G. Douglas Baldwin is a founder of Baldwin Technology Company, LLC and inventor of the Mono Tiltrotor. Before engaging with the US Government in contracted research and development (R&D) work, Mr. Baldwin...
...achieved success in academia, the military, and in business. Mr. Baldwin earned degrees in aerospace engineering and mathematics from the University of Texas at Arlington, and an MBA from the New York University Stern School of Business. He served four years at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base as an officer in the Advanced Tactical Fighter System Program Office during the program's conceptual stage. He was employed for 10+ years with International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), and then became Eastern US Region Sales Director for Hitachi Data Systems. Mr. Baldwin also has direct experience working with and for small entrepreneurial companies.
Under prime contracts to the US Government for Mono Tiltrotor (MTR) R&D for each year since 2003, Mr. Baldwin plans the work, organizes the subcontractors, develops the integrated master schedule (IMS), project manages to the IMS, and develops the Government required deliverables. Mr. Baldwin also participates in technical execution. Specific hands-on technical activities for which he led the work and performed technical execution include the following:
- Design, construction, and flight test of the MTR subsystem functional demonstrators, including demonstrations of the pitch axis suspended load, aerodynamically deployed wing panels, and tilting centerline rotor.
- Initial quantitative evaluation of MTR Scaled Demonstrator (MTR-SD) longitudinal stability based on first principals, which was subsequently validated by Bell Helicopter using their comprehensive rotorcraft analysis codes.
- Development of the software tools to streamline the MTR-SD outer mold lines using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) techniques, and application of those tools to produce CFD grids and a streamlined configuration. These results were replicated by an independent authority using industry validated CFD codes.
- Development of the graphical software tool for specifying a multibody dynamic model in MBDyn, and then executing those MBDyn models in soft realtime with pilot-in-the-loop.
Mr. Baldwin holds multiple patents fundamental to the Mono Tiltrotor innovation, and has authored and co-authored Government reports, professional conference papers, and briefings for each stage in the MTR development process. He cofounded the company with his wife, Nancy Baldwin. They have two children and live in Port Washington, NY.
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