American Helicopter Society
Penn State Chapter

Joint Heavy Lift Requirements and Concepts at Boeing

Pictures from the meeting.

For the fourth AHS meeting of the 2005-2006 year we were pleased to have Dan Newman, the Program Manager for Boeing's Joint Heavy Lift Rotorcraft program come to Penn State to speak to us. His topics included discussion of the government procurement process, Boeing's work on two possible heavy-lift rotorcraft, and the overall company strategy of diversifying so that they can compete in any heavy-lift category. Lessons learned on the commercial side of the business such as large-scale filament winding for the 787 fuselage will be applied to the devlopment of the next generation heavy lift rotorcraft.

Mr. Daniel Newman is a Technical Fellow of The Boeing Company in Configuration Development. He works in the Advanced Rotorcraft Systems organization as the Program Manager for Boeing Joint Heavy Lift activities since February of 2004.

Dan formerly served as the Air Vehicle Integrated Product Team Lead for the UCAR Unmanned Combat Armed Rotorcraft contract; the IPT Lead for the Comanche Full Scale Radar Cross Section Test Model; the Configuration Design lead for a number of Proprietary advanced technology development and demonstration efforts; and the Manager of the Boeing Helicopters Preliminary Design Department.

Dan is also an Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University and his Masters in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland.

He is the Deputy Director for Vehicle Design of the American Helicopter Society and serves on National Academy of Sciences Transportation Resource Board Committees.