Collier Trophy
The Collier Trophy (until 1922 Aero Club of America Trophy ) is a prize that is awarded once a year in the USA to those who have made the greatest advances in aerospace in the USA in the previous year. (Engl .: "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.")
The award was donated in 1910 by Robert J. Collier , editor of the Colliers Weekly and President of the Aero Club of America and was first awarded in 1911. The trophy weighs 240 kg and is on display at the National Air and Space Museum .
Award winners
- 1911 Glenn Curtiss
- 1912 Glenn Curtiss
- 1913 Orville Wright
- 1914 Elmer Ambrose Sperry and Lawrence Sperry
- 1915 Starling Burgess
- 1916 Elmer Sperry
- 1917–1920 no prizes were awarded
- 1921 Grover Loening
- 1922 U.S. Air Mail Service
- 1923 U.S. Air Mail Service
- 1924 US Army Air Service
- 1925 Sylvanus Albert Reed
- 1926 Edward Hoffman
- 1927 Charles Lanier Lawrance
- 1928 Aeronautics Branch, Department of Commerce
- 1929 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
- 1930 Harold Pitcairn
- 1931 Packard Motor Car Company
- 1932 Glenn Luther Martin
- 1933 Hamilton Standard Propeller Company and Frank Walker Caldwell
- 1934 Albert Francis Hegenberger
- 1935 Donald Wills Douglas
- 1936 Pan American Airways
- 1937 US Army Air Corps
- 1938 Howard Hughes
- 1939 Airlines of the US
- 1940 Sanford Alexander Moss and Army Air Corps
- 1941 Army Air Forces and Airlines of the USA
- 1942 Henry H. Arnold
- 1943 Luis de Florez
- 1944 Carl A. Spaatz
- 1945 Luis Walter Alvarez
- 1946 Lewis A. Rodert
- 1947 John Stack , Lawrence D. Bell , Chuck Yeager
- 1948 Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics
- 1949 William P. Lear
- 1950 The US Helicopter Industry, Military Services, and Coast Guard
- 1951 John Stack
- 1952 Leonard S. Hobbs
- 1953 James Howard Kindelberger , Edward H. Heinemann
- 1954 Richard T. Whitcomb
- 1955 William M. Allen , General Nathan F. Twining
- 1956 Charles J. McCarthy , Vice Admiral James S. Russell
- 1957 Edward P. Curtis
- 1958 United States Air Force and Clarence Johnson , Neil Burgess and Gerhard Neumann , Major Howard C. Johnson , Captain Walter W. Irwin
- 1959 United States Air Force , the Convair Division of General Dynamics Corporation and Space Technology Laboratories, Inc.
- 1960 Vice Admiral William F. Raborn
- 1961 Major Robert M. White , Joseph Albert Walker , Albert Scott Crossfield, and Commander Forrest Petersen
- 1962 Malcolm Scott Carpenter , Gordon Cooper , John Glenn , Virgil Grissom , Walter Schirra , Alan Shepard , Deke Slayton
- 1963 Clarence Johnson
- 1964 Curtis E. LeMay
- 1965 James Edwin Webb and Hugh Latimer Dryden
- 1966 James Smith McDonnell
- 1967 Lawrence A. Hyland
- 1968 Frank Borman , James Arthur Lovell and William Alison Anders
- 1969 Neil Armstrong , Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins
- 1970 Boeing
- 1971 David Randolph Scott , James Benson Irwin and Lieutenant Colonel Alfred M. Worden
- 1972 The officers and men of the 7th and 8th Air Forces of the USAF and Task Force 77 USN
- 1973 Skylab program
- 1974 Dr. John F. Clark and Daniel J. Fink
- 1975 David S. Lewis
- 1976 United States Air Force and Rockwell International
- 1977 General Robert J. Dixon
- 1978 Sam B. Williams
- 1979 Dr. Paul B. MacCready
- 1980 The Voyager Missions Team (Dr. Edward C. Stone )
- 1981 NASA , Rockwell International , Martin Marietta , Thiokol
- 1982 TA Wilson and Boeing
- 1983 United States Army and Hughes Aircraft Helicopters
- 1984 NASA and Martin Marietta
- 1985 Russell W. Meyer
- 1986 Jeana Yeager , Richard Glenn Rutan , Burt Rutan
- 1987 NASA Lewis Research Center and the NASA / industry Advanced Turboprop Team
- 1988 Richard Harrison Truly
- 1989 Ben Rich and the United States Air Force team
- 1990 Bell Boeing
- 1991 Northrop Corporation and United States Air Force
- 1992 The Global Positioning System Team, United States Air Force , United States Naval Research Laboratory , Aerospace Corporation, Rockwell International, and IBM Federal Systems Company
- 1993 Hubble Space Telescope Recovery Team
- 1994 United States Air Force , McDonnell Douglas , United States Army
- 1995 Boeing
- 1996 Cessna Aircraft Company
- 1997 Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation
- 1998 Lockheed Martin , GE Aircraft Engines, NASA , Air Combat Command of the United States Air Force and Defense Intelligence Agency
- 1999 Boeing , GE Aircraft Engines, Northrop Grumman , Raytheon and United States Navy
- 2000 Northrop Grumman , Rolls-Royce , Raytheon , L-3 Communications , United States Air Force and DARPA
- 2001 Pratt & Whitney , Rolls-Royce , Lockheed Martin , Northrop Grumman , BAE Systems and the Joint Strike Fighter Program Office
- 2002 Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
- 2003 Gulfstream G550 team
- 2004 Paul Allen , Burt Rutan , Doug Shane, Michael Melvill , Brian Binnie
- 2005 Eclipse Aviation
- 2006 Lockheed Martin , Boeing , Pratt & Whitney , Northrop Grumman , Raytheon , BAE Systems , United States Air Force as well as about 1000 smaller suppliers in a total of 42 states
- 2007 Several public and private organizations and companies for their work on Automatic Dependent Surveillance Broadcast (ADS-B), a new type of surveillance technology for air traffic
- 2008 Commercial Aviation Safety Team
- 2009 International Space Station ISS
- 2010 Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation , Sikorsky X2 Technology ™ Demonstrator Team
- 2011 Boeing 787
- 2012 Mars Science Laboratory
- 2013 Northrop Grumman , the US Navy and the X-47B team
- 2014 Gulfstream for the Gulfstream G650 Business Jet
- 2015 Dawn team from NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- 2016 "New Shepard" by Blue Origin
- 2017 Cirrus SF50 from Cirrus Aircraft Corporation
- 2018 Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System Team
Web links
- Collier Trophy at the National Aeronautic Association (naa.aero)
- ↑ Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System Team to Receive the 2018 Robert J. Collier Trophy (PDF; 121 kB). Press release of April 5, 2019; accessed on April 6, 2019.