Recipients of this award, from 1958 to present, include: • 1958 •
James R. Gannett, Boeing First Commercial Jet •
Joseph John "Tym" Tymczyszyn, CAA First Commercial Jet • 1960 •
A. Scott Crossfield, North American X-15 Program •
William M. Magruder, Douglas DC-8 Flight Test Program • 1961 •
Joseph A. Walker, NASA X-15 Program •
Robert M. White, Maj USAF, NASA X-15 Program • 1963 • Astronaut Team, NASA Mercury Program •
M. Scott Carpenter, LCDR USN •
L. Gordon Cooper, Maj USAF •
John H. Glenn, Jr. Lt Col USMC •
Virgil I. Grissom, Capt USAF •
Walter M. Schirra, CDR USN •
Alan B. Shepard, CDR USN •
Donald K. Slayton, Maj USAF • 1964 • Pilots of YF12A (A-11) Lockheed Super-Secret Project •
Louis W. Schalk •
William C. Park •
Robert J. Gilliland •
James D. Eastham • 1965 •
Alvin S. White, North American
XB-70 Supersonic Flight • 1966 •
Milton Orville Thompson, NASA M2/F2-Lifting Body Program • 1967 •
Richard L. Johnson, for the
General Dynamics F-111 test Program • 1968 •
Drury W. Wood, Jr, Dornier Werke DO31 Test Program-VTOL Flight • 1969 •
Jerauld R. Gentry, Maj USAF, NASA/FRC Lifting Body Program •
James A. McDivitt, Col USAF/NASA Apollo IX Mission, test of LM maneuvering • Apollo 11 Team Moon landing and return • 1975 •
John E. Krings, McDonnell Aircraft As Project Pilot on F15A Company high angle of attack characteristics test program • 1976 •
Charles C. Bock, Jr, Rockwell International For his outstanding accomplishments on the B-1 Program • 1977 •
Fitzhugh L. Fulton, Jr, NASA/Dryden Flight 747/Space Shuttle Carrier Research Center • 1978 •
James M. Patton Jr, NASA/Langley Research Stall/Spin Flight Research Center •
Fred W. Haise, Jr, NASA/JSC Space Shuttle •
Joe H. Engle, Col, USAF •
Charles Fullerton, Lt Col USAF •
Richard H. Truly, CDR USN • 1979 •
Philip F. Oestricher, General Dynamics Corp. F-16 Flight Test Program •
Robert C. Ettinger, Lt Col USAF • 1980 •
Dorman A. Cannon, Bell Helicopter Textron Tilt Rotor XV-15 •
Ronald G. Erhart,
Bell Helicopter Textron • 1981 •
John W. Young, NASA
Space Shuttle Columbia •
Robert L. Crippen, CAPT USN • 1982 •
Thomas McMurtry,
NASA AD-1 Oblique Wing Program • 1983 •
John M. Hoffman, Lt Col USAF For Outstanding contribution to the derivative F-15 fighter planes • 1984 •
Donald L. Bloom, Bell Helicopter 0H-58C helicopter spin phenomena •
Charles A. Sewell,
Grumman Aerospace Low Altitude high angle Corporation of attack, asymmetric thrust flight test program on the
F-14 Tomcat. • 1985 •
William W. Lowe, McDonnell Douglas
AV-8B High Angle of Attack Corporation Test Program • 1986 •
David A. Kerzie, Lockheed Corp. U-2/TR-1 extremely high altitude investigative and exploratory flights to determine flutter characteristics. • 1987 •
Guy Mitaux-Maurouard, Avions Marcel Dassault Rafale Flight Test Program •
Dick Rutan,
Voyager Aircraft, Inc. Successful around-the-world non-stop, non-refueled flight of the Voyager aircraft •
Jeana Yeager, Voyager Aircraft, Inc. • 1988 •
Channing S. Morse, McDonnell Douglas
NOTAR Helicopter, Helicopter Company Development Program • 1989 •
Addison S. Thompson, Rockwell International B-1B high alpha envelope •
Randy Gaston, Lt Col USAF, expansion and flight control system development •
