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Wall of Honor Level:
Air and Space Friend

Honored by:

Mark Siegel spent 30 distinguished years with the Grumman Corporation, most as the director of Flight Sciences. He played key roles in the development of the X-29, A-6 Circulation Control Wing (CCW), Design 698 V/STOL, the Gulfstreams II & III, the Shuttle Training Aircraft (STA), the S-2T, the Advanced Tactical Fighter, and upgrades to the F-14, A-6, EA-6B, E-2, C-2, and EF-111.

His stewardship saw the development of a number of ground-breaking and enabling technologies:

Forward wing sweep, full authority digital fly-by-wire flight control, designed instability, active variable camber, and aeroelastic tailoring (X-29)

Advanced computational fluid dynamics (CFD) (Gurfstream HI wing)

The Coanda principle for powered lift (A-6 CCW)

In-flight reverse thrust, direct force control, and model-following (STA)

Propulsion technologies, IR detection and signature recognition

He advanced methods for transonic wing design, the prediction of buffet onset, and boundary layer control.

Mr. Siegel was a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received a corporate award for management excellence, a "Project Sterling" award, and served on the Grumman promotion review board and awards committee. He served on national American Institute of Aeronautics Astronautics (AIAA) and National Aeronautics and Space Administration committees, was a charter member and vice chairman of the SAE Aerodynamics Committee and chairman of its Awards Committee.

He appeared widely as a guest-lecturer, including the Naval Aviation Executive Institute for nine years. Mr. Siegel holds Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and is an Associate Fellow in the AIAA.