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IMMEDIATE December 4, 2003	L. Kim Smith (703) 684-6777

Professor Barnes W. McCormick, Jr. is Awarded the 2004 AHS Alexander A. Nikolsky Honorary Lectureship

Alexandria, VA --AHS Executive Director M. E. Rhett Flater announced today that Professor Barnes W. McCormick, Jr. has been selected to receive the Alexander A. Nikolsky Honorary Lectureship. The Lecture will be delivered at the 60^th AHS Annual Forum and Technology Display in Baltimore, Maryland during its June 7-10, 2004 meeting.

The Lectureship is awarded to "an individual who reflects the highest ideals, goals and achievements in the field of helicopter and V/STOL aircraft engineering and development." In winning the award, McCormick joins the ranks of previous distinguished Nikolsky recipients including Troy Gaffey, Richard M. Carlson, Howard C. Curtiss, Jr., Daniel P. Schrage, David Jenney, Evan Fradenburgh, Kenneth I. Grina, Robert R. Lynn, Rene Mouille, Alfred Gessow, Bartram Kelley, Robert Huston and Bruno Lovera.

Professor McCormick is currently the Boeing Emeritus Chair Professor of Aerospace Engineering at Pennsylvania State University. His long and distinguished career began at Penn State where he received his doctorate in 1954 from the Dept. of Aeronautical Engineering. He joined the Vertol Aircraft Corp. in 1955 and was named Chief of Aerodynamics. In 1957, he was appointed head of the Dept. of Engineering at Wichita State University. He returned to Penn State in 1959 and after ten years was named Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering. In 1990, he officially retired from Penn State but he remains as a consultant and continues to teach occasional courses.

He is well known in the aeronautical engineering community as the author of two texts, Aerodynamics of V/STOL Flight and the widely used reference book Aerodynamics, Aeronautics and Flight Mechanics. Professor McCormick has also published approximately 50 technical papers in the field of propeller theory and helicopter aerodynamics. His accomplishments also include the fact that he is a private pilot with an instrument rating. He was formerly the Associate Editor for the AIAA's Journal of Aircraft as well as the Editor of the Journal of the American Helicopter Society

The Society has benefited in many ways from Professor McCormick's involvement as he has been an honorary member of the AHS Education Committee as well as received an Honorary Fellowship and he founded the AHS Penn State Student Chapter. He has taught and inspired several generations of engineers in the vertical flight community.

Professor Barnes W. McCormick's lecture will be featured in an upcoming edition of the Journal of the American Helicopter Society and he will be honored at FORUM 60 with the presentation of a certificate and a medallion.

AHS International -- The Vertical Flight Society is a technical and professional organization which promotes vertical flight technologies and their applications around the world.

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