July 2010
Larry Coulter
Distinguished Service Award
July, 2010
Distinguished Service Award for Larry Coulter presented by Peter Shyprykevich (July 2010)
First I will read what his Supportability Chair, Bud Westerman wrote in his behalf.
Larry Coulter has been able to integrate the ever changing Supportability Working Group into a well documented success story. During the last seven years, Larry’s leadership has been instrumental in improvements in the HDBK. Larry was right there with ideas to help designers and maintainers produce better products. Integrating supportability attributes across the other HDBK chapters will prove to be Larry’ legacy. Larry’s ability to referee heated discussions, keep the team on schedule, and promote industry and government participation will be missed. The entire CMH-17 team wishes him well in the next chapter of his life.
Now let me add a few words. When Larry took over the leadership of the Supportability Working Group he thought it would be an easy government job. I handed him a Supportability Chapter that almost complete and all that remained was to reconcile Greg Kress and Allen Fawcett. But we did not anticipate the coming of the Damage Tolerance and Durability train that derailed the chapter and broke it up into pieces, in fact the chapter became two chapters. Larry was stuck to put it back together for Rev. G. A job well done.It is my pleasure to present this Distinguished Service Award to Larry.
Carl Rousseau
Distinguished Service Award
July, 2010
Distinguished Service Award presented by Curt Davies (July 2010)
Dan Ruffner
Distinguished Service Award
July, 2010
Distinguished Service Award presented by Margaret Roylance (July 2010)
Dan Ruffner has personally written the most innovative sections of the M&P material (e.g. nested qual) and has gotten us within sight of putting industry materials specs in place for some of the newer handbook materials by stepping forward and drafting multiple iterations of these documents. He was able to break the logjam that was impeding progress toward this goal by recognizing and convincing others that at this point the perfect was the enemy of the good. If we succeed, it will be largely to his credit.
Tom Walker
Distinguished Service Award
July, 2010
Distinguished Service Award presented by Larry Ilcewicz (July 2010)
Mr. Tom Walker has supported CMH-17 as a Chairman for the Damage Tolerance Task Group for many years. Under Tom’s leadership, the task group meetings have always addressed topical issues of relevance to industry applications and included good attendance. His efforts resulted in many improvements to the original Damage Resistance, Durability and Damage Tolerance Chapter published for Revision F to Volume 3, as well as significant work on several other Volume 3 Chapters.
Starting in 2005, Tom supported the FAA in benchmarking industry practices for composite damage tolerance and maintenance through a series of working group meetings and workshops, requiring significant coordination with industry experts. The end result of Tom’s leadership in these areas has been major reorganization and numerous updates for the corresponding chapters of Revision G to CMH-17, including new content that was not publicly available in the past. In the interest of aircraft safety and certification, Tom’s interface with the FAA also helped link the CMH-17 Revision G content with new regulatory guidance materials on composite damage tolerance and maintenance.