LEADERSHIP

Dale Goulding is a highly experienced engineer responsible for multiple clean-sheet aircraft development programs. His career work includes the Airbus A340-600, A380 and A350-XWB wing leading edge mechanical systems, as a structures integrator on the Bombardier C Series, and in recent roles, flight test as the structures lead engineer on the C Series, and then manager for systems. Dale’s team is responsible for certification support of all systems and interiors, and the operational support of flight test in Moses Lake.

Dale holds a bachelor’s degree in product design and manufacture from Brunel University in the UK, and has built and led multiple international inter-disciplinary teams.

A 26-year veteran in aerospace design, testing and certification, AeroTEC Vice President of Product Development Kent Baines is an engineering graduate of Washington State University. He began his career at Boeing, gaining experience as a design engineer on the 777 flight deck design team before joining the Boeing flight test instrumentation group and supporting initial type certification of the 777-200, the 737-700, and the 767 AWACS.

Kent went on to gain further certification knowledge at Bombardier where he contributed to the type certification of the DeHavilland Dash-8 400, the Canadair CRJ700, and the Lear Model 45 before joining Aviation Partners as a lead engineer in flight test.

At Aviation Partners, Kent supported winglet flight test programs for the Raytheon Hawker 800, Boeing 747-200, and the Boeing 737-300.

Kent partnered with Lee Human in 2003 to officially open the doors of AeroTEC, and is responsible for overseeing the company’s technical arm.