Mr
Mark
Pilling
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Mark Pilling is a retired Naval Flight Officer with over 3,500 hours in P-3, F/A-18, T-45 and EA6-B aircraft, with an additional 250 hours in Pioneer UAV as both a Mission Commander and Internal Pilot. Upon retirement in 2003, he joined SAIC as a Program Manager and Senior System Analyst. Mark was instrumental in the X-47B demonstration program, assisting in the development, integration, and testing of the carrier-based command and control systems and the tanker based A3R system. Mark continues developing and testing advanced aerial refuelling system concepts with his support of the Navy’s Fuel Containment and Unmanned Carrier Aviation program offices.
Information provided is current as of June 2018
From the Author
Standardizing Automated Air-to-Air Refuelling
Considerations for a NATO Concept of Operations
By Mr
Steve
McLaughlin
By Mr
Ba
Nguyen
By Mr
Mark
Pilling
By Mr
Phillip
Weber
Researchers have been studying the possibility of refuelling aircraft without a human at the controls for nearly two decades. Finally, that research is coming to fruition. In 2007, an Automated Aerial Refuelling Demonstration (AARD) achieved [...]
