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Year |
Recipient |
Affiliation |
Program |
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1958 |
James R. Gannett |
Boeing |
First Commercial Jet Transport Certification |
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Joseph J. Tymcyzszyn |
CAA |
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1959 |
Robert G. Ferry, Maj |
USAF |
XV-3 Convertiplane |
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1960 |
A. Scott Crossfield |
North American |
X-15 Program |
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William M. Magruder |
Douglas |
DC-8 Flight Test Program |
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1961 |
Joseph A. Walker |
NASA |
X-15 Program |
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Robert M. White, Maj |
USAF |
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1962 |
Donald W. McCracken |
McDonnell |
F-4 Mach Investigation |
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1963 |
Astronaut Team, |
NASA |
Mercury Program |
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Scott Carpenter, LCDR |
USN |
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Leroy G. Cooper, Maj |
USAF |
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John H. Glenn, Jr. Lt Col |
USMC |
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Virgil I. Grissom, Capt |
USAF |
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Walter M. Schirra, CDR |
USN |
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Alan B. Shepard, CDR |
USN |
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Donald K. Slayton, Maj |
USAF |
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1964 |
Pilots of YF12A (A-11) |
Lockheed |
Super-Secret Project |
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Louis W. Schalk |
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William C. Park |
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Robert J. Gilliland |
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James D. Eastham |
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1965 |
Alvin S. White |
North American |
XB-70 Supersonic Flight |
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1966 |
Milton O. Thompson |
NASA |
M2/F2-Lifting Body Program |
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1967 |
Richard L. Johnson |
General Dynamics |
F-111 Program |
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1968 |
Drury W. Wood, Jr |
Dornier Werke |
DO31 Test Program-VTOL Flight |
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1969 |
Co-Winners: |
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Jerauld R. Gentry, Maj |
USAF, NASA/FRC |
Lifting Body Program |
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James A. McDivitt, Col |
USAF/NASA |
Appollo IX Mission, test of LM maneuvering |
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1970 |
Co-Winners: |
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Darryl G. Greenamyer |
Lockheed |
World speed record for piston engine airplane |
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Apollo XI Team |
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Neil A. Armstrong |
NASA |
Moon landing and return |
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Edwin E. Aldrin, Col |
USAF/NASA |
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Michael Collins, Col |
USAF/NASA |
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1971 |
Andre Turcat |
Aerospatiale |
Joint test programs of Concorde aircraft |
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E. Brian Trubshaw |
British Aircraft Corporation |
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1972 |
Apollo XVI Crew |
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Moon landing and return |
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John W. Young, CAPT |
USN, NASA |
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Thomas K. Mattingly CDR |
USN, NASA |
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Charles M. Duke, Lt Col |
USAF/NASA |
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Donlad R. Segner |
Lockheed-California Company |
For accomplishments in testing the Cheyenne |
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1973 |
Charles A. Sewell |
Grumman Aerospace |
Spin Prevention Testing in F-14-A TOMCA |
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1974 |
Irving L. Burrows |
McDonnell Aircraft Company |
Outstanding professional contributions as a test pilot during F15A development program |
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1975 |
John E. Krings |
McDonnell Aircraft Company |
As Project Pilot on F15A high angle of attack characteristics test program |
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1976 |
Charles C. Bock, Jr |
Rockwell International |
For his outstanding accomplishments on the B-1 Program |
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1977 |
Fitzhugh L. Fulton, Jr |
NASA/Dryden Flight |
747/Space Shuttle Carrier Research Center |
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1978 |
James M. Patten Jr. |
NASA/Langley Research Center |
Stall/Spin Flight Research |
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Fred W. Haise, Jr |
NASA/JSC |
Space Shuttle |
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Joe H. Engle, Col |
USAF |
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Charles Fullerton, Lt Col |
USAF |
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Richard H. Truly, CDR |
USN |
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1979 |
Philip F. Oestricher |
General Dynamics Corp. |
F-16 Flight Test Program |
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Robert C. Ettinger, Lt Col |
USAF |
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1980 |
Dorman A. Cannon |
Bell Helicopter Textron |
Tilt Rotor XV-15 |
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Ronald G. Erhart |
Bell Helicopter Textron |
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1981 |
John W. Young |
NASA |
Space Shuttle Columbia |
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Robert L. Crippen, CAPT |
USN |
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1982 |
Thomas C. McMurtry |
NASA |
AD-1 Oblique Wing Program |
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1983 |
John M. Hoffman, Lt Col |
USAF |
For Outstanding contribution to the derivative F-15 fighter planes |
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1984 |
Donald L. Bloom |
Bell Helicopter |
0H-58C helicopter spin phenomena |
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Charles A. Sewell |
Grumman Aerospace Corporation |
Low Altitude high angle of attack, asymmetric thrust flight test program on the F-14 |
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1985 |
William W. Lowe |
McDonnell Douglas Corporation |
