Stephen D. Stowe: Delta Air Lines Pilot: (PAT DIR) 1. Twenty-eight years experience in aviation and aerospace industry including 17 years in the Antelope Valley. 10,000 + hours in over 100 various aircraft types. 2. Commercial airline pilot based at LAX. Technical Advisor to the ALPA New Aircraft Certification Committee for fly-by-wire flight control systems. 3. Former Air Force fighter pilot, USAF Test Pilot School graduate, and test pilot at the Air Force Flight Test Center, Edwards AFB, CA. Deputy Commandant of the USAF Test Pilot School. Commanded the F-15 Combined Test Force. First USAF pilot to fly the F-15E Dual Role Fighter, tested P&FQ, 9G loads, flight controls, auto/manual TFR, LANTIRN Nav and targeting pods, avionics and weapon integration including IR Maverick and Laser Guided Bombs. F-15 C MSIP radar and AMRAAM development, F100, 220, 229 engine tests. Classified projects and numerous foreign aircraft evaluations. USAF Test Pilot School Instructor: Chief of Performance, Performance subjects and Human Factors academics instructor, A-7 and A-37 Departure/spin IP. Test Ops test pilot and IP. 4. Royal Air Force Research Test Pilot at the Aeroplane & Armament Experimental Establishment, RAF Boscombe Down, England. First American pilot to check out on the Tornado IDS and ADV fighters. Tested flight controls, P&FQ, auto/manual TFR, loads, avionics/weapons integration, weapons accuracy and store certs, AAR testing Victor and Vulcan tankers. Hawk war role version project pilot; tested Jaguar, F-4K/M, Buccaneer, Hunter, Jet Provost, and Bulldog aircraft. 5. Promoted below the zone to Colonel (O-6). Retired form the Air Force 1990. 6. Associate Fellow, Society of Experimental Test Pilots. Aerospace Technical Advisor to the California American Legion, 95 -97. Flight Test Engineering Delegation to Russia and Ukraine, 93. NATO Advisory Group for Aerospace Research and Development (AGARD) Avionics Council delegate, 85. Board of Directors, California Museum of Air & Space 94 -97. Member, Flight Test Historical Foundation, Air Force Association, AOPA, Soaring Society of America. 7. Graduate of the Air Force Academy, University of Illinois (Masters Degree, Civil Engineering), Air Force Pilot Training and numerous USAF, RAF, and Delta Air Lines formal aircraft training programs, USAF Test Pilot School, Air Command & Staff College, Air War College, and National War College. |
