François-Xavier Bagnoud Award
The François-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 their 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.
Award winners
2012 - Dr. Jose Palacios, Pennsylvania State University
2011 - Joseph G. Irwin, Senior Manager, Flying Qualities, The Boeing Company
2010 - Jeffrey D. Sinsay, US Army AMRDEC
2009 - Andrew Elliot Augenstein
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