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Biography: David Kern is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School, with experience planning and flying hundreds of flight test missions for civil aircraft certification and military projects. He is an Associate Fellow, Society of Experimental Test Pilots and Member, Society of Flight Test Engineers. He was USAF F-16 project test pilot for the Collier Trophy-winning Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (AGCAS) and served as USAF Test Pilot School's director of operations, teaching all parts of the multi-engine and fighter curricula. In civil flight test, he was a flight test pilot for the Aircraft Certification Service with the Federal Aviation Administration, and is currently a flight test captain for a major airline. He holds a Master of Science in Flight Test Engineering and B.Sci. Electrical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics. He is an airline transport pilot with nine type ratings, a Certified Flight Instructor for instrument conditions, and has logged piloting time at the controls of over 80 different aircraft. His publications include "Flight Test Techniques for Active Electronically Scanned Array (AESA) Radar," "Accelerated Development of Flight Tested Sensors and Systems," and "Introduction to Fly-by-Wire Flight Control Systems: The professional pilot's guide to understanding modern aircraft controls."
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