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 66 (2010) winning technical papers are linked below.
| Technical Area | Title of Paper | Author(s) |
| Winner of the Alfred Gessow Forum Best Paper Award (Crew Stations and Human Factors) |
Landing an H-60 Helicopter in Brownout Conditions Using 3D-LZ Displays | Zoltan P. Szoboszlay and Steven R. Braddom, AMRDEC; H.N. “Buck” Burns, H.N. Burns Engineering Corp.; R. Andy McKinley, Walter W. Harrington, James C. Savage, U.S. Air Force |
| Acoustics | Direct CFD Predictions of Low Frequency Sounds Generated by a Helicopter Main Rotor | Ben W. Sim and Mark A. Potsdam, Ames Research Center; Dave A. Conner, Langley Research Center; Michael E. Watts, NASA Langley Research Center |
| Advanced Vertical Flight |
Tiltrotor/Tiltwing Performance Enhancement Via Active On-Blade Flaps |
Todd R. Quackenbush, Daniel A. Wachspress, Robert M. McKillip, Jr., and Christine L. Solomon, Continuum Dynamics, Inc. |
| Aerodynamics | The Flow Physics of Helicopter Brownout | Catriona Phillips, Hyo Won Kim, Richard E. Brown, University of Glasgow |
| Aircraft Design | Development and Flight Validation of an Autonomous Mono-Wing UAS | Kingsley Fregene, Steve Jameson, David Sharp, Lockheed Martin; Harold Youngren, AeroCraft Consulting; David Stuart, Dave Stuart Model Aircraft |
| Avionics and Systems | Remote Guardian System (RGS) Defensive Weapon System | Chris Weaver, BAE Systems |
| Crash Safety | Lightweight, High Performance Aircraft Fuel Bladders | Kenneth Heater and Brian Pilati, METSS Corporation |
| Crew Stations and Human Factors | Landing an H-60 Helicopter in Brownout Conditions Using 3D-LZ Displays | Zoltan P. Szoboszlay and Steven R. Braddom, AMRDEC; H.N. “Buck” Burns, H.N. Burns Engineering Corp.; R. Andy McKinley, Walter W. Harrington, James C. Savage, U.S. Air Force |
| Dynamics | Application of CFD/CSD to Rotor Aeroelastic Stability in Forward Flight | Mark Potsdam, Robert Ormiston, AMRDEC |
| Flight Simulation |
Rapid Integration, Development And Flight Test Of Helicopter Flight Control Laws |
Shyhpyng Shue, Stacey Winger, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.; Arthur Gubbles, Kris Ellis, National Research Council of Canada |
| Handling Qualities | Development of External Load Handling Qualities Criteria for Rotorcraft | Jeff Lusardi, Chris, Blanken, Steven, Braddom, AMRDEC; Luigi Cicolani, Eric Tobias, Ames Research Center |
| Health and Usage Monitoring Systems | A Systematic Approach to Bearing Health Monitoring | Onder Uluyol, Kyusung Kim, Chris Hickenbottom, Honeywell Aerospace |
| History | Weir Autogiros and Helicopters |
JP Harrison |
| Manufacturing Technology and Processing | Peter J. McCallum, Bell Helicopter Textron | |
| Operations | 3D-LZ Brownout Landing Solution | Walter Harrington, James Savage, R. Andrew McKinley, US Air Force; Steven Braddom, Zoltan Szoboszlay; Hoyt N. “Buck” Burns, H.N. Burns Engineering Corporation |
| Product Support | The Reduction of Composite Main Rotor Blade Maintenance: A practical approach |
M.D. Cappelli, W. Kim, M.R. Urban, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation; R.S. Kumar, M.G. Gurvich, United Technologies Research Center; L. Centolanza, Aviation Applied Technology Directorate |
| Structures and Materials | Integrated Statistical Stress Life Analysis Methodology Utilizing Local Stress Fields |
M.R. Urban, Sikorsky Aircraft; G. Bauer, T.G. Meyer, Computer Aided Engineering Associates, Inc; A. Ghoshal, G.S. Welsh, United Technologies Research Center; N. Bordick, Army Aviation Applied Technology Directorate |
| Systems Engineering | Airworthiness Integration Into Modern Systems Engineering For Complex Military Aircraft Systems | Daniel P. Schrage, Georgia Institute of Technology |
| Test and Evaluation | Photogrammetric Measurements of an EH-60L Brownout Cloud | Oliver D. Wong, Philip E. Tanner, U.S. Army |
| Unmanned VTOL | Benchmarking of Obstacle Field Navigation Algorithms for Autonomous Helicopters | Bernie Mettler and Zhaodan Kong, University of Minnesota; Chad Goerzen, Ames Research Center; Matthew Whalley, AMRDEC |