Given to an individual(s) for the best technical paper, written or published within the last 12 months, documenting a significant contribution to the field of vertical flight.
Velkoff Award Recipients
- 2023: Thomas R. Norman, James T. Heineck, Edward T. Schairer, Norman W. Schaeffler, Lauren N. Wagner, Gloria K. Yamauchi, Austin D. Overmeyer, Manikandan Ramasamy, Christopher G. Cameron, Michelle Dominguez, and Alex L. Sheikman
- 2022: Mani Ramasamy, Rohit Jain, and Tom Norman
- 2021: Tom Berger, Mark Tischler, and Joe Horn
- 2020: Beatrice Roget, Jay Sitaraman, Ryan Blumenstein, Hossein Saberi, and Mina Taheri
- 2019: Witold Koning, Wayne Johnson, and Håvard Grip
- 2018: Wayne Johnson, Chris Silva, Eduardo Solis, Vinod Lakshminarayan, Jay Sitaraman, Beatrice Roget, and Andrew Wissink
- 2017: Matthew S. Whalley, Marc D. Takahashi, M. Hossein Mansur, LTC Carl R. Ott, MAJ Joseph S. Minor, MAJ Zachariah G. Morford, Ernesto Moralez, Marcos G. Berrios, Chad L. Goerzen, and Gregory J. Schulein
- 2016: Manikandan Ramasamy, Jacob Wilson, William (Jim) McCroskey, and Preston Martin
- 2015: Joon Lim
- 2014: Matthew Whalley, Mark Takahashi, Jay Fletcher, Ernesto Moralez III, Carl Ott, Michael Olmstead, Chad Goerzen, Gregory Schulein, James Savage, Hoyt Burns and Bill Conrad
- 2013: Zoltan Szoboszlay, MAJ Carl Ott, Walter Harrington, Gregory Neiswander
- 2012: Marc Takahashi, Avi Abershitz, Rafael Rubinets, Matthew Whalley
- 2011: Anubhav Datta, Hyeonsoo Yeo, Thomas Norman
- 2010: Jeff Lusardi, Chris Blanken, LTC Steve Braddom, Luigi Cicolani, Eric Tobias
- 2009: Alan Wadcock
- 2008: William G. Bousman and Thomas Norman
- 2007: Mark Tischler, Robbie Remple, Christina Ivler
- 2006: Dino Cerchie, Ahmed Hassan, Preston Martin, Jeremy Roth, Chee Tung
- 2004/2005: Mark Potsdam, Hyeonsoo Yeo, Wayne Johnson
- 2003: Rendy P. Cheng
- 2002: Peter Kunz and Roger Strawn
- 2001: Wayne Johnson
- 2000: Chris Blanken, Luigi Cicolani, LTC Chris Sullivan, MAJ Dave Arterburn
- 1999:
- 1998: William G. Bousman
- 1997: Robert T.N. Chen, Yiyuan Zhao
- 1996: Stephen A. Jacklin
- 1995: Richard E. Zelenka, Raymond Clark, Robert Branigan
- 1994: Marc D. Takahashi
- 1993: Harry N. Swenson, Ray Jones, Ray Clark