Information about the SFTE EC 2006 symposium

The 17th symposium of the SFTE EC will be held at the National Aerospace Laboratory NLR premises in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, from the 12th to the 14th of June 2006. The Netherlands Association of Aeronautical Engineers NVvL and National Aerospace Laboratory NLR are organizing the Symposium.

Papers and Program

In response to the Call for Papers a large number of good quality abstracts were submitted on the topic “Innovation in flight test engineering”. Abstracts were evaluated by the Program Committee of the symposium and the committee made a selection of papers to be presented at the symposium. Authors of abstracts have been notified of the selection of their paper or not. Authors are to submit their paper to the symposium secretary no later than 15 May 2006. The guidelines for writing the paper including a document template and the clearance for publication form and guidelines for the presentation were attached to the notification. The papers will be published on a CD Rom and on the SFTE EC website. Copies of the CD Rom will be distributed among the participants of the symposium at registration. Papers are presented orally during the symposium. The symposium language will be English.

The organization proudly presents an in our view very interesting program with the papers, the opportunities to meet other flight test engineers and the Technical Tour. Now is a perfect time to register (see below how)!

Location

The NLR premises in Amsterdam are located between the center of the city and Schiphol Airport on the outskirts of Amsterdam. The distance between the city center and NLR is 5 km and the distance between Schiphol Airport and NLR is 10 km. Travel information is provided below in Appendix A.

A technical tour will be organized to Stork Aerospace in Papendrecht as part of the program. Bus transport will be arranged for the tour.

Spouses Program

For Monday 12 June and Tuesday 13 June a limited spouses program will be offered. The idea is to jointly participate in sight seeing tours, a guided tour through the inner city of Amsterdam and a train tour through North Holland, accompanied by an English-speaking native Dutchman. Details have to be defined later and might (to a certain level) be tailored to wishes of the group (depending amongst others on the number of spouses signing in).

Hotels

Suggestions for hotel accommodation are provided in Appendix B. Some of the hotels can be booked for reduced price when mentioning being a guest of NLR. The internet is an alternative to provide the accommodation you search for, see for instance http://www.holland.com/amsterdam/gb/ or http://www.bhs.nl.

Registration

You are invited to register for the symposium by completing, signing and returning the Registration form. Early registration is asked for due to program planning reasons and encouraged by the availability of an "early bird" registration fee for registration before 15 May. The maximum number of participants is 100.

Information

Secretariat SFTE EC Symposium 2006
Attention of Mrs. Astrid Bredt
Email sfte@nlr.nl
Fax +31 (0)20-511 32 10
Tel +31 (0)20-511 36 51
Anthony Fokkerweg 2
1059 CM Amsterdam
The Netherlands

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