

5.  Honors and Awards presented by the TC

  1. Name of the award - Otto C. Winzen Lifetime Achievement Award
  2. Name of recipient(s) - Sigvard Stenlund
  3. Where awarded – mailed, recipient declined to attend the ATIO meeting

6.  TC Publication Activities

Aerospace America highlights article prepared for the Dec 2005 issue

7.  TC Participation/Activities with AIAA Sections

The Balloon TC worked closely with the LTA TC this year to have combined sessions at the ATIO Technical Forum

8.  TC Participation in AIAA Committees/Activities

An abstract was submitted to AIAA for a Balloon design competition.

9.  In 4 or 5 sentences, sum up your TC’s activities for the year

The primary effort for the TC this year was to have full sessions and high quality papers for the ATIO Technical Forum at Washington, DC in September 2005. This forum was integrated with the LTA TC and provided good interchange between these two communities in areas of common interest. The TC had one face to face TC meeting last year and one phone conference. Another face to face TC meeting is planned for April. The TC submitted an abstract to AIAA for a balloon design competition. The design competition is for a balloon on Mars.