Robert P. Johannes (born May 1934 in Moline, Illinois) is an aeronautical engineer noted primarily as one of the developers of the control configured vehicle (CCV) concept.[1] He won the Wright Brothers Medal in 1972 with Dwight Henry Bennett for the paper Combat Capabilities and Versatility Through CCV discussing its applications.[2]
Johannes received his Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and his Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology in 1961.[3] He then joined the Flight Dynamics Lab at Wright-Patterson AFB, where he worked on various defense-related and basic-science research projects, including self-adaptive control via the X-15 demonstrator in the early 1960s. He managed the LAMS program in the late 1960s and developed the concept of CCV in 1970–1974.[1][3] Johannes is also an avid amateur pilot, having earned the Soaring Society of America Silver Badge in 1975.