{"id":21,"date":"2015-01-13T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2015-01-13T22:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/psaa.meil.pw.edu.pl\/wordpress\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2019-05-16T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T15:02:07","slug":"hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/psaa.meil.pw.edu.pl\/?page_id=21","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"

HANS FRANKE<\/h3>\n

H. Franke Honorary Membership<\/a><\/p>\n

FRED ABBINK<\/h3>\n

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Fred Abbink graduated in Electrical Control Engineering at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Technical University Delft in January 1968. After serving as an officer in the Royal Netherlands Navy, he joined NLR in October 1969 as a project engineer \/ project leader in a number of avionics projects: NLR\u2019s moving base flight simulator, SpaceLab, navaid calibration \/ flight inspection system for the NL ANSP, airborne computer based flight testing system for the Fokker 50\/100 evaluation and certification.<\/p>\n

In 1981 he became head of NLR\u2019s flight testing and helicopters department, responsible for NLR\u2019s laboratory aircraft, helicopter research, avionics research, military operations research and accident investigation. In the same year, he was appointed as part-time professor in aircraft instrumentation and avionics at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of the Technical University Delft.<\/p>\n

In 1988 he became Technical Director of NLR, responsible for the government funded research programmes and the development of NLR\u2019s large test and evaluation facilities, international cooperation and quality management. From 1996 to1998, he was detached from NLR to become Programme Director Aeronautics at the German Aerospace Center \u2013 DLR, in Cologne. There he was responsible for all of DLR\u2019s in-house aeronautics research programmes. In 2005 he became General Director of NLR.<\/p>\n

Mr Abbink has been a visiting professor at the Institut Technology Bandung in Indonesia in 1983 and 1989, the National Aerospace Laboratory \u2013 NAL (now JAXA) in Japan in 1992, and the Technical University in Helsinki in 1999. From 2006-2008 he was President of the International Council for the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) and chair or member of a
\nnumber of supervisory boards and committees, including DNW, ETW, AIAA, EU-TAG, EREA, ICAS, VKI, ANAE, ACARE.<\/p>\n

After his retirement at the end of 2009, he remained very active in the field of Aerospace including a position as President Commissioner at the firm NEDAERO, Chairman of the Netherlands Foundation CompoWorld and chairman of the Netherlands Association for Aeronatical Engineers (NVvL). He is also member of various advisory boards for: the EU CleanSky Scientific and Technology Advisory Group (STAB), the EU SESAR Scientific Board, the board of the Von Karman Institute (VKI) , the Strategic Advisory Council of TNO Integral Safety and Security, the Programme Council of the Netherlands Space Office (NSO), the Royal Netherlands Association for Aviation (KNVvL), the Programme Committee van ICAS, the Board of the Council of European Aerospace Societies (CEAS) and the EU November 2009 3 of 3 Transport Advisory Group (EU TAG). Furthermore he is a member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (AcTI).<\/p>\n

Mr Abbink is an Officer in the Order of Oranje Nassau, Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Honorary Fellow of the International Council for the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS, Fellow of the French Acad\u00e9mie de l\u2019Air et de l\u2019Espace (ANAE), Member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation, and Honorary Member of the TU-Delft Aerospace Students Association Leonardo Da Vinci.<\/p>\n