The Herman R. Salmon Technical Publications Award recognizes the most outstanding technical paper published in Cockpit magazine, a quarterly journal of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. The award was established in 1971 and renamed in 1981 to honor the memory of test pilot Herman R. "Fish" Salmon who was killed in an aircraft accident.

Criteria

The Society lists five criteria for nominations to this award:

Originality and/or ingenuity of the article Interest of subject material to the membership Contribution to flight testing Contribution to the exchange of information between test pilots that would not otherwise be generally available Organization of material and clarity of presentation

Recipients

Recipients of this award, from 1971 to present, include:

1971—John F. Farley 1972—Jack F. Woodman 1973—Gilbert Defer 1974—Pietro P. Trevisan 1975—Robert R. Stone 1976—William H. Brinks 1977—Richard G. Thomas 1978—A. W. "Bill" Bedford 1979—Charles A. Sewell 1980—LCdr. Richard N. Richards, USN; Carroll D. Pilcher 1981—No award was presented 1982—William H. Brinks 1983—Dennis D. Behm 1984—A. Paul Metz 1985—Walter Spychiger 1986—Frank C. Sanders; Jeff Ethell 1987—B. Pasquet 1988—Major Troy D. Pennington, USMC; Richard Kotarba 1989—Charles J. Berthe, Louis H. Knotts, Jeff H. Peer, N. C. Weingarten 1990—Paul W. Herrick 1991—George L. Wiser 1992—Michael Barnes; Cdr. John Deaton, USN; Jonathan Kern; Douglas Wright 1993—Maj. William A. Flynn, CAF; Keith L. Keller 1994—Louis H. Knotts, Michael L. E. Parrag, Eric E. Ohmit 1995—Allen T. Reed 1996—Eric E. Fiore 1997—Michale Swales 1998—Lt Col Carl Hawkins, USAF; Lt Andrew Thorne, USAF 1999—Capt Ron Rogers, ALPA 2000—Thomas Tilden, United Airlines 2001—Mr. Michael Adam-Swales, Agusta Westland Helicopter, Mr. Andrew Strachan, Agusta Westland Helicopters 2002—Capt Kevin A. Gibbons, USAF; Maj Philip K. Chionh, RSAF; Maj Mark R. Johnson, USMC; Maj James R. Marcolesco, USAF; Capt Collin T. Ireton, USAF; Capt David F. Radomski, USAF; Maj Andrew J. Thurling, USAF 2003—Mr. Bob Riser; LCDR Wade McConvey, USN 2004—Sqn Ldr Shaun Wildey, RAF 2005—Richard V. Reynolds, Lt Gen, USAF (Ret) 2006—Dr. Guy Gratton, Dr. Simon Newman 2007—Lt Col Geno Wagner, USAF 2008—Lt Col Daniel D. Daetz, USAF; Maj Jack D. Fischer, USAF; Brian Knaup, USAF 2009—Dr. Allen Peterson, Sierra Nevada Corporation 2010—Maj Aaron A. Tucker, USAF (M), Maj Christopher E. Childress, USAF (M), and Lt Col Robert J. Poremski, USAF 2011—Mark A. Mitchell, Norman E. Howell 2012—Nicola Pecile, National Test Pilot School and Lt Col Raffaele Di Caprio, Italian Air Force 2013—LTC Jeffrey Trang, USA (Ret) (AF), American Eurocopter, Denis Hamel, American Eurocopter 2014—Robert Moreau, FedEx 2015—David L. Lawrence 2016—Timothy S. McDonald, U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School 2017—LTC Tucker Hamilton, USAF 2018—James E. ″JB″ Brown, III, National Test Pilot School 2019 - Dr. Brian Lee and Dr. Kirk Vining, The Boeing Company 2020 - Maj Gen Desmond Barker, SAAF (Ret) 2021 - Robert Hierl 2022 - James E. ″JB″ Brown, III, National Test Pilot School 2023 - Thomas A. Washington, MIT Lincoln Laboratory 2024 - Thomas A. Washington, MIT Lincoln Laboratory 2025 - Kevin Christensen, Bell Textron Inc.& Brian Fujizawa, U.S. Army DEVCOM AvMC 2026 - Prof Guy Gratton, Wayne Precious, Arun Mony Damodaran. Cranfield University and Azure Flight Training Centre.

See also

List of aviation awards

References