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Major Christin Voor

Instructor of Aeronautics

Department of Aeronautics

Maj Voor
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(719) 333-2279

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Bio

USAFA class of 2008 (Choose your fate!), Astro Major, Varsity Cheerleader

2010 MIT AeroAstro

2011 ENJJPT

2012 B-52

2014 Pacific power projection in the continuous bomber presence

2016 USAF Test Pilot School

2017 419th Bomber Flight Test B-52

2018 C-12 Flight Test and Mishap Safety School

2019 Joint operational and developmental flight test for moving map and hypersonics at Barksdale

2020 HQ AFGSC Branch Chief and flying staff tour

Wife and Mother, continued bomber test flying while pregnant and nursing, advocate for fly moms

National Champion Varsity Collegiate Cheerleader, 92 appearances/year, 2008 Spirit of the Academy and 2005 100% Awards

Math Coach for pre-algebra through calculus, Teacher for Rite of Christian Initiation for Adults and Youth Confirmation, Choir

Advanced Open Water and Nitrox SCUBA Certified, Reefer/Salt Water Aquariust, 244-gallons, 26 corals, 22 fish, 67 crustaceans

100% on Air Force Fitness Test and Air Force Academy 500 Club Member, Certified Physical Training Leader Fitness Assessor

Tough Mudder 2012, 200-mile Ragnar Relay, 2010, Beach to Bay Relay Marathon 2009, Midsummer Munro ½ Marathon 2007

Features

ENJJPT & Flight Test Radio Interview, 97.7 KAFA The Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, 14 Sep 2022

STEM Panel to 1,071 basic cadets class of 2026, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, 2 Aug 2022

Daedalians Falcon Flight 11 Guest Speaker, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, 12 May 2022

Mentored Aerial Tow Rehookup, pitch to Spark-tank, afwerx, 4 Mar 2022

99s Colorado Chapter Guest Speaker, Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum, Colorado, 12 Feb 2022

af_aero Instagram, U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado, 14 Sep 2021

Boy Scouts of America Guest Speaker, Bossier City, Louisiana 20 Mar 2021

Women in Aviation International Guest Speaker, Houston, Texas 12 Mar 2021

Daedalians Guest Speaker, Air Force Test Pilot School, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana 17 Sep 2020

Rotary Club Guest Speaker, Air Force Test Pilot School, Shreveport Convention Center, Louisiana 18 Feb 2020

Slattery, Chad, Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Magazine, U.S. Air Force B-52 Test Pilot, Maj. Christin ‘Sparta’ Hart: Launching the future

from a 60-year-old bomber, pg. 112, Nov 2020

AFCEA Armed Forces Communications & Electronics Assoc Speaker, Air Force Test Pilot School, Bossier City, Louisiana 15 Jan 2020

Carr, Jessica, http://bebossier.com/2020/01/reaching-new-heights-barksdale-afb-resident-becomes-first-female-b-52-test-pilot/

Bossier City, Louisiana, 13 Jan 2020

Bennett, Susan, Cockpit Magazine, Member, Lancaster, California, Winter 2019

Cochran, Patty, St. Jude Spotlight: Christin Hart Voor, Bread for the Journey, Benton, Louisiana, 1 Nov 2019

Teachers’ Workshop Instructor Pilot, Women in Aviation International Conference, Long Beach, California, 14 Mar 2019

Airfoce.com/originstory, Origin Story Commercial, aired nationwide, 268M impressions, Edwards AFB, California, 1 Feb 2019

Airfoce.com, Women Airforce Service Pilots iconic heritage photo recreation, Edwards AFB, California, 1 Feb 2019

Northrop Grumman VERITAS, Veteran’s Day Women in the Military Panelist, Plant 42, Palmdale, California, 14 Nov 2018

Aviation Career Day Speaker and C-12 Tour guide, California Aeronautical University, Bakersfield, California, 1 Nov 2018

Keynote Speaker, Fox Field Antelope Valley Girls in Aviation, Lancaster, California, 8 Sep 2018

Barksdale.af.mil, Innovation Episode, Bringing the Future Faster, Barksdale AFB, Louisiana, 11 May 2018

Distinguished Alumnus, Clear Creek Education Foundation Gala, https://vimeo.com/242998365, Houston, Texas, 4 Nov 2017

Litant, William, MIT AeroAstro Department Communications, Exhibit of Alumni, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Feb 2016

Adams, Cristina, Local Houston Magazine, The Right Stuff, pgs. 44-45, Houston, Texas, Feb 2016

North Dakota Living Magazine, featured article, Bismarck, North Dakota, Feb 2016

Hall, Apryl, Northern Sentry Newspaper, 5 BW Airmen Chase Lifelong Dreams, Minot AFB, North Dakota, 25 Dec 2015

Ogden, Eloise, Minot ND Daily Newspaper, Dreams Do Come True, Minot, North Dakota, 13 Dec 2015

Glaesmann, Stacey, The Citizen Newspaper, Clear Lake Alum Shoots for the Stars, Houston, Texas, 1 Dec 2015

Mentor for Marianas High School aeronautical team, Champions of Real World Design Challenge, Saipan, 15 Nov 2015

Futures Magazine, Aiming for the Stars, pgs. 26-27, todaysmilitary.com, Oct 2015

Pitts, Lauren, Minot ND Daily Newspaper, Training Pilots in Survival, Minot AFB, North Dakota, 23 Nov 2014

Pitts, Lauren, Northern Sentry Newspaper, Faith in Training, Minot AFB, North Dakota, 21 Nov 2014

