The Alfred Gessow Award is given each year for the best technical paper at the VFS Annual Forum. The award consists of a plaque and transportation for one author to the European Rotorcraft Forum (ERF). Download a PDF of the Alfred Gessow Guidelines.Development and Validation of Generic Maneuvering Flight Noise Abatement Guidance for Helicopters
James H. Stephenson, US Army CCDC AvMC; Michael E. Watts, Analytical Mechanics Associates, Inc.; Eric Greenwood, Pennsylvania State Univresity; Kyle A. Pascioni, NASA Langley Research Center
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Helicopter Rotor Boundary Layer Transition Measurement in Forward Flight using an Infrared Camera
Anthony Gardner, Christian Wolf, Miles Barnett, Markus Raffel, DLR; JT Heineck, NASA
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Forum 74 – Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 14-17, 2018
Avoiding Obstacles during Approach: DVE-Mitigation Flight Trials and Beyond
Michael Zimmermann, DLR (German Aerospace Center); Stephanus Klasen, HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH; Martin Gestwa, DLR (German Aerospace Center); Andreas Lederle, HENSOLDT Sensors GmbH
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Forum 73 – Fort Worth, Texas, USA, May 9-11, 2017
Analysis and Testing of a Boundary-Layer-Ingesting Pusher Propeller for High Speed Rotorcraft
Blake Moffitt, Patrick Bowles, Jongwook Joo, Brian Wake, Byung-Young Min, United Technologies Research Center
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Forum 72 – West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, May 17-19, 2016
Adjoint-based Aeroacoustic Design-Optimization of Flexible Rotors in Forward Flight
Enrico Fabiano and Dimitri Mavriplis, University of Wyoming
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Forum 71 – Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA, May 5-7, 2015
A Smart Position Sensor for Articulated Rotors
Troy Shank, Bell Helicopter; Kynn Schulte, Bell Helicopter Textron Inc.
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Forum 70 – Montréal, Québec, Canada, May 20-22, 2014
Design and Development of the Atlas Human-Powered Helicopter
Cameron Robertson and Todd Reichert, AeroVelo Inc.
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Forum 69 – Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 21-23, 2013
Flight Test Results for Autonomous Obstacle Field Navigation and Landing Site Selection on the RASCAL JUH-60A
Matthew Whalley, Marc Takahashi, Jay Fletcher, Ernesto Moralez III, Carl Ott, and Michael Olmstead, US Army AFDD; Chad L. Goerzen and Gregory J. Schulein, San Jose State University; James C. Savage, AFRL; Hoyt N. Burns and Bill Conrad, H.N. Burns Engineering Corp.
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Forum 68 – Fort Worth, Texas, USA, May 1-3, 2012
Blade Tip Pressure Measurements Using Pressure Sensitive Paint
Oliver Wong, US Army AFDD; A. Neal Watkins and Kyle Goodman, NASA Langley Research Center; Jim Crafton, Alan Forlines and Larry Goss, Innovative Scientific Solutions, Inc.; James Gregory and Thomas Juliano, The Ohio State University
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Forum 67 – Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA, May 3-5, 2011
Experimental Investigation and Fundamental Understanding of a Slowed UH-60A Rotor at High Advance Ratios
Dr. Anubhav Datta, Science and Technology Corporation; Dr. Hyeonsoo Yeo, U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate; Thomas R. Norman, NASA Ames Research Center
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Forum 66 – Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 11-13, 2010
Landing an H-60 Helicopter in Brownout Conditions Using 3D-LZ Displays
Zoltan P. Szoboszlay and LTC Steven R. Braddom, U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate; Dr. R. Andy McKinley; James C. Savage and Walter W. Harrington, Air Force Research Laboratory; H. N. “Buck” Burns, H.N. Burns Engineering Corp.
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Forum 65 – Fort Worth, Texas, USA, May 27-29, 2009
A High Fidelity Brownout Model for Real-Time Flight Simulations and Trainers
Daniel A. Wachspress, Glen R. Whitehouse, Jeffrey D. Keller and Ke Yu , Continuum Dynamics, Inc.; Phillip Gilmore, Michael Dorsett, and Kevin McClure, SAIC
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Forum 64 – Montreal, Canada, April 29 - May 1, 2008
Accurate Bird Strike Simulation Methodology for BA609 Tiltrotor
Cheng-Ho Tho and Michael Smith, Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.
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Forum 63 – Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA, May 1-3, 2007
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.
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Forum 62 – Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 9-11, 2006
Trailing Edge Flaps for Active Rotor Control Aeroelastic Characteristics of the ADASYS Rotor System
Oliver Dieterich, Bernhard Enenkl and Dieter Roth, Eurocopter Deutschland GmbH
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Forum 61 – Grapevine, Texas, USA, June 1-3, 2005
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. Wadcock, Aerospace Computing, Inc.; Gloria K. Yamauchi, NASA Ames Research Center; Mark J. Silva, Naval Air Warfare Center
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Forum 60 – Baltimore Maryland, USA, June 7-10, 2004
V-22 High Rate Of Descent (HROP) Test Procedures And Long Record Analysis
Albert Brand, Ron Kisor, Robert Blyth, Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc.; Dave Mason, Chris Host, The Boeing Company
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Forum 59 – Phoenix, Arizona, USA, May 6-8, 2003
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Forum 58 – Montreal, Canada, June 11-13, 2002
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Forum 57 – Washington, D.C., USA, May 9-11, 2001
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