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CONVENTION PREVIEW
Featured| Speakers
Sept. 1-4
Mark Wolper
Master of Ceremonies
Mark Wolper is an MMOPA member and has been a pilot since 1979. He previously owned a Saratoga, but now has owned a Malibu for the past 13 years. He’s also a member of AOPA and EAA and is actively involved
with Angel Flight West where he has been the chairman of the Endeavor Awards Gala. In addition, he often flies for Doctors Without Borders into Mexico. He has accumulated 3,500 hours of flying time in his career.
He is president of the Wolper Organization, a media produc- tion company that has produced more than 500 films, which have won more than 150 awards including 2 Oscars, 50 Emmys, five Peabody’s to name a few.
Fred Hyman Memorial Lecture
Tammie Jo Shults
Captain Tammie Jo Shults is a former Southwest Airlines pilot and the captain of the crippled Southwest
f light 1380, which made an emer- gency landing in Philadelphia after
an unexpected engine failure and rapid depressurization. This year, 2020, marked the end of Captain Shults’ incredible journey with Southwest Airlines. She took her final commer- cial flight in September of 2020, a moment she regards, “was bittersweet.” Captain Shults became an aircraft carrier quali- fied naval aviator and earned her wings at Naval Air Station Beeville, Texas. She then served as a flight instructor in the T-2 Buckeye before going on to fly as an electronic aggressor pilot in the A-7 Corsair and then the F/A-18 Hornet. She was one of the first females qualified to fly the Hornet. Captain Shults also holds a split degree in PreMed and Agribusiness from MidAmerica Nazarene.
Although her chapter as a commercial pilot came to a close in August of 2020, Captain Shults continues to fly her Piper Malibu, serve as a volunteer pilot, and has assumed the role, alongside her husband, Dean, as board members of the nonprofit organizations, Angel Flight, South Central and the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii. Tammie Jo also serves on the Naval Aviation Museum Foundation Board and the Women in Aviation Advisory Board to the FAA.
Nashville, TN
Dr. Scott Glaser
Senior Vice President,
Flight Research, Inc.
Dr. Glaser has been actively involved in aerospace, whether flying single- engine aircraft or dropping space- ships for Virgin Galactic, for his entire life. Dr. Glaser has been
actively involved in aerospace, whether flying single-engine aircraft or dropping spaceships for Virgin Galactic, for
his entire life.
This further led to a professional career in flight testing in both the aircraft and commercial space industries. He has conducted flight testing over a multitude of engineering disciplines and vehicles and worked with several interest- ing programs including Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo, the F-22 Raptor, Lockheed Skunk Works, and the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) to name a few.
Scott also has extensive experience in aerospace physiology as well working with high-performance centrifuge-based flight simulators at the National Aerospace Training and Research (NASTAR) Center. The study of physiology led to several papers and projects including specializations in Upset Recognition and Recovery Training (URRT), includ- ing efforts with NASA. This work culminated in a U.S. Patent on a specialized method for URRT and Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Drexel University.
Most notably, Dr. Glaser has been an active contributor to the commercial spaceflight industry. As lead Flight Test Engineer for SpaceShipTwo at The SpaceShip Company, Scott acquired over 50 hours of flight time as an engineer aboard the mothership aircraft, WhiteKnightTwo. He has dropped the Spaceship and was honored to be on board WhiteKnightTwo for the second rocket-powered flight of SpaceShipTwo. Dr. Glaser was also the lead for passenger cabin testing of the spaceship. In so being he conducted a number of tests in the physiologic and operational factors concerning taking passengers to space.
This all led to his current position as Senior Vice President of Operations and Instructor Pilot for Flight Research, Inc and the International Flight Test Institute overseeing the operations of a fleet of 44 aircraft of 22 types from Cessna’s to rotorcraft to jets like the MB-326 Impala. The companies provide professional flight testing, test pilot training,
and advanced pilot training. One of the companies’
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