Awards
The AHS Howard Hughes Award 2004 for the HART II Team
Established in 1977 by Hughes Helicopters to honor the memory of Howard Hughes, this award is given in recognition of an outstanding improvement in fundamental helicopter technology. This year’s honoree is the Higher Harmonic Control Aeroacoustic Rotor (HART) Test & Analysis Team comprised of Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt e.V. (DLR), Duits-Nederlandse Windtunnel (DNW), Office National D’Etudes et de Recherches Aerospatiales (ONERA), U.S. Army Aeroflightdynamics Directorate (AFDD), and NASA Langley.
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The AHS Augusta Westland International Helicopter Fellowship Award 2012 for the HART II International Workshop Team
This award is given for the most significant contribution to international vertical flight cooperation by an individual or group. Established in 1989, the award honors the memory of Paolo Bellavita, whose career at Gruppo Agusta was marked by his dedication to furthering international cooperation in the world of vertical flight. This year’s award went to the HART II International Workshop Team, accepted by Dr. Berend van der Wall, DLR; Dr. Joon W. Lim, US Army AFDD; Dr. Marilyn J. Smith, Georgia Institute of Technology; and Jean Prieur, represented by Yves Deiriux, ONERA. Today, this Award is called “The Leonardo International Fellowship Award” and the honoree receives a scale replica of the award, a statue of Pegasus.
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