James H. Doolittle Award
The James H. Doolittle Award is an honor presented annually by the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. It is an award for "outstanding accomplishment in technical management or engineering achievement in aerospace technology".[1] The award consists of a perpetual trophy on permanent display at SETP headquarters, and a smaller replica presented to the recipient. It is named after General James Doolittle, famous for the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo during World War II.
Criteria
The Society lists three criteria for nominations to this award:[1]
- The recipient must be a living member of the Society
- A significant phase of the accomplishment must have occurred while a member of the Society
- The accomplishment must clearly be in the technical management or engineering aspects of aerospace technology
Recipients
- 1966 - James L. Pearce
- 1967 - Richard W. Taylor
- 1968 - William Paul Thayer
- 1969 - Guy M. Townsend, BGen., USAF (Ret)
- 1970 - William M. Magruder
- 1971 - C. H. Meyer
- 1972 - Donald K. Slayton, NASA/MSC
- 1973 - William S. Ross, McDonnell Aircraft Company
- 1974 - William R. Murray
- 1975 - Robert A. Rushworth, Major General, USAF
- 1976 - Frank Borman
- 1977 - Robert C. Little
- 1978 - William R. Laidlaw
- 1979 - Thomas P. Stafford, LGen., USAF
- 1980 - J. Lynn Helms
- 1981 - Thomas B. Hayward, Admiral, USN
- 1982 - Allen E. Paulson
- 1983 - Herbert Z. Hopkins
- 1984 - Donald D. Engen, VAdm, USN (Ret)
- 1985 - Olle Klinker
- 1986 - Hon. John E. Krings
- 1987 - Burt Rutan, Scaled Composites
- 1988 - Richard H. Truly, Rear Admiral, USN
- 1989 - Irving L. Burrows
- 1990 - Robert P. Harper
- 1991 - Gordon E. Fornell, LGen., USAF
- 1992 - William C. Bowes, Vadm., USN and Peter W. Odgers, MGen, USAF (Ret)
- 1993 - A. W. "Tony" LeVier
- 1994 - Per E. Pellebergs
- 1995 - Stephan A. Hanvey
- 1996 - Sean C. Roberts, National Test Pilot School
- 1997 - Frank_D._Robinson
- 1998 - J. Kenneth Higgins
- 1999 - Pete Reynolds
- 2000 - Sir Charles Masefield
- 2001 - Joseph Wendell Dyer, Jr., Vice Admiral (USN) / NASA / iRobot
- 2002 - Phil Schultz
- 2003 – Rogers E. Smith, EADS
- 2004 – Burt Rutan
- 2005 - Robert C. Ettinger, Northrop Grumman Unmanned Systems
- 2006 - Terry E. Tomeny, Eclipse Aviation
- 2007 - Robert L. Crippen
- 2008 - M. Lynn Hanks, Army Technical Test Center
- 2009 - Louis H. Knotts, Calspan Corporation
- 2010 - Dennis P. O'Donoghue, The Boeing Company [2]
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