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 63 (2007) winning technical papers are linked below.
| Technical Area | Title of Paper | Author(s) |
| Winner of the Alfred Gessow Forum Best Paper Award (Aeromechanics) |
Application of CFD/CSD Coupling for Analysis of Rotorcraft Airloads and Blade Loads in Maneuvering Flight | Mahendra J. Bhagwat, ELORET Corp.; Robert A. Ormiston, US Army AMRDEC and Hossein A. Saberi and Hong Xin, Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc. |
| Aeromechanics | Application of CFD/CSD Coupling for Analysis of Rotorcraft Airloads and Blade Loads in Maneuvering Flight | Mahendra J. Bhagwat, ELORET Corp; Robert A. Ormiston, US Army; Hossein A. Saberi and Hong Xin, Advanced Rotorcraft Technology, Inc. |
| History | Gerard Post Herrick (1873 – 1955) America’s Unforgettable “Forgotten” Convertiplane Pioneer | Dr. Bruce Charnov |
| Operations and Product Support | Global Ultrasonic Shear Wave Anti-Icing Actuator for Helicopter Blades | Jose L. Palacios, Edward C. Smith, Yun Zhu, Joseph L. Rose, The Pennsylvania State University |
| Systems Engineering | Toward a Real-Time Measurement-Based System for Estimation of Helicopter Engine Degradation Due to Compressor Erosion | Jonathan S. Litt, Donald L. Simon, US Army |
| System Integration | Flight Test, Simulation and Passive Stabilization of a Cargo Container Slung Load in Forward Flight | Luigi S. Cicolani, San Jose State University; Reuben Raz, Aviv Rosen, and Rachel Gordon, Technion Institute of Technology; Andrew Cone, California Polytechnic Institute; Johannes N. Theron, Northern Arizona University; Jeffery Lusardi, Mark Tischler, Dwight Robinson, US Army |
| Vehicle Design | Performance and Design Investigation of Heavy Lift Tiltrotor with Aerodynamic Interference Effects | Hyeonsoo Yeo, U.S. Army; Wayne Johnson, NASA Ames |
| Vehicle Integrity | Deployable System for Crash-Load Attenuation | Sotiris Kellas, Karen E. Jackson, NASA |