{"id":37,"date":"2014-03-16T23:22:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-16T23:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stratford.vtol.org\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2025-02-11T16:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T21:36:23","slug":"contests","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stratford.vtol.org\/?page_id=37","title":{"rendered":"LICHTEN AWARD"},"content":{"rendered":"

Robert L. Lichten Award Competition<\/b><\/p>\n

The Robert L. Lichten Award was established to encourage AHS members who have not previously presented the results of their work at a national forum to begin through presentations at local and regional AHS meetings. Candidates for the Lichten Award are proposed by Regional Vice Presidents to the Technical Director and are judged by a committee comprised of members of the AHS Technical Council to determine a national winner.<\/p>\n

The award for the Lichten winner consists of a $500 honorarium made available from Bell Helicopter Textron, Inc., complimentary travel from anywhere in the U.S. to the Forum site, plus complimentary registration and lodging at the AHS Annual Forum. The first runner-up is given an opportunity to present at the Forum and receives complimentary registration. The award was established in 1975 to honor the memory of Robert L. Lichten, an outstanding rotary wing engineer and the Society’s 22nd president. Robert Lichten was a skilled and dedicated worker who spent much of his\u00a0career championing early tilt-wing and tiltrotor concepts until his unfortunate death in an automobile accident. Many who knew him called him the “Pioneer of Tilt Rotor Technology.”<\/p>\n

Visit link for more details (pdf): Procedures and Eligibility Statement<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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2024 Stratford Chapter Lichten Competition Presentation<\/em><\/p>\n

Highlight: Stratford Chapter Winners!<\/h2>\n

2012 – Erez Eller<\/p>\n

1998 – Joseph Horn<\/p>\n

1996 – Andreas P.F. Bernhard<\/p>\n

1984 – Mark Davis<\/p>\n

1981 – Shyi-Yaung Chen<\/p>\n

1976 – Thomas Sheehy<\/p>\n

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Previous National Winners<\/h3>\n

2022 – Timothy Schmidt, Sikorsky Aircraft<\/p>\n

2021 – Andrew Lavoie, Sikorsky Aircraft<\/p>\n

2015 – Isaac Bandy, Sikorsky Aircraft<\/p>\n

2014 – Raymond Beale, Sikorsky Aircraft<\/p>\n

2012 – Erez Eller, Sikorsky Aircraft<\/p>\n

2010 \u2013 Mohammad Ali Rafiee, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<\/p>\n

2005 – Jonathan Garhart, Sikorsky Aircraft<\/p>\n

1997 – Bryan Cotton, Sikorsky Aircraft<\/p>\n

1990 – Joshua Gordia, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute<\/p>\n

1984 – Mark Davis, United Technologies Research Center<\/p>\n

1983 – Todd Quackenbush, Continuum Dynamics Inc.<\/p>\n

1980 – Ken Leighton, Massachusetts Institute of Technology<\/p>\n

1976 – Thomas Sheehy, Sikorsky Aircraft<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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