Katie Blake is a flight test engineer and company test pilot in the mission systems group at Genesys Aerosystems (a Moog company) in Mineral Wells, TX. She is responsible for the development, testing and certification of avionics and autopilot systems. Prior to this role, she was a systems development engineer in East Aurora, NY and supported her team as the technical lead for the actuation system on a military demonstrator aircraft. Prior to re-joining Moog, she worked at Boeing as a flight controls engineer where she coordinated integrated lab and flight testing as the team’s primary control law focal. She also supported onboard and telemetered flight tests and designed and reviewed performance and robustness tests for various control law functions.

Katie earned her bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from Georgia Tech in 2019. During her time there, she was the chair of SAESAC (2017-2019) and actively involved in the Yellow Jacket Flying Club, earning her instrument rating, commercial license, and flight instructor certificate. She also participated in undergraduate research, studied in Spain for two semesters and interned for five semesters. Her first two internships were as a Systems Engineer with Moog where she was a lead test operator in a full iron bird lab for safety of flight testing. Next, she interned with GE Aviation (now GE Aerospace) in casting technology and then in propulsion engineering. Before entering her senior year, she interned at Garmin as a Systems and Flight Test Engineer, performing software and autopilot development and certification tests in a variety of aircraft.

In her free time, Katie enjoys flying, any outdoor activity, cooking and spending time with her husband and two cats