The Society's Annual Forum & Technology Display is the world's leading international technical event on vertical flight technology. The three-day meeting includes more than 200 technical papers on every discipline from Acoustics to Unmanned Systems. Forum Proceedings papers can be purchased as individual pdf files or as CD-ROMs from the Society's Online Store.
Every year, the best paper in each technical discipline is selected by the Society's Technical Committees. All of the best papers from each technical discipline from every Annual Forum since 2001 – including the overall Alfred Gessow Best Paper Award since 2004 – are recognized as some of the most important technical contributions in the field of vertical flight.
The Forum 61 (2005) winning technical papers are linked below.
| Technical Area | Title of Paper | Author(s) |
| Winner of the Alfred Gessow Forum Best Paper Award (Test & Evaluation) |
Experimental and Computational Study of the Interaction Between a Tandem-Rotor Helicopter and a Ship | Ganesh Rajagopalan, Iowa State University; Saeid Niazi, Sukra Helitec, Inc.; Alan J. Wascock, Aerospace Computing, Inc.; Gloria K. Yamauchi, NASA Ames Research Center; Mark J. Silva, Naval Air Warfare Center |
| Acoustics | Neural Network Modeling Of Measured Tiltrotor Acoustics For Designing Low-Noise Approach Profiles | Marc Gervais, Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., Fredric H. Schmitz, University of Maryland |
| Aerodynamics | Active Flow Control Measurements and CFD on a Transport Helicopter Fuselage | P. B. Martin and C. Tung, Aeroflightdynamics Directorate (AMRDEC); A.A. Hassan, D. Cerchie and J. Roth, The Boeing Company |
| Aircraft Design | Design and Testing of a Rotary Wing MAV with an Active Structure for Stability and Control | Paul Samuel, Jayant Sirohi, Felipe Bohorquez and Ronald Couch, University of Maryland |
| Avionics and Systems | Converting Apache Helicopter Inter-Module Communications From 1553 To Publish/Subscribe | Phillip R. Rees, Ronald J. Koontz, John Chester Krainski, Jr., Christopher H. Cole, The Boeing Company |
| Crash Safety | Effects of Structural and Occupant Provision Improvements to the Static and Dynamic Response of the V-22 Osprey Energy Attenuating Troop Seating System | Heidi R. Moore, Naval Air Systems Command; Rachael Testerman, Naval Air Warfare Center |
| Crew Stations & Human Factors | Apache Flight Experience in Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) Shows Reduced Incidents of Visual Illusions And Problems With The Monocular Helmet-Mounted Display | Clarence E. Rash, U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory; Keith L. Hiatt, United States Army Forces Command |
| Dynamics | Prediction of UH-60A Dynamic Stall Loads in High Altitude Level Flight using CFD/CSD Coupling | Anubhav Datta and Inderjit Chopra, University of Maryland |
| Flight Simulation | Evaluation Of A Rotorcraft Autorotation Training Display On A Commercial Flight Training Device | Bimal L. Aponso, Dongchan Lee, and Edward N. Bachelder, Systems Technology, Inc. |
| Handling Qualities | Intelligent Flight Path Guidance | Rod Buchanan, Malcolm T. Charlton, Kieran M. Halsey, John R. Haswell and Jeremy Howitt, QinetiQ |
| Operations | Development And Implementation Of The H–1 Turned Exhaust System | Kirk Groninga, Tom Mast, Kendall Goodman, Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., David (DA) Anderson, United States Marine Corps |
| Product & Support | Apache Aviation Turbine Engine Diagnostic System (ATEDS) For the AH-64D Turbine Engine | Chris Merlenbach, Boeing Aerospace Support |
| Propulsion | Design & Development of The BA 609 Civil Tiltrotor Hydraulic System Architecture | Carlos A. Fenny and David P. Schultz, Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc. |
| STOVL Technology | A Systems Approach To Model The Conceptual Design Process Of Vertical Take Off Unmanned Aircraft Vehicle (VTUAV) | A. Rathore and A.K. Sinha, RMIT University |
| Structures & Materials | Empirical Damage Tolerance | David O. Adams and Douglas E. Tritsch, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation |
| Test & Evaluation | Experimental and Computational Study of the Interaction Between a Tandem-Rotor Helicopter and a Ship | Ganesh Rajagopalan, Iowa State University; Saeid Niazi, Sukra Helitec, Inc.; Alan J. Wascock, Aerospace Computing, Inc.; Gloria K. Yamauchi, NASA Ames Research Center; Mark J. Silva, Naval Air Warfare Center |
| Unmanned VTOL | Rotary Wing Final Experiments for the Software Enabled Control Program | Eric N. Johnson, Daniel P. Schrage and George Vachtsevanos, Georgia Institute of Technology |