Collier Trophy
The Collier Trophy is an annual aviation award administered by the U.S. National Aeronautic Association (NAA), presented to those who have made "the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year."
Robert J. Collier, publisher of Collier's Weekly magazine, was an air sports pioneer and president of the Aero Club of America. He commissioned Baltimore sculptor Ernest Wise Keyser to make the 525 pound (240 kg) trophy in 1911, it was originally named the Aero Club of America Trophy. Collier also was the owner of a Wright Model B biplane which he purchased in 1911. After presenting it several times, Collier died in 1918 after the end of World War I.
It was renamed in his honor in 1922 when the Aero Club dissolved, and the award was taken over in 1923 by its replacement the NAA. The name became official in 1944, and the award presented once a year by the NAA president, with the trophy on permanent display at the U.S. National Air and Space Museum. As such, the trophy was in the custody of its 1969 co-recipient Michael Collins during his directorship of the museum.
The trophy was stolen briefly in 1978, but was recovered.[1]
Selected recipients
- 1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss, for successful development of the hydro-aeroplane. The first award.
- 1912 – Glenn H. Curtiss, for the invention of the single-pontoon seaplane and development of the flying boat.
- 1913 – Orville Wright, for development of his automatic stabilizer.
- 1914 – Elmer Sperry, for his invention of gyroscopic control.
- 1915 – W. Starling Burgess, for the Burgess-Dunne BD series of semi-flying wing seaplanes.
- 1921 – Grover Loening, for development of the Loening Flying Yacht.[2]
- 1922 – United States Air Mail Service, for the first transcontinental air mail route.
- 1923 – United States Air Mail Service, for the first transcontinental air mail route involving night flight.
- 1925 – Sylvanus Albert Reed, for the metal propeller.[3]
- 1926 – Major Edward L. Hoffman, for the development of a practical parachute
- 1928 – Aeronautics branch of the United States Department of Commerce for development of airways and navigation facilities.[4]
- 1929 - Fred Weick, for design of the NACA cowling which revolutionized civil air transport by making aircraft faster and more profitable. It also found application on the bombers and fighters of World War II.
1930 Collier Trophy for the development of the autogyro
- 1930 - Harold Frederick Pitcairn and associates for development of the autogyro.[5]
- 1931 - Packard Motor Car Co. for the design/development of the first, practical diesel aircraft engine, the DR-980 radial engine. [6]
- 1932 - Glenn L. Martin for the design of the Martin B-10 (XB-907) bomber.
- 1933 - Frank W. Caldwell of Hamilton Standard for the hydraulically controllable propeller.
- 1934 - Albert Francis Hegenberger for the first blind flying landing system.
- 1935 - Donald W. Douglas and his technical and production personnel.
- 1936 - Pan American Airways for establishment of a transpacific airline and the successful execution of extended overwater navigation in regular operations.
- 1937 - Army Air Corps for the design and development of the Lockheed XC-35.
- 1938 - Howard Hughes
- 1945 - Luis W. Alvarez for the Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) which allowed radar operators to talk a pilot down.
- 1947 - Chuck Yeager for piloting the Bell X-1, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier.
- 1950 - The Helicopter Industry, the Military Services, and the Coast Guard – For development and use of rotary-wing aircraft for air rescue operations.
- 1951 - John Stack (engineer) for the Langley transonic wind tunnel
- 1952 - Leonard S. Hobbs of United Aircraft Corp. – For design, development, and production of the J-57 jet engine.
- 1954 - Richard T. Whitcomb for his discovery of the area rule, a design method for supersonic aircraft.
- 1958 - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson of Lockheed Skunk Works, and Gerhard Neumann and Neil Burgess of GE, for leadership in the development of the F-104 Starfighter (1958) and its J79 engine.
- 1960 - Vice Adm William F Raborn for directing the creation of the Polaris fleet ballistic missile system.
- 1961 - Scott Crossfield, Joseph A. Walker, Robert Michael White and Forrest S. Petersen, X-15 test pilots.
- 1963 - Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, for his leadership at Lockheed's Skunk Works in the development of the SR-71 Blackbird.
