Professor Russell Boyce holds the position of Chair for Intelligent Space Systems and Director of UNSW Canberra Space – Australia’s largest and leading space mission, research and education team. On the one hand, he has built and led teams pursuing game changing technologies across a three-decade career, firstly in hypersonics and scramjets, and now in the development of artificial-intelligence-enabled space systems. He played a significant role in the establishment of the Australian Space Agency, and is Australia’s only living Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. On the other hand, he is a graduate of INSEAD’s flagship Advanced Management Program and of the AICD, and is passionate about the art of strategic yet personal leadership in an increasingly complex world.
People Category: Aeronautics
Mike Borfitz
Mike Borfitz earned a BS in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in 1980.
Today he is the CEO of Kilroy Aviation, based at Salisbury Regional Airport, MD. He is an ODA Administrator and Management Designated Engineering Representative (DER) with FAA delegated authority to approve data in the technical disciplines of Flight Test and Powerplant, Parts 23 and 25. His 43 years of engineering experience includes 23 years of public service with the FAA and 13 years with the Boeing Company, plus a wide variety of private experience as a contract DER and regulatory & safety consultant. He is in demand as an expert witness in civil litigation involving aviation safety as well as type and production certification. He has written a variety of articles on subjects such as FAA certification of unmanned aerial systems (drones), FAA safety, certification and delegation.
Todd Magee
Todd Magee has spent the majority of his 36+ year career at Boeing focused on the design, analysis, development and testing of high speed aircraft, launch vehicles and missiles. He has held leadership positions on many NASA, DOD and Boeing proprietary projects where supersonic and hypersonic aircraft have been developed. His expertise includes project leadership, aerodynamic design and analysis, performance, Computational Fluid Dynamics, sonic-boom design and analysis, aeroheating and wind tunnel testing for subsonic through hypersonic vehicles.
Todd is currently the Principal Investigator on the NASA High Speed Commercial Vehicle Concepts and Technology Roadmaps program. The objective of this program is to develop non-proprietary near-term and advanced concepts for high-speed (Mach 2- 5) commercial aircraft with entry into service in the 2030 and 2040 timeframes, respectively. Todd also is the Technical lead for the DARPA Glide Breaker Phase 2 program, which is focused on the development of Jet Interaction scaling laws through wind tunnel and flight experiments. Finally, Todd is the Boeing technical point-of-contact for the Boeing-JAXA collaboration.
Recent past project experience includes; Aerodynamics lead for the DARPA FAST program, Chief Engineer for the Boeing Supersonic NeXt project and Flight Sciences IPT lead for the Boeing Hypersonic Passenger Airplane (HPA) program. The objective of the Supersonic NeXt project was to develop tools, technologies, and approaches to address environmental challenges to commercial supersonic flight. Todd’s Flight Science IPT lead responsibilities on the HPA program included leading the aerodynamics, wind tunnel testing, configuration, mass properties, stability and control, performance and aeroheating.
Todd’s other project experience includes Aeroscience IPT Lead for the Air Force X-51 Scramjet Flight Demonstrator, Advanced Design IPT lead for the DARPA Quiet Supersonic Platform (QSP), Boeing Technical Representative for the DARPA Shaped Sonic Boom Demonstrator and Principal Investigator for the NASA Experimental Validation program. The success of this last program was one of the contributing factors for launching the NASA Low-Boom Flight Demonstrator (LBFD) program. Todd has also worked on several other historic program’s including the NASA High Speed Research
(HSR), Boeing’s Delta II & III launch vehicle, DC-X (Delta Clipper), Ground-based Missile Defense (GMD) and High Endo-Atmospheric Defense Interceptor (HEDI).
Todd earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Colorado, Master of Science in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southern California, and a Engineer in Aerospace Engineering degree from the University of Southern California. He is also an Associate Fellow for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.
Ming Chang
2 October 2023
It is with a very heavy heart that we share Ming Chang, AIAA Aeronautics Domain Lead and AIAA Associate Fellow, passed away Sunday, 1 October 2023. Ming was a pioneer throughout his career in aeronautical engineering. Ming’s leadership driving AIAA to address the important challenges of the aeronautical world will be long remembered. His AIAA service is directly responsible for the Institute’s aeronautics domain leadership. Everyone at AIAA extends our deepest condolences to Ming’s family through this difficult time.
Ming Chang is an Aeronautical Engineer with 43 years in the aerospace industry specializing in the Flight Sciences area. His last 5 years were at General Atomics (GA) where he recently retired as the Senior Director of Flight Technologies overseeing Aero, Propulsion, CFD and Flight Controls/GNC activities. At GA he help publicize the GA brand name with the Predator product line, developed real time pilot-in-the-loop simulations for handling qualities assessment, assembled GA’s first remote flight test control room for Predator flight test monitoring and participation and developed capture strategies for CRADs such as ASAPTR and SkyBorg programs. Previous to GA he worked for Lockheed Martin (LM) managing the Aero, Acoustics and CFD group, was the Flight Sciences IPT lead for JASSM and Nano UAV program. Prior to leaving LM he was a Lockheed Martin Fellow specializing in Aeronautics. In that capacity he managed flow control programs for drag reduction such as Plasma flow control and the AFRL ESMC program. Through the various years Ming has had the luck to work on many ground breaking programs such as hybrid airship programs to hypersonic programs and from Nano UAVs to Predator Drones that are either flying today or have had successful demonstrations.