The Vertical Flight Society accounced the winners of the 2023 Alfred Gessow Best Paper Award on July 17, 2023. This year’s winning paper was selected from 21 Finalists for Best Paper from Forum 79 and is entitled, “Validation of a Motion Sickness Prediction Model via Flight Tests on DLR’s Bo-105 Helicopter,” by Philippe Petit of the German Aerospace Center (DLR).
Piasecki Aircraft Corporation had two papers selected among the 21 Finalists for the 2023 Alfred Gessow Best Paper Award.
Advanced Vertical Flight (best overall in Vehicle Design disciplines): Development, Simulation, and Flight Testing of Damage Tolerant Control Laws for the ADAPT™ Winged-Compound Helicopter Scaled
Demonstrator, by Samuel J. Nadell and Tom Berger, U.S. Army; and Alex DiJoseph and Eric Huang, Piasecki Aircraft Corp.
Handling Qualities: Piloted Simulation Evaluation of Maneuver Optimization Control for a Coaxial Compound Helicopter, by Joseph F. Horn and Ryan Perry, The Pennsylvania State University; Derek Bridges, Nicholas Kuhn and D. Grey Hagwood, Jr., Piasecki Aircraft Corporation; and Tom Berger and Anthony Gong, U.S. Army
You can read the entire press release here:
https://vtol.org/news/press-release-forum-79-gessow-best-paper-winner
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