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 72 (2016) winning technical papers are linked below.
| Technical Area | Title of Paper | Author(s) |
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Winner of the Alfred Gessow Forum Best Paper Award (Aerodynamics) |
Adjoint-based Aeroacoustic Design-Optimization of Flexible Rotors in Forward Flight | Enrico Fabiano and Dimitri Mavriplis, University of Wyoming |
| Acoustics | The Effects of Ambient Conditions on Helicopter Harmonic Noise Radiation: Theory and Experiment | Ben Sim, US Army; Eric Greenwood and D. Douglas Boyd, NASA Langley Research Center |
| Advanced Vertical Flight | System Identification of a Hover Capable Robotic Hummingbird |
David Coleman and Moble Benedict, Texas A&M University |
| Aircraft Design | Multi-Role Rotor – Adaptive Performance (MRRAP) |
Edward Brouwers, Thomas Zientek, Christopher Cline, Richard Bussom, Friedrich Straub and Jeffery Coffman, The Boeing Company; Louis Centolanza, Aviation Development Directorate |
| Avionics and Systems | Bell 525 Airspeed Calibration Prior to First Flight |
Jonathan Mitchell, Albert Brand, Matthew Hill, Nathan Wu and Ajay Singh, Bell Helicopter |
| Crash Safety | Testing Mobile Aircrew Restraint Systems in a Full-Scale CH-46 Airframe Crash Test – Exploring the Limits | Lindley W. Bark, Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division |
| Crew Stations and Human Factors | Terrain and Obstacle Avoidance Displays for Low-Level Helicopter Operations in Degraded Visual environments | Martine Godfroy-Cooper, NASA/SJSU; Zoltan Szoboszlay, US Army Aviation Development Directorate, AMRDEC; Allon Kahana, University of Haifa; Michal Rottem-Hovev, Maof HFE |
| Dynamics | Performance and Loads of a Model Coaxial Rotor Part II: Prediction Validations with Measurements | Joseph Schmaus and Inderjit Chopra, University of Maryland |
| Handling Qualities | AVMS H-47 Chinook with APAS Tactile Cueing Demonstration Results | Joseph Irwin III, The Boeing Company; Mark Schwerke, Erik Kocher and Brandon Brown, The Boeing Company; Anthony Rich |
| Health and Usage Monitoring Systems | Measurement of Vibration Transfer Functions to Inform Machine Learning Based HUMS Diagnostics | Daniel Wade, Jeremy Partain, Andrew Wilson, and Matthew Statham, United States Army; Hieu Ngo and Perumal Shanthakumaran, The Boeing Company; Frances Love, United States Army |
| History | Göttinger Monograph N: A Historic Document is Back |
Berend G. van der Wall |
| Manufacturing Technology and Processing | On-Machine Inspection for Rotorcraft Manufacturing | Jeffery Nissen and Cody Torno, Bell Helicopter |
| Modeling and Simulation | Free-Wake Based Dynamic Inflow Model for Hover, Forward and Maneuvering Flight | Omri Rand and Vladimir Khromov, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology |
| Operations | MQ-8 Fire Scout Icing Solution Challenges | Robert Ernst, PMA 266, NAWCAD; Ajay Sehgal, Wyle Aerospace Group |
| Product Support Systems Technology | HH-60G Airframe Service Life via Multi-Element Damage Monte Carlo Risk Analysis | Nathan Branch and Gregory T. Wood, Mercer Engineering Research Center (MERC); Thomas Brussat, Tom Brussat Engineering, LLC |
| Propulsion | Seeded Fault Testing of Hybird Bearings | Mark Kozachyn, Jonathan Bednar, Richard Naffin, and Mark Robuck, The Boeing Company |
| Safety | Damage Behaviour of Rotorcraft End Plate under High Velocity Bird Impact | R. Vijaya Kumar, D. Thenarasu, R. Ravindranath and D.B. Chalwade, Rotary Wing R&D Centre, Hindustan Aeronautics Limited |
| Structures and Materials | Analysis Methods Improving Confidence in Material Qualification for Laminated Composites |
Andrew Makeev, Guillame Seon, Yuri Nikishkov, University of Texas at Arlington; Dean Nguyen, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation; Peter Mathews and Mark Robeson, U.S. Army Aviation Development Directorate
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| System Engineering Tools/Processes | Quantitative Methods Improve Rotorcraft Safety Risk Management | John Hewitt and Joan Pham, Sikorsky Aircraft |
| Test and Evaluation | From ERATO Basic Research to the Blue Edge Rotor Blade | Berend van der Wall, DLR (German Aerospace Center); Christoph Keßler, DLR (German Aerospace Center); Kurt Pengel, DNW (German-Dutch Wind Tunnels); Marc Gervais and Jean-Francois Hirsch, Airbus Helicopters; Yves Delrieux and Philippe Beaumier and Pascal Crozier, ONERA |
| Unmanned VTOL Aircraft and Rotorcraft | Flight Test Results for a New Mission-Adaptive Autonomy System on the RASCAL JUH-60A Black Hawk | Matthew Whalley, Marc Takahashi, Marcos Berrios, Hossein Mansur, Joseph Minor, Carl Ott, Zachariah Morford and Ernesto Moralez, US Army ADD; Chad Goerzen and Gregory Schulein, San Jose State University |