AIRA - Aircraft Icing Research Alliance
2007 Research Implementation Forum (RIF)
The 2007 Research Implementation Forum (RIF) was held on Monday, January 8 in Reno, NV in conjunction with the AIAA Aerospace Sciences Conference.
Over 50 people attended the four hour session which constituted this 5th annual event. The highlights of the session were the two distinguished lectures by Bob Flemming of Sikorsky Aircraft and Mark Andrews of the U. S. government’s Joint Planning and Development Office (JPDO).
Mr. Flemming’s talk was on the topic of Helicopter Icing Certification while Mr. Andrews’ talk was dealt with the JPDO and Plans related to Improved Aviation Weather Forecasting.
Caption: Dave Marcotte (Canadian National Research Council), the current chairman of the AIRA Executive Steering Committee (ESC), presenting an appreciation plaque to Mark Andrews of the U.S. JPDO after his distinguished lecture.
In addition to the two distinguished lectures, four other presentations were offered:
- AIRA Overview and Update by Robert J. Shaw (NASA Glenn Research Center), outgoing AIRA ESC Chairman
- Forecasting and Remote Sensing of Hazardous Weather by George Isaac (Environment Canada)
- Propulsion System Icing by Jim MacLeod (Canadian National Research Council )
- Ice Adhesion and Shedding from Rotating Surfaces by Myron Oleskiw (Canadian National Research Council)
The AIRA ESC was extremely pleased with the 2007 RIF and has already begun to plan for RIF 2008, which will again be held in conjunction with the 2008 Aerospace Sciences meeting to be held in January 2008 in Reno, Nevada.
The AIRA RIF sessions are supported by the AIAA’s Atmospheric and Space Environmental Technical Committee (TC), and the AIRA ESC wishes to express its thanks to the AIAA TC for this continuing support.
