Mike Fremaux and David Storch—Flight Dynamics Research Facility
March 11, 11:30 AM
Building 2102, NACA Room and online via Teams
Due to a recent change in our speaker schedule, Charles M. (Mike) Fremaux and David B. Storch will be our guest speakers at the March 11 meeting and will be talking about the Flight Dynamics Research Facility. The FDRF is the latest facility to be constructed at Langley and will soon begin its research mission. Our previously-scheduled speaker, Linda Bangert, will be presenting her talk on The Ninety-Nines, Inc. International Organization of Women Pilots at a later date this year.
Mike Fremaux is currently the Chief Engineer for Intelligent Flight Systems Division of the Research Directorate. For most of his 36 years at Langley, Mike has been associated with the Flight Dynamics Branch as a researcher, assistant Branch Head, and Branch Head prior to being selected as IFS Division Chief Engineer in 2020. Under the category of “other duties as assigned,” he has served details as executive assistant to the Center Director in 2005, and as an Associate Director within the Research Directorate in 2011 and 2022. He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees from LSU, as well as a master’s degree from the George Washington University. Since 2015, Mike has been the Center lead for advocacy and development of the new Flight Dynamics Research Facility, the first major wind tunnel facility constructed by the Agency in over 40 years.
Dave Storch is a project manager in NASA Langley Research Center’s Projects and Engineering Branch, where he is responsible for the design, construction, and activation of complex aerospace research facilities. Prior to joining NASA in 2020, he was the base civil engineer and a project manager for the U.S. Coast Guard’s Yorktown Training Center. He’s an engineer officer in the Army Reserve, with expeditionary service with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and he has extensive employment in the commercial construction sector, as a superintendent and project manager on design-build projects for a large-scale general contractor. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the U.S. Military Academy and master’s degrees in national security management from the University of Maryland University College and strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College. Dave is currently the senior project manager for the design and construction of NASA’s newest wind tunnel, the Flight Dynamics Research Facility.
