Award Recipients The title of TECHNICAL FELLOW is granted to Society The GROVER E. BELL AWARD is given for an outstanding members whose career-based accomplishments towards research and experimentation contribution to the field of the goals and objectives of the vertical flight community helicopter development brought to fruition during the constitute an outstanding technical achievement. Under preceding calendar year. The Grover E. Bell Award was award guidelines, up to four Fellows may be recognized in created by Larry Bell, founder of Bell Aircraft (now Bell any single year. Helicopter Textron) in 1957, in honor of his pioneering older brother, Grover E. Bell, who was killed in an aircraft crash in 1986 Philip Landi, Joseph Mallen, John Ward 1913. Eligible contributions include sub-systems as well as 1987 Dora D. Strother, Leonard M. (Jack) Horner systems. The award consists of a 3-inch gold medal 1988 William P. Brown, Lt. Gen Donald Pihl bearing the profiles of Lawrence and Grover Bell, a 1989 MG Ronald K. Andreson, Peter J. Arcidiacono, certificate, and a $250 honorarium. Peter Wright, Sr., Motoi Yoshiwaka 1990 Richard L. Ballard, Francis X. Caradonna, 1957 Kurt H. Hohenemser Norman B. Hirsh, Ray D. Leoni 1958 Leon L. Douglas 1991 Dean C. Borgman, Armand L. Coppe, Bruno 1959 Igor I. Sikorsky Lovera, Franklin D. Robinson, Sergei I. Sikorsky 1960 U.S. Army Aviation School, Ft. Rucker 1992 Bruce B. Blake, John (Jack) Diamond, Kenneth C. 1961 Sikorsky Aircraft, Engineering Team Mard, Dr. Michael P. Scully 1962 U.S. Army Aviation Center, Ft. Rucker 1993 James Davis, Nicholas C. Kailos, Frederic H. 1963 U.S. Army 11th Air Assault Division, Ft. Benning Schmitz, John Schneider 1964 No award presented 1994 Troy M.Gaffey, Wesley L. Harris, Nicholas D. 1965 Paul J. Carpenter Lappos, Marat N. Tischenko 1966 U.S. Air Force Air Rescue & Recovery Service 1995 Leo Dadone, Dr. John W. Leverton, James 1967 Edwin J. Ducayet & Bell’s HUEY/COBRA Team Satterwhite 1968 Sikorsky Aircraft, Flying Crane Concept 1996 Carl O. Albrecht, Dr. Inderjit Chopra, Frank L. 1969 AVLABS Jensen, C. Thomas Snyder 1970 Sikorsky Aircraft, S-67 Black Hawk 1997 Eugene Buckley, Stuart D. Dodge, Dr. William H. 1971 Boeing Vertol, Model 347 Team & Hughes Tool, “Bud” Forster, Albert L. Winn Engineering Team 1998 Kenneth J. Kelley, Ren Pierpoint, Dr. Daniel P. 1972 Jan M. Drees Schrage, Robert Wiesner 1973 No award presented 1999 Dr. Akira Azuma, Richard S. Stansbury, 1974 No award presented Frank Tarzanin, Jr., Theodore E. Dumont 1975 Thomas H. Sanders 2000 Dr. Thomas Brooks, Charles J. Isabelle, 1976 Sikorsky Aircraft, ABC Concept Takeshi Makino, Dr. Hans Mark 1977 U.S. Army Avn. Eng. Flight Activity 2001 Prof. Norman D. Ham, Hidehiko Obayashi, 1978 Hughes Helicopters, AH-64 Tech. Team & Dr. Robert A. Ormiston, Terry D. Stinson Sikorsky Aircraft, UH-60 Tech Team 2002 Samuel R. Hurt, David L. Key, Dr. Sergei 1979 Wesley L. Cresap Mikheyev, Dr. William G. Warmbrodt 1980 No award presented 2003 Jean-Francois Bigay, William G. Bousman, 1981 XV-15 Project Team Dr. Howard C. Curtiss, Jr., Dr. David A Peters 1982 Dr. Wayne R. Johnson 2004 Philip J. Dunford, Dr. Peretz P. Friedmann, 1983 Boeing Vertol Simulation Lab Dr. Dewey H. Hodges, Bruce F. Kay 1984 U.S. Army ATL, Ft. Eustis 2005 