- 1967 - Lawrence "Pat" Hyland President and CEO of Hughes Aircraft: for placing the eyes, ears & hand of the United States on the Moon.
- 1969 - the crew of Apollo 11
- 1970 - The Boeing Company for their introduction of the 747.[7]
- 1971 - David Scott, James Irwin, Alfred Worden, and Robert Gilruth of the Apollo 15 mission.[7]
- 1972 - The Officers and Men of the 7th Air Force and 8th Air Force of the United States Air Force and Task Force 77 of the United States Navy (1972) for their work on Operation Linebacker II.[8]
- 1973 - The Skylab program[7]
- 1975 - David S. Lewis, Jr. of General Dynamics Corporation and the F-16 Air Force Industry Team[7]
- 1977 - Robert J. Dixon for his work on Red Flag.[7]
- 1978 - Sam B. Williams for development of the small, high-efficiency turbofan.[7]
- 1979 - Paul MacCready for the MacCready Gossamer Albatross.[7]
- 1980 - The Voyager Mission Team[9]
- 1981 - NASA, Rockwell International, Martin Marietta, and Thiokol for the development of manned reusable spacecraft[9]
- 1982 - T. A. Wilson and The Boeing Company for the Boeing 757 and the 767[9]
- 1983 - The United States Army and Hughes Aircraft Helicopters for advanced weapons systems for the AH-64A Apache[9]
- 1984 NASA and Martin Marietta Corp for their work on satellite rescue and repair[9]
- 1985 - Russell W Meyer and Cessna Aircraft for the outstanding safety record of the Cessna Citation aircraft[9]
- 1986 - Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager, Burt Rutan and the team of the non-stop unrefueled circumnavigation of the Rutan Voyager[9]
- 1987 - NASA Lewis Research Center and the NASA/industry advanced turboprop team for their work in new turboprop technologies[9][10]
- 1989 - Ben Rich for leading Lockheed's Skunk Works to develop the first stealth aircraft, the F-117.[9]
- 1990 - Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey team[11]
- 1991 - The Northrop Corporation, the Industry Team and the United States Air Force for the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit.[12]
Presentation of the 2011 Collier Trophy - 1992 - Naval Research Laboratory, US Air Force, Aerospace Corporation, Rockwell International, and IBM Federal Systems Company for Global Positioning System (GPS).
- 1994 - McDonnell Douglas for developing the C-17 Globemaster III.
- 1995 - Boeing Commercial Airplanes and the Boeing 777 airliner development team, winner for producing the advanced 777 widebody twinjet.
Presentation of the 2013 Collier Trophy - 1996 - Cessna Aircraft Company and the Citation X Design Team for the Citation X[12]
- 2000 - Northrop Grumman, Rolls-Royce, Raytheon, L-3 Communications, United States Air Force, and DARPA for the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk[13]
- 2001 - Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce, Pratt and Whitney, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman and the Joint Strike Fighter program Office for LiftFan[13][14]
- 2002 - Sikorsky Aircraft and the S-92 Team, led by Nicholas Lappos.[15]
- 2004 - Burt Rutan and his SpaceShipOne team for designing and launching the first commercial manned launch vehicle
- 2004 - Gulfstream Aerospace for the development of the G550, the first civil aircraft to include an enhanced vision system as standard equipment.
- 2005 - Eclipse Aviation was awarded as the result of Eclipse Aviation's "leadership, innovation, and the advancement of general aviation" in the production of very light jets, specifically, the Eclipse 500.
- 2006 - The F-22 Raptor Team, because the F-22 "established the unquestionable superiority of the Raptor, a culmination of years of visionary design, rigorous testing, and innovative manufacturing," according to NAA President David Ivey. The Raptor Team consists of the United States Air Force, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Pratt and Whitney, and 1,000 other suppliers located in 42 states.
- 2007 - Various public and private organizations and companies for their innovative work on Automatic Dependent Surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B).
