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This a provisional list of a very small proportion of the people involved in the design, development, testing, evaluation, and restoration of the YF-23 Prototype Air Vehicles. The effort was laudable and considerable, as was the sacrifice made by many to see this project through. Probably the most famous would be Paul Metz, who got a lot of publicity during the Dem/Val flying. Several of the people mentioned here feature in the DVD published by WCI. This website is largely dedicated to the efforts of these people. The list shows company names and people in the positions they held at the time, it is not meant to be current. Northrop merged with Grumman and McDonnell Douglas was absorbed by Boeing. Please contact us if you were involved and would like your name added to this list.


	Northrop
Thomas Jones	Chief Executive Officer, Northrop Corporation
Prof Robert R Sandusky Jr	First named Inventor & Co-Holder of US Patent Design D332,080 December 29 1992: YF-23A Advanced Tactical Fighter. Chief Engineer of the Northrop ATF Program for its entire duration, Manager of the Advanced Design Division, Co-Holder of the design patent on the F-20 Tigershark. Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, awarded AIAA Aircraft Design Award in 2006. The Citation: 'First named inventor of the F-20 Tigershark and YF-23A Advanced Tactical Fighter Prototype, Chief Engineer of the YF-23 and for significant involvement in the development of the YF-17'.
Del Jacobs	ATF Program Manager for preliminary design phase
Thomas Rooney	ATF Program Manager
A Titiriga	Deputy Engineering Manager
Yu Ping Liu	Chief Scientist, Co-Holder of YF-23 design patent
Walter E Fellers	Co-Holder of YF-23 design patent
Merle L Jager	Co-Holder of YF-23 design patent
William A Moore	Co-Holder of YF-23 design patent
John E Wolfe	Co-Holder of YF-23 design patent
Paul Tackabury	Manager of Flight Test
Paul Metz	PAV Test Pilot
Jim Sandberg	PAV Test Pilot
Dave Maurice	Crew Chief for PAV-1
Paul Berman	Senior Design Engineer
Burt Dicht	Lead Engineer
Stavros Olympios	Propulsion Integration
Allen Rockwell	Model Maker of RCS and windtunnel models
William Stillman	Avionics Integrity Program
Tom Wetherall	Configuration Lead for YF-23 Proposal Submittal


	McDonnell Douglas
Gerzy Johnston	Company President
James M Sinnett	Vice President, General Manager
Dr David E Spong	ATF Program Manager, Deputy Chief Engineer
Bill Lowe	PAV Test Pilot
John J Vencill	Software Engineering Process Group Leader

	USAF
Brig General James A Fain	ATF Program Director, Aeronautical Systems Division, AFSC, Wright Patterson AFB
Colonel Albert C Piccirillo	ATF Program Manager, Aeronautical Systems Division, AFSC, Wright Patterson AFB
Colonel Mike Press	cockpit design consultant
Major Ronald 'Taco' Johnston	PAV Test Pilot
Major Con Thueson	PAV Test Pilot

	Associates, Consultants and SubContractors
John Schupek	ATF PAV-2 Curator, Western Museum of Flight
Ed Ashley	PAV-2 restoration, Western Museum of Flight
Ed Levy	PAV-2 restoration, Western Museum of Flight
Michael Edwards	President of Halcyon Design, Vulnerability Assessment Consultant, design of circuit boards
Michael J Louderback	V System Composites, centre-fuselage fabrication
Tony Chong	display model maker, PAV-2 weapons bay photographer

Last updated 2010.

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