AV-8B High Angle of Attack Test Program |
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1986 |
David A. Kerzie |
Lockheed Corp. |
U-2/TR-1 extremely high altitude investigative and exploratory flights to determine flutter characteristics. |
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1987 |
Guy Mitaux-Maurouard |
Avions Marcel Dassault |
Rafale Flight Test Program |
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Richard G. Rutan |
Voyager Aircraft, Inc. |
Successful Around-the-world non-stop, non-refueled |
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Jeana Yeager |
Voyager Aircraft, Inc. |
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1988 |
Channing S. Morse |
McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Company |
NOTAR Helicopter Development Program |
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1989 |
Addison S. Thompson |
Rockwell International |
B-1B high alpha envelope expansion and flight control system development |
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Randy Gaston, Lt Col |
USAF |
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William C. Park, Jr |
Lockheed Aircraft Corp. |
(Retroactive 1979) Research and development flights of prototype aircraft that led to production of F-117 Stealth Fighter |
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N. Kenneth Dyson, Lt Col |
USAF |
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1990 |
Bruce J. Hinds, Jr. |
Northrop Corporation |
B-2 Flight Test Program |
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Richard S. Couch, Col |
USAF |
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1991 |
Paul Metz |
Northrop Corporation |
YF-23 ATF Prototype |
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David L. Ferguson |
Lockheed Corporation |
YF-22 ATF Prototype |
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1992 |
Daniel C. Brandenstein, CAPT |
USN |
Space Shuttle/Satellite |
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1993 |
Allan T. Reed |
McDonnell Douglas Corporation |
T-45 High Angle of Attack Flying Qualities & Spin Evaluation |
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1994 |
Christopher J. Yeo |
British Aerospace |
Eurofighter 2000 Flight Test Program |
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Peter Weger |
Deutsche Aerospace |
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1995 |
John E. Cashman |
The Boeing Company |
777 Flight Test Program |
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1996 |
Erwin Danuwinata |
IPTN |
Expansion and flight tests |
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Richard Thomas |
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Tacit Blue Program (Retroactive 1982) |
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Ken Dyson |
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Jon S. Beesley |
USAF |
F-117 Combined Test Force (Retroactive 1983) |
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Harold C. Farley |
Lockheed |
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David L. Ferguson |
Lockheed |
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Thomas A. Morgenfeld |
Lockheed |
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1997 |
Douglas B. Shane |
Scaled Composites |
V-Jet II and Vision Aire Vantage |
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1998 |
Gary Freeman |
Gulfstream Aerospace |
G-V Certification Test Program |
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1999 |
Michael Melvill |
Scaled Composites |
Proteus high-altitude multi-mission aircraft |
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2000 |
Jeremy P. Tracy |
GKN Westland Helicopters |
First trans-atlantic flight of an EH101 in a proto- type aircraft |
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2001 |
Rajiv Kothiyal, Wg Cdr |
Indian Air Force |
India’s Light Combat Aircraft Program |
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2002 |
Herbert G. Moran III |
Bell Helicopter, Textron |
AH-1Z Development and Envelope Expansion |
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2003 |
Thomas L. Macdonald |
Bell-Boeing |
High Rate of Decent(HROD) testing for the V-22 |
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2004 |
SpaceShipOne Test Team |
Scaled Composites |
SpaceShipOne |
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2005 |
Randy Neville |
Boeing |
F-22 |
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| 2006 | Norman E. Howell | Boeing |
C-17 |
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2007 |
Jon S. Beesley |
Lockheed Martin |
F-35A |
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Rudy Haug |
Boeing |
(Retroactive from 1997) Bird of Prey Test Team |
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Doug Benjamin |
Lt Col, USAF |
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Joe Felock |
Boeing |
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2008 |
Terry E. Tomeny |
Calspan Corporation |
Eclipse |
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2009 |
Peter Siebold |
Scaled Composites |
White Knight II |
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2010 |
Michael Carriker | The Boeing Company | 787 Dreamliner | |
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2011 |
Kevin Bredenbeck | Sikorsky Aircraft | ||
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2012 |
Markus Scherdel | Solar Impulse | HB-SIA | |
| 2013 | Mark P. Stucky | Scaled Composites |
WhiteKnight, SpaceShip2 Program |
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| 2014 | Dan Wells | AgustaWestland |
AW609 Civil Tiltrotor |
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| Paul Edwards | AgustaWestland | AW609 Civil Tiltrotor | ||
| Pietro Venanzi | AgustaWestland | AW609 Civil Tiltrotor | ||
| 2015 | Prospero Uybarreta |
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Bombardier Commercial Aircraft |
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| 2016 | Scott Martin | Gulfstream Aerospace |
GVII-G500/G600 |
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2017 |
Charles Ellis | Bombardier Flight Test Center |
Bombardier C Series | |
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2018 |
James M. Payne | Perlan Project | Airbus Perlan Project | |
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2019 |
Evan C. Thomas | Scaled Composites, LLC. | Stratolaunch Aircraft | |
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2020 |
Tom Carr |
Garmin International |
Garmin Emergency Autoland (EAL) | |
| 2021 | Donald Grove | Bell Textron | V-280 Demonstrator Program | |
| 2022 | Benjamin Williamson | Sikorsky, A Lockheed Martin Company | S-70 OPV Project | |
| 2023 | Steven Crane | Eviation |
Alice V2 Aircraft |
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| 2024 |
William Shoemaker |
Boom Supersonic | XB-1 Program |