Technical Fellows
Technical Fellowships are granted to Society members whose career-based accomplishments towards the goals and objectives of the vertical flight community constitute an outstanding technical achievement. Under award guidelines, up to four Fellows may be recognized in any single year.
Award winners
2012 - Prof. Lakshmi N. Sankar, Georgia Institute of Technology; Wayne R. Mantay, U.S. Army (Ret.); Martin Peryea, Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.; and Robert H. Blackwell Jr., Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
2011 - Harold Rosenstein, Chief Engineer, Advanced Mobility, Phantom Works, The Boeing Company; James Howlett, Chief Handling Qualities and Control Laws, Sikorsky Aircraft Corp; Dr. Fereidoun Farassat, Senior Theoretical Aeroacoustician, NASA Langley Research Center; and David Popelka, Manager Dyn-Aeromech & Loads, Bell Helicopter Textron
2010 - Dr. Samuel T. Crews, Aviation Engineering Directorate, US Army AMRDEC; David Haas, Naval Surface Warfare Center at Carderock; Dr. Karen E. Jackson, NASA Langley Research Center; Dr. Peter F. Lorber, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation; Tom Wood, Bell Helicopter Textron
2009 - Robert F. Handschuh, Robert Moffitt, David Matuska, Robert Flemming
2008 - Dr. Edward Smith, Dr. Michael S. Torok, Sandra Marie Hoff, Mark E. Dreier, Bernd Gmelin
2007 - MAJ GEN Anthony P. Fraser, Dr. J. Gordon Leishman, Dr. T. Kevin O’Brien, Dr. Mark Tischler
2006 - Donald S. Anttila, Yoshiyuki Niwa, Dr. Wayne Johnson and Dr. Chee Tung
2005 - David O. Adams, Dr. Richard L. Bennett, Dr. Gopal H. Gaonkar, Dr. Arvind Sinha
2004 - Philip J. Dunford, Dr. Peretz P. Friedmann, Dr. Dewey H. Hodges, Bruce F. Kay
2003 - Jean-Francois Bigay, William G. Bousman, Dr. Howard C. Curtiss, Jr., Dr. David A. Peters
2002 - Samuel R. Hurt, David L. Key, Dr. Sergei Mikheyev, Dr. William G. Warmbrodt
2001 - Prof. Norman D. Ham, Hidehiko Obayashi, Dr. Robert A. Ormiston, Terry D. Stinson
2000 - Dr. Thomas Brooks, Charles J. Isabelle, Takeshi Makino, Dr. Hans Mark
1999 - Dr. Akira Azuma, Richard S. Stansbury, Frank Tarzanin, Jr., Theodore E. Dumont
1998 - Kenneth J. Kelley, Ren Pierpoint, Dr. Daniel P. Schrage, Robert Wiesner
1997 - Eugene Buckley, Stuart D. Dodge, Dr. William H. "Bud" Forster, Albert L. Winn
1996 - Carl O. Albrecht, Dr. Inderjit Chopra, Frank L. Jensen, C. Thomas Snyder
1995 - Leo Dadone, Dr. John W. Leverton, James Satterwhite
1994 - Troy M.Gaffey, Wesley L. Harris, Nicholas D. Lappos, Marat N. Tishchenko
1993 - James Davis, Nicholas C. Kailos, Fredric H. Schmitz, John Schneider
1992 - Bruce B. Blake, John (Jack) Diamond, Kenneth C. Mard, Dr. Michael P. Scully
1991 - Dean C. Borgman, Armand L. Coppe, Bruno Lovera, Franklin D. Robinson, Sergei I. Sikorsky
1990 - Richard L. Ballard, Francis X. Caradonna, Norman B. Hirsh, Ray D. Leoni
1989 - MG Ronald K. Andreson, Peter J. Arcidiacono, Peter Wright, Sr., Motoi Yoshiwaka
1988 - William P. Brown, Lt. Gen Donald Pihl
1987 - Dora D. Strother, Leonard M. (Jack) Horner
1986 - Philip Landi, Joseph Mallen, John Ward