David O. Adams, Dr. Richard L. Bennett, 1985 Army Applied Technology Laboratories/Sikorsky Dr. Gopal H. Gaonkar, Dr. Arvind Sinha Aircraft ACAP Team 2006 Donald S. Antilla, Yoshiyuki Niwa, Dr. Wayne 1986 Franklin D. Harris, Bell Helicopter Textron Johnson and Dr. Chee Tung 1987 Boeing Vertol Company, U.S. Army Applied 2007 MAJ GEN Anthony P. Fraser, Dr. J. Gordon Technology Directorate Leishman, Dr. T. Kevin O’Brien, Dr. Mark Tischler 1988 Sikorsky Aircraft, UTC Systems Technology, Inc. 2008 Dr. Edward Smith, Dr. Michael S. Torok, Sandra 1989 Sikorsky Aircraft UTC (Shadow) Team Marie Hoff, Mark E. Dreier, Bernd Gmelin 1990 No award presented 2009 Dr. Robert F. Handschuh, Robert Moffitt, David 1991 Bell Helicopter Textron 4BW Team Matuska, Robert Flemming 1992 George T. Singley, III and the U.S. Army 2010 Dr. Samuel T. Crews, Dr. Peter F. Lorber, Dr. Rotocraft Centers of Excellence: Karen E. Jackson, Dr. David Haas, Thomas L. Georgia Institute of Technology, Wood University of Maryland, 2011 Harold Rosenstein, James Howlett, Dr. Feridoun Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute Farassat, David Popelka 1993 NASA Full Scale Aerodynamics Complex 2012 Prof. Lakshmi N. Sankar, Wayne R. Mantay, 1994 NASA Full Scale Aerodynamics Complex Martin Peryea, Robert Blackwell 1995 U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate & NASA Ames UH-60 Airloads Program 1996 Bell Helicopter Ducted Tail Rotor Team 1982 CPT Stephen Kee & CWO George Chrest, USA 1997 U.S. Army/McDonnell Douglas Helicopter 1983 John J. Shapley Systems Longbow Apache Team 1984 MAJ Edward C. Traasdahl, USMC 1998 Rotorcraft Industry Technology Association 1985 COL Robert L. Stewart, USA Health and Usage Monitoring System Team 1986 John S. Tulloch & A. Lynn Freisner 1999 Tiltrotor Aero-Acoustical Model Team 1987 U.S. World Helicopter Championship Team 2000 Rotorcraft Pilot’s Associate Team 1988 Charles A. Parlier & W. Edward Wilson 2001 Bell Helicopter Textron Inc. NASA, U.S. Army 1989 Nicholas Lappos Multipoint Adaptive Vibration Suppression Systems 1990 LT David R.McCormick, USCG Team 1991 U.S. Army B Co., 4th Battalion, 25th Aviation 2002 University of Maryland Alfred Gessow Rotorcraft Regiment Center 1992 U.S. Marine Corps HMH 461 2003 National Research Council of Canada Flight 1993 Leo Meslin & Dwayne Williams Research Laboratory 1994 U.S. Coast Guard Crew of HH-60J CG 6008 2004 MV22 Integrated Test Team 1995 Ray Eche, Doug Pense & Dave Wright, Era 2005 The Boeing Company Unmanned Little Bird Team Aviation 2006 Dr. Valentin Kloeppel 1996 Jon S. Dickens 2007 Manned/Unmanned Common Architecture 1997 No award presented Program, Phase II, (MCAP II) Team 1998 The Pilot Staff of the RAH-66 Comanche 2008 U.S. Army/NASA/Sikorsky UH-60M Upgrade Combined Test Team Flight Control Team 1999 Bell, Boeing, NAWCAD V-22 Tiltrotor Pilot Staff 2009 US Air Force/Arnold Engineering Development 2000 The NRTC/FAA/Industry DGPS Rotorcraft Center/National Full-Scale Aerodynamics Complex Precision Terminal Procedures Program Team 2001 The U.S. Coast Guard Seabreeze I Rescue 2010 3D-LZ Team Aircrews, North Carolina 2011 UH-60 Airloads Wind Tunnel Test Team 2002 U.S. Marine Corps 15th & 26th Marine 2012 Apache Block III Technology Development Team Expeditionary Units, Camp Rhino Insertion