Harry T. Jensen Award
Since 1986, the Society has given the Harry T. Jensen Award for an outstanding contribution to the improvement of vertical flight aircraft reliability, maintainability, and/or safety through improved design brought to fruition during the preceding year. Established by Sikorsky Aircraft, the award honors Harry Jensen’s contributions to enhance helicopter qualification, structural reliability and safety.
Award winners
2012 - COL Gregory Masiello, U.S. Marine Corps
2011 - Boeing Active Crash Protection System Development Team, consisting of The Boeing Company, the U.S. Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate, Honeywell, General Dynamics Ordnance and the University of Maryland
2010 - US Army Blackhawk Survivability Suite Team including members of the Army Utility Program Office, DARPA, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp., and Raytheon BBN
2009 - Army/Industry Apache Health Monitoring Team
2008 - ALERTS/Appareo Systems and Bristow Group
2007 - MDS Coating Technologies Corp.
2006 - Joint Advanced Health and Usage Monitoring System Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration Team
2005 - The Sikorsky UH-60 M Automatic Flight Control Team
2004 - NRTC/RITA Damage Tolerance Technology Team
2003 - NRTC/RITA and ARL-VTD Team for "Multi-Terrain Impact Safety"
2002 - Cockpit Air Bag System Development Team
2001 - NRTC/RITA Crash Safety and Navy Water Impact SBIR Teams
2000 - Boeing-Mesa Longbow Integrated Maintenance Support System Team
1999 - Boeing Apache Longbow IETM Team
1998 - The MH-47E Structural Usage Monitoring Systems Team
1997 - Sikorsky Cost Reduction Team
1996 - No Award Presented
1995 - Sikorsky Technical Support Services Team
1994 - U.S. Army Aviation Technical Test Center
1993 - The Teams of Bristow Helicopters/Westland Helicopters Ltd./ Helikopter Service A/S/Stewart Hughes Ltd.
1992 - Joseph P. Cribbins
1991 - James W. Turnbow, Ph.D.
1990 - James D. Cronkhite
1989 - Roy Fox
1988 - Intelligent Fault Locator Team, McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Co. U.S. Army's ARTA's AATD
1987 - Thomas Dixon
1986 - NAVAIR/Boeing Vertol Co. CH-46 Team