William C. Park, Jr, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Research and development •
N. Kenneth Dyson, Lt Col USAF, flights of prototype • 1990 •
Bruce J. Hinds, Jr. Northrop Corporation B-2 Flight Test Program •
Richard S. Couch, Col USAF • 1991 • Paul Metz, Northrop Corporation
YF-23 ATF Prototype • David L. Ferguson, Lockheed Corporation Y
F-22 ATF Prototype • 1992 •
Daniel C. Brandenstein, CAPT USN Space Shuttle/Satellite Recovery • 1993 •
Allan T. Reed, McDonnell Douglas
T-45 High Angle of Attack and Corporation Flying Qualities & Spin Evaluation • 1994 •
Christopher J. Yeo, British Aerospace Eurofighter 2000 Flight Test •
Peter Weger, Deutsche Aerospace Program • 1995 •
John E. Cashman, The Boeing Company 777 Flight Test Program • 1996 •
Erwin Danuwinata,
IPTN Expansion and flight tests leading to FAA/JAA certification •
Ken Dyson &
Richard G. Thomas,
Tacit Blue Program (Retroactive 1982) •
Jon S. Beesley, USAF
F-117 Combined Test Force,
Harold C. Farley Lockheed,
David L. Ferguson Lockheed &
Thomas A. Morgenfeld Lockheed (Retroactive 1983) • 1997 •
Douglas B. Shane, Scaled Composites
V-Jet II and
Vision Aire Vantage • 1998 • Gary Freeman,
Gulfstream Aerospace G-V Certification Test Program • 1999 •
Mike Melvill,
Scaled Composites Proteus high-altitude multimission aircraft • 2000 •
Jeremy Tracy, GKN
Westland Helicopters • 2001 • Wg Cdr
Rajiv Kothiyal, Indian AF • 2002 •
Herb Moran Bell Helicopter, envelope expansion and aircraft definition of the AH-1Z helicopter. • 2003 •
Thomas L. Macdonald, Bell-Boeing High Rate of Descent (HROD) testing for the
V-22 Osprey • 2004 •
Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne Test Team •
Mike Melvill •
Brian Binnie •
Peter Siebold • 2005 •
Randy Neville, Boeing F-22 • 2006 •
Norman E. Howell, Boeing, C-17 • 2007 •
Jon S. Beesley, Lockheed Martin, F-35A and Bird of Prey Test Team (Retroactive from 1997) •
Rudy Haug, Boeing •
Doug Benjamin, Boeing •
Joe Felock, Boeing • 2008 •
Terry E. Tomeny,
Calspan Corporation
Eclipse • 2009 •
Peter Siebold,
Scaled Composites • 2010 •
Michael Carriker, Boeing • 2011 •
Kevin Bredenbeck, Sikorsky Aircraft,
X2 Demonstrator • 2012 •
Markus Scherdel,
Solar Impulse, HB-SIA • 2013 •
Mark "Forger" Stucky,
Scaled Composites Test Pilot for
SpaceShipTwo and WhiteKnightTwo • 2014 •
AgustaWestland AW609 Tiltrotor Test Team • Pietro Venanzi • Dan Wells • Paul Edwards • 2015 • Prospero Uybarreta,
Bombardier Commercial Aircraft,
C Series and
CRJ Series • 2016 • Scott Martin, Gulfstream Aerospace,
GVII-G500/G600 • 2017 • Charles Ellis, Bombardier Flight Test Center,
Bombardier CSeries • 2018 • James Payne, Airbus Perlan Project • 2019 • Evan C. Thomas, Scaled Composites, LLC., Stratolaunch Aircraft • 2020 • Tom Carr, Garmin, Garmin Emergency Autoland (EAL) • 2021 • Donald Grove, Bell Textron, V-280 Demonstrator Program • 2022 • Benjamin Williamson, Sikorsky, A Lockheed Martin Company, S-70 Optionally Piloted Vehicle • 2023 • Steven Crane, Eviation, Alice V2 Aircraft • 2024 • William Shoemaker, Boom Supersonic, XB-1 Program • 2025 • Tristan Brandenburg, Boom Supersonic, XB-1 Program ==See also==