Primary Aerospace/Mechanical engineer for the 800 foot long Aeroballistic Research Facility (ARF) located at Eglin AFB in Florida. For ARF development, John Cipolla designed the free-flight instrumentation used to measure subsonic, supersonic and hypersonic projectile position, velocity, stability derivatives (CNa, CMa) and aerodynamic coefficients (Xcp, Cd, CL). Free-flight tests conducted in the ARF are used to validate innovative high speed projectile designs and related Computational Fluid Dynamics results. The ARF engineering design effort continues to have a direct positive impact on many Army, USAF and NASA projects. John Cipolla utilized the ARF to publish papers concerning the Interferometric analysis of a cone-cylinder-flare body in hypersonic flight and the analysis of slender missile configurations in supersonic flight.
 
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John Cipolla
Chief Aerodynamicist
AeroRocket and WarpMetrics