Aircrews Since 1961, the FREDERICK L. FEINBERG AWARD has 2003 Republic of China Air Force Super Blue Hawk been presented to the helicopter pilot or pilots of a vertical S-70) Rescue Crews flight aircraft who accomplished the most outstanding 2004 Roy Hopkins II achievement in the preceding year. It honors the memory 2005 Capt. Ryan Welch, U.S. Army & CW2 Justin of an outstanding helicopter test pilot and an exemplary Taylor, U.S. Army man. The award consists of a stipend ($200) , the 2006 U.S. Navy Blackhawks Squadron, HM-15 engraving of the recipient’s name on a plaque, and an 2007 Aircrew of Dustoff 57 – Operation Mountain Lion individual plaque. This award honors the memory of an 2008 Jennifer Murray and Colin Bodill outstanding helicopter test pilot and an exemplary person. 2009 Crew of Coast Guard Rescue Helicopter CGNR 2010 Roy Hopkins and Jeffrey S. Greenwood 1960 MAJ William G. Davis, USA & CPT Walter J. 2011 Kevin Bredenbeck, X2 Technology Demonstrator Hodgson, USAF 2012 Lt Scott F. Chirgwin, USN 1961 Link Luckett 1962 LTC F. M. Carney, USAF The AGUSTAWESTLAND INTERNATIONAL 1963 LT Robert W. Grafton, USN & CPT Louis K. Keck, HELICOPTER FELLOWSHIP AWARD is given for USMC significant contributions to international vertical flight 1964 Winford Alan Newton cooperation. Established in 1989, the award honors the 1965 COL George P. Seneff, USA memory of Paolo Bellavita, whose career at Gruppo Agusta 1966 Delford M. Smith was marked by his dedication to furthering international 1967 Robert G. Ferry cooperation in the world of vertical flight. The honoree 1968 CPT Jerome R. Daly, USA receives a scale replica of the award, a statue of Pegasus. 1969 Ronald L. Diggins 1970 1st LT Joseph P. Donovan, USMC 1989 John F. Zugschwert 1971 Louis M. Hartwig 1990 Ian C. Cheeseman 1972 LCDR Paul R. Lewis, USCG 1991 James Erickson, John J. Shapley, Robert Weaver 1973 Henry Whitfield and FAA Rotocraft Directorate Regulations Group 1974 Azel J. Hutto, Jr. 1992 Marat Tischenko 1975 MAJ Eugene L. Richardson, USA 1993 Sergei I. Sikorsky 1976 LCDR Joseph L Crowe, Jr., USCG 1994 U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate 1977 Ramon J. A. Gibson 1995 International Individual Blade Control Program 1978 LT James D Stiles 1996 Higher-Harmonic Control Aeroacoustic Rotor Test 1979 Walter J. Hodgson (posthumously) Program Team 1980 Dorman A. Cannon & Ronald G. Erhart 1997 Helmut Huber 1981 LT John P. Currier, USCG 1998 Barney O’Shea 1999 Somen Chowdhury 1996 Harold R. Alexander 2000 The S-92 International Development Team 1997 John Sprague 2001 International WAH-64 Apache Team 1998 David H. Snyder 2002 The Singapore Apache Team 1999 Allen H. Schoen 2003 NASA/Sikorsky/U.S. Army/ZFL Army UH-60 Black 2000 Dr. James A. Franklin Hawk Individual Blade Control Team 2001 Michael A. McVeigh 2004 No Award 2002 MG Michael A. Hough,USMC 2005 The Sikorsky/Canada National Research Council 2003 Harold J. Rosenstein Fly-by-Wire Research Team 2004 Paul M. Bevilaqua 2006 The Boeing/CIRA (Italian Aerospace Research 2005 Tommie L. Wood Center) Team 2006 No Award Presented 2007 The Bell/Agusta 609 Civil Tiltrotor Team 2007 No Award Presented 2008 Dr. Pietro Alli, AgustaWestland 2008 Dr. John Zuk (Posthumously) 2009 Sikorsky/PZL Mielec International Rotorcraft 2009 Philip J.