- 2008 - The Commercial Aviation Safety Team
Presentation of the 2014 Collier Trophy - 2009 - The International Space Station Team
- 2010 - The Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. Sikorsky X2 Technology™ Demonstrator Team[16][17][18]
- 2011 - The Boeing Company for designing, building, delivering, and supporting the 787 Dreamliner[19]
- 2012 - NASA/JPL Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity Project Team for their successful Mars mission.[20][21]
- 2013 - Northrop Grumman/U.S. Navy/Industry team for designing, building, and demonstrating the X-47B aircraft and its ability to autonomously operate from and perform arrested landings upon an aircraft carrier.
- 2014 - the Gulfstream G650[20][22]
- 2015 - the NASA-JPL Dawn Mission Team[20][23]
- 2016 - Blue Origin New Shepard[24]
References
- ↑ http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_sic_1429
- ↑ Larson, George C. (August 1976). "The Founding Father". Features. Flying. Vol. 99 no. 2. Ziff Davis. p. 76. ISSN 0015-4806. Retrieved 20 July 2016 – via Google Books.
- ↑ Ritchie Thomas. "Sylvanus Albert Reed Inventor". AAHS Summer 1992: 103.
- ↑ Air Progress: 60. August 1989. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "A History of Collier Trophy Fails – 1930" Flying (magazine), 2012
- ↑ https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/packard-dr-980-radial-9-engine-0
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Collier 1970-1979 Recipients - NAA: National Aeronautic Association". naa.aero. Retrieved 31 July 2017.
- ↑ "A History of Collier Trophy Fails – 1972" Flying (magazine), 2012
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Collier 1980-1989 Recipients - NAA: National Aeronautic Association". National Aeronautic Association.
- ↑ "A History of Collier Trophy Fails – 1987" Flying (magazine), 2012
- ↑ Maisel, Martin D., Demo J. Giulianetti and Daniel C. Dugan. NASA SP-2000-4517, "The History of the XV-15 Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft: From Concept to Flight" (PDF) p155 NASA, 2000. Accessed: 17 March 2012.
- 1 2 "Collier 1990-1999 Recipients". National Aeronautics Association.
- 1 2 "Collier 2000-2009 Recipients". National Aeronautic Association.
- ↑ "Propulsion System in Lockheed Martin Joint Strike Fighter Wins Collier Trophy" (Press release). Fort Worth, TX: Lockheed Martin. 28 February 2003. Archived from the original on 25 May 2011. Retrieved 10 January 2010.
- ↑ "GAPAN to bestow top flight operations award on Nick Lappos" HeliHub, 2 October 2013. Accessed: 13 October 2013.
- ↑ "Sikorsky X2 Technology™ Demonstrator Wins Prestigious Robert J. Collier Trophy" (Press release). Stratford, CT: Sikorsky. 15 March 2011. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- ↑ Warwick, Graham (16 March 2011). "Sikorsky's X2 – Collier Win, Commercial Next?". Aviation Week. Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
- ↑ Larson, George (23 March 2011). "Sikorsky's X2 and the Collier Trophy". Aviation Week. Archived from the original on 9 March 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2014.
- ↑ "Boeing 787 Dreamliner Wins Coveted Collier Trophy" (Press release). Washington DC: Boeing. PR Newswire. 13 March 2012. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Collier 2010-2019 Recipients - NAA: National Aeronautic Association". National Aeronautic Association.
- ↑ Bosco, Cassandro (March 12, 2013). "NASA/JPL Mars Curiosity Project Team Receive 2012 Robert J. Collier Trophy" (PDF). National Aeronautic Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 23, 2014. Retrieved February 9, 2014.
- ↑ Kauh, Elaine (12 March 2015). "Gulfstream G650 Wins 2014 Collier Trophy". AVweb. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
- ↑ Kauh, Elaine (10 March 2016). "NASA-JPL Dawn Mission Team Wins 2015 Collier Trophy". AVweb. Retrieved 22 May 2016.
- ↑ Berry, Stephanie (29 March 2017). "Blue Origin New Shepard to Receive the 2016 Robert J. Collier Trophy" (PDF). NAA. Retrieved 29 Mar 2017.
External links
- The Collier Trophy – contains a fairly up-to-date listing of the winners
- Collier Winners by decade – from NAA's website
- From Engineering Science to Big Science – The NACA and NASA Collier Trophy Research Project Winners, Edited by Pamela E. Mack
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