Veteran’s Radio Show Interview, Women in Aviation, Minot, North Dakota, 2 Nov 2014

Keynote Speaker for Girls Lead the Way and Workshop Speaker, Space Exploration, Society of Women Engineers, Girls Lead the

Way Conference, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado, 8 Feb 2014

Deters, Jessica, Oredigger Newspaper, Girls Lead the Way, Golden, Colorado, 9 Feb 2014

Negroni, Christine, The Crash Detectives, Penguin, 2015

Women Airforce Service Pilots Reunion Escort, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, June 2012

Negroni, Christine, Mapping the Intersection of Mind and Computer, blogspot.com, 15 Jun 2010

San Antonio Weddings Magazine, Finding the Perfect Fit, pgs. 258-259, July – August 2012

Women Airforce Service Pilots Museum Grand Opening Volunteer, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, Texas, June 2005

American Cheerleader Magazine, Featured Cheerleader, pg. 79, Oct 2005 and Squad of the Month, pg. 94, Oct 2002

Education

Air Force Academy Class of 2008 Astronautical Engineering

MIT S.M. AeroAstro Engineering 2010

USAF Test Pilot School Class 16B Experimental Test Pilot Course

Professional Experience

Flight Test Experience: USAF Test Pilot School Class of 16B, Experimental Test Pilot Course

Bomber-Tanker Certifications: B-52 and KC-46, B-52 and Australian KC-30

First Live Launches from B-52 Bay: Laser-Guided Bomb, Wind Corrected Munitions Dispenser, Quick Strike Mine,

Miniature Air-Launched Decoy, and Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile baseline and extended range variants

Nuclear Weapon System Evaluation Program, 9 Nuclear Generations, and test of NORAD Air Defense System

Captive Carry: Bomber Software display design, first power-on of all stations on Conventional Rotary Launcher

C-12 Kingair: photo chase of first flight of Korean Global Hawk, iNET telemetry, experimental parachutes

T-38: experimental aircrew flight equipment under sustained g-forces

Selected for Air Force Scientific Advisory Board Technical Writer 2021; consolidated B-52 weapons tech orders

FAA Ratings: ATP, CFI 3603895, CFI, CFII, MEI 3603895, Multi-engine land, Single-engine land and sea

Air Force Aeronautical Rating: Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training 2011

Honors & Awards

2021 MAJCOM Div FGQ 1Q21 (#1/47)

2020 General Vaught Visionary Leadership Award, Air Force Winner (#1/13,934)

2020 & 2016 Air Force Astronaut Nominee to NASA (top 300 of 18,000 Americans)

2017 State of Texas Resolution: Distinguished Alumni Award Clear Creek Education Foundation

2016 Top Pilot Team GLOBAL THUNDER Nuclear Exercise Minot AFB, North Dakota (#1/20)

Wg FGO 3Q19 (#1/263), Gp Div CC 2019 & 4Q19 (#1/60), Sq Div CC 2019 & 2Q19 (#1/7)

Gp CGO 4Q14 (#1/163), Volunteer 4Q14 & 2Q13, Sq CGO 1Q14 (#1/89)

2012 1 of 25 Officers, Lindell Mabus B-52 Formal Training Unit Leadership Award

2008 1 of 1 graduates in the Top 100 in all 3 areas and on the Superintendent’s List all 8 semesters

2007 Dean’s Ace, 1 of 21 cadets out of 4,355-member cadet wing to earn perfect 4.0 GPA

2008 #1 of 50 Research Writers, USAF Academy Graduate Studies Board

2008 #1 Engineering graduate in the state, Colorado Engineering Council medal recipient

2004 Wellesley College Book Award for top female graduate

Research and Scholarly Interests

FalconSAT-3 attitude determination and control system using gravity-gradient stabilization

MIT Humans and Automation Lab vigilance in human supervisory control of networked unmanned vehicles and advanced astrodynamics

Long-duration G-forces in the T-38 to develop aircrew flight equipment to warn of G-LOC and hypoxia

Keeping the B-52 flying for over 100 years

Publications

Hypersonics, Air-launched Rapid Response Weapon Instrumented Measurement Vehicle #1 Integration Test and Eval, Mar 2019

Aerial Refueling Safety Package Project Pilot, KC-30A/B-52H Coalition Tanker: Boom Sensor Fault Test Strategy, 27 Jul 2018

USAF Test Pilot School Test Management Project, Have Puffin: Experimental Testing of Aircrew Flight Equipment in Fighter

Aircraft, May 2019

Interacting with Computers Journal Article, Boredom and Distraction in Multiple Unmanned Vehicle Supervisory Control, Oxford

University Press, 2013

MIT Master’s Thesis in Aeronautics and Astronautics, Assessing the Impact of Low Workload in Supervisory Control of

Networked Unmanned Vehicles, Jun 2010

Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Journal Article, The Role of Human-Automation Consensus in Multiple Unmanned

Vehicle Scheduling, Feb 2010

American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Conference Paper, Assessing Operator Workload and Performance in

Expeditionary Multiple Unmanned Vehicle Control, Jan 2010

Astronautical Sciences Journal Article, Attitude Determination for FalconSAT 3 Using Kalman Filtering, May 2008

AIAA Conference Paper, Attitude Determination for UoSAT Using Kalman Filtering, Apr 2008 (Region V 1st Place)

AIAA Conference Paper, Achieving Gravity-Gradient Stabilization for FalconSAT 3, Apr 2008

NASA Flight Controllers Robotics Console Handbook Section, Dexterous Handling Targets, Jul 2003 (Age 17)