January 2008

Rick Cole
Appreciation Award
January, 2008, Cocoa Beach

For significant contributions in supporting CMH-17 efforts on the Damage Tolerance chapter. Tom has also written the new outline for the Defects, Damage, and Inspection chapter.

David Ostrodka
Appreciation Award
January, 2008, Cocoa Beach

For significant contributions as FAA Wichita overall leadership. David is retiring from the FAA.


Ric Abbott
Appreciation Award
January, 2008, Cocoa Beach

For contributions to the Building Block chapter.



Alisha Hutson
Appreciation Award
January, 2008, Cocoa Beach

This appreciation award goes to Ms Alisha Hutson from the University of Dayton Research Institute for her outstanding work in reducing, compiling, and presenting an enormous amount of mechanical property test data generated from titanium matrix composite (TMC) test samples. This data is critical in generating B-basis allowables on TMC's for potential use in aircraft structural design, which is the first time the handbook has accomplished this since the MMC group joined in the late 90’s.