SOLAR IMPULSE
Rogers Smith

FLIGHT TEST

Rogers Smith

Solar Impulse Advisor and Safety Monitor, with strong support of test operations. Assistant to Claude Nicollier, head of flight test operation.

 

“Flight Test is a Discovery Process”

ID

  • Solar Impulse Job Title: Flight Test and Flight Test Safety Advisor

 

CV

  • Retired in 2000, pursuing a career in consulting (EADS and DLR in Germany, Solar Impulse in Switzerland, Boeing Company, and USAF in the area of unmanned vehicles)
  • Research test pilot at NASA Dryden Flight Research Center in 1982 (X-29, AFTI F-16 and F-111, X-31, F-15 ACTIVE, F-18 and SR-71 aircrafts)
  • Test pilot, engineer and technical leader with the National Research Council of Canada (1963 to 1974), NASA Langley Research Center (1967), Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory/ Calspan (1968 to 1982)
  • Fighter pilot with the Royal Canadian Air Force and the United States Air National Guard (24 years)
  • Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Engineering Physics and Master’s degree in Aeronautical Engineering (University of Toronto)
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