SFTE European Chapter

The 29^th SFTE European Chapter Symposium will be held at Delft University of Technology, at the premises of Faculty of Aerospace Engineering in Delft, The Netherlands from the 29^th to the 31^st of May 2018. The organization of the symposium is co-managed by the Netherlands Association of Aeronautical Engineers NVvL, the Delft University of Technology and the Netherlands Aerospace Centre NLR.

The symposium theme is “The Fewer Aircraft to Flight Test, the More Reason to Share Experience”

Please submit an abstract of your paper (not more than one page) describing objectives, best practices,
results and /or lessons learned from your experience.
Abstracts should be submitted using the symposium address: sfte-ec2018@nlr.nl.

Dear colleagues, finally 2017 has come to and end, and another new year lies down in front of us for the next 365 days.
We can now look behind what have been done in the last period.
Flight Test has been busy along last year in Europe. New Gripen model has started flight test, Airbus has managed the first flights of A330neo but also of A340 BLADE demonstrator for laminar wing in a very short period of time, and A400M continues the flight test campaign for the military capabilities.

We celebrated the 28th European symposium, in September. This time we have it in a completely new place for us. We made a joint event with the European Rotorcraft Forum. This time we relied on people from Politécnico de Milano, who made an outstanding work of preparation for the event.
General feeling, among participants, is that the event was a complete success, and for the first time Rotorcraft issues were the “trending topic” along all the presentations and discussions during the symposium.

We have been starting to use our new logo, after the selection process we had in 2016.

Right now we are working on the 29th European chapter symposium. This event will take place in Nederlands, under the host of NLR.
We will deliver shortly the new Call for Papers with all the details and information.

Finally we have managed to set up the rules for the “JESUALDO MARTINEZ” award. This award will have a two-year periodicity, it is expected that the first award will be delivered in 2019. We will keep you posted on these this and other developments through our web page.

Your participation in the society is key for the society itself. Please notice that our chapter is called “European”, but we are really a “non American” chapter.
Check your current membership, and if you notice that somebody that should be member is not, please let us know to check this out.

Expectations for this New Year are really high, and everything points towards a busy time for flight test activities.
Please receive our best wishes for the days to come in the name of the board of the European chapter.

Papers from the 28^th Annual SFTE EC Symposium are now available on the Papers section.

Also, a summary from the symposium can be found in the SFTE EC Symposia section.

The 28^th Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE) European Chapter Symposium will take place in Milano, Italy on September 13-15, 2017. This event is the premier forum dedicated to flight testing outside the U.S.A., bringing together professionals and researchers to discuss advances in the testing of flying vehicles
and systems at large.

The 2017 edition of the SFTE EC Symposium will be held in conjunction with the 43rd European Rotorcraft Forum (ERF). The ERF is a main event for the world’s rotorcraft community, held every year since 1975.

Registration is now open.

Read about the registration options on the combined www.erf2017.org page.

Dear Colleagues:

Year 2016 has finished and we are starting 2017.
It is time to review what has been done the past 365 days.

We had a very successful symposium in Nuremberg in May. We share the event with ETC, a good bunch of papers were presented, and people took the opportunity to share experiences and knowledge. Networking worked as good as always.

We had our own renewal with the selection of a new Logo. We have been using the old one since the very beginning, however the new media and communications needs asked for a more convenient design. Finally we got a winner, and a new design was born. We have already started to use it, and we hope that all the media work will be easier now.

I would like to recall here our two colleagues killed in an accident last 30 October: Pietro Venanzi and Herb Moran. They passed away in a helicopter accident.

Two American flight testers also perished in another helicopter testing accident in July 6th in United States. Our prayers and thoughts for them and their families.

28th European symposium is currently underway. A call for papers has been already delivered. This time we will share the event with the ERF (European Rotorcraft Forum) in September. We are looking forward for this new adventure and hoping we will have as usual many good histories and papers to be shared among the audience. The venue itself is exciting, as we are coming back to Italy, this time in Milan. Our colleagues at Politecnico de Milano, will provide us this time the support for this symposium. Thank you guys.

We are expecting for your contributions for this and all the other activities currently under way in the society.

The Board of the European Chapter wishes the best in the New Year for you and your families.

The 28^th Society of Flight Test Engineers (SFTE) European Chapter Symposium will take place in Milano, Italy on September 13-15, 2017. This event is the premier forum dedicated to flight testing outside the U.S.A., bringing together professionals and researchers to discuss advances in the testing of flying vehicles
and systems at large.

The 2017 edition of the SFTE EC Symposium will be held in conjunction with the 43rd European Rotorcraft Forum (ERF). The ERF is a main event for the world’s rotorcraft community, held every year since 1975.

Key Dates & Deadlines:

Find details for abstract submission in the

Call for Papers Flyer

More details about the symposium can be found in the flyer but also at the official symposium website www.erf2017.org

The SFTE EC is happy to announce that:
The 28^th SFTE European Chapter Symposium will be Co-organized with the 43^rd European Rotorcraft Forum – ERF 2017
Dates: September 12-15, 2017
Venue: Politecnico di Milano – Bovisa Campus, Milan, Italy

Call For papers and further information will be announced in the coming months.

During this year’s SFTE EC symposium the board of directors presented all proposals it received for the new-logo-contest.

Congratulations to Sebastian Burwitz, who was officially awarded on 29 June 2016 for winning the new-logo-contest 2016 of the Society of Flight Test Engineers – European Chapter. He submitted his proposal of a clear, compact, obvious, intuitive design. Sebastian’s proposal meets perfectly the announcement’s requirement to make reference to the original international SFTE logo. Furthermore, it clearly reflects the connection to Europe by making use of the iconic symbol of yellow stars on blue ground found in the European flag. The SFTE European Chapter’s board of directors expresses its gratitude to Sebastian’s great idea and honors his effort for a recognisable, easily understandable appearance we can be proud of.

Papers from the 27^th Annual SFTE EC Symposium is now available on the Papers section.

The Society of Flight Test Engineers European Chapter have an ongoing public contest for choosing a new Logo for the chapter.
The proposals should be in a vector or compound (e.g. svg or eps) image format.
Deadline for receiving the designs will be 1 st of May 2016.
The Design will have to contain or make reference somehow to the SFTE logo: