Stormy Boudreaux, Former SR-71 and U-2 Pilot, to give talk

Native of New Orleans, LA, Stormy Boudreaux earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology and Education from Tulane University and a Master of Science in Aeronautics from Embry Riddle. Served 24 years in US Air Force as Command Pilot, Standards and Evaluation Pilot and Functional Test Pilot, flew F-4, T-38, T-33, U-2 and SR-71 with over 6,000 hours. He is one of only twelve pilots who have flown operational sorties in both U-2 and SR-71 aircraft. With 680 hours combat time, combat veteran of Vietnam, Lebanon, Granada and Desert Storm operations. He retired from USAF in 1992, after commanding the U-2 detachment at Howard AB, Panama.

Following military retirement, for several years owned and operated a Art Gallery/ Framing store in Yuba City CA, then was employed by Northrop Grumman for work on B-2. In 1995 began work with Lockheed Martin’s “Skunk Works”, primarily on U-2 program, where he was part of 3-man team that designed, integrated and then tested the “glass cockpit” for the U-2 and was the “chair” of the U-2 Cockpit Working Group. In 2003, he transitioned to LM Fort Worth on the F-35 Lightning II program. Currently is a member of LM’s Simulator and System Integration Laboratory Pilot-Vehicle-Interface Team, which has responsibility for the design of the F-35 cockpit. Since the design is nearly solid, his current primary position is Test Director and F-35 Instructor Pilot in the Partner Manned Tactical Simulation, teaching the F-35 Block 3 capabilities to US, Partner nation, and Foreign Military Sales pilots.

He is a widower, of the late Lana Wray Boudreaux, with 5 children and 5 grand children. Hobbies are woodworking and sports cars.