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Francis Xavier Bagnoud Award

The FRANCIS XAVIER BAGNOUD VERTICAL FLIGHT AWARD, created in 1992 and first known as the AHS Director�s Award, is given to a Society member under the age of 35 for career-to-date outstanding contributions to vertical flight technology. The Award honors the memory of a young helicopter engineer, Swiss citizen, author and rescue pilot who founded the AHS student chapter at the University of Michigan. At 20 years of age, he published a treatise on helicopter aerodynamics. Subsequently, he developed within Europe IFR procedures for rotorcraft, and as a commercial pilot, he performed more than 300 helicopter rescue missions.

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2008 - Ryan Ehinger
2007 - William J. Eadie
2006 - Dr. Anubhav Datta
2005 - Dr. Vineet Sahasrabudhe
2004 - Dr. Nikhil A. Koratkar
2003 - Chad Sparks
2002 - Dr. Catherine H. Ferrie
2001 - Christopher D. Sargent
2000 - William P. Geyer, Jr.
1999 - Andreas P.F. Bernhard
1998 - Dr. Farhan Gandhi
1997 - Bryan Cotton
1996 - Dr. Michael S. Torok
1995 - Jeffrey C. Dudley
1994 - Dr. Ed Smith
1993 - Adam Sawicki

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