Mark F. Mangelsdorf

Mark F. Mangelsdorf is the deputy chief engineer for the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator project at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. Appointed to this position in 2016, he supports the chief engineer to ensure the technical requirements of the project are met.

Experience

Previously, Mangelsdorf was project chief engineer for NASA’s Commercial Supersonic Technology project. He was part of a small team that kicked off the early days of the Low Boom Flight Demonstrator project in 2014, several years prior to when NASA awarded the contract to build the X-59 supersonic flight research aircraft.

Mangelsdorf came to NASA in 2003 as a contractor assigned to the Flight Loads Laboratory working on aerodynamic loads predictions. He was hired to a civil service position in 2004, continuing to provide aero loads predictions for multiple flight projects. In 2009, Mangelsdorf was selected project chief engineer for the Environmentally Responsible Aviation project.

Prior to coming to NASA, Mangelsdorf was at Gemini Technologies Inc. from 1992 to 2000, when he worked on airfoil, wing, propeller, and airplane design for general aviation and experimental aviation industries, as well as aero and fluid dynamic design for sailboats and race cars. Then from 2000 to 2003, he was involved in a range of aerodynamics, aero loads, performance prediction, and preliminary design tasks for Scaled Composites LLC in Mojave, California.

Education

Mangelsdorf earned a Bachelor of Science in aeronautical and astronautical engineering in 1992 from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.