The James H. Doolittle Award is an honor presented annually by the

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. It is an award for "outstanding accomplishment in technical management or engineering achievement in aerospace technology". The award consists of a perpetual trophy on permanent display at SETP headquarters, and a smaller replica presented to the recipient. It is named after General James Doolittle, famous for the

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on Tokyo during World War II. The Doolittle Trophy is a bronze form melding an aerodynamic shape, a stylized spacecraft, and a winged human figure. The aerodynamic shape stands for the scientists and engineers who provide technological breakthroughs. The spacecraft represents continued growth of the aerospace industry. The human figure represents the pilot who guides the test effort to reach its goals. A

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and

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rest on the base of the trophy symbolizing the tools of the early test pilot and Jimmy Doolittle himself. Plaques bearing the name of each honoree are mounted around the sides of the

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base.

Criteria

The Society lists three criteria for nominations to this award: #The recipient must be a living member of the Society #A significant phase of the accomplishment must have occurred while a member of the Society #The accomplishment must clearly be in the technical management or engineering aspects of aerospace technology

Recipients

Recipients of the SETP J. H. Doolittle Award include: *1966 - James L. Pearce *1967 - Richard W. Taylor *1968 - William Paul Thayer *1969 -

Guy M. Townsend Guy Mannering Townsend III (October 25, 1920 – March 28, 2011) was a United States Air Force brigadier general, test pilot, and combat veteran. As an Air Force officer, he served as chief of bomber test at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, f ...

, BGen., USAF (Ret) *1970 - William M. Magruder *1971 - C. H. Meyer *1972 - Donald K. Slayton, NASA/MSC *1973 - William S. Ross, McDonnell Aircraft Company *1974 - William R. Murray *1975 - Robert A. Rushworth, Major General, USAF *1976 -

Frank Borman Frank Frederick Borman II (born March 14, 1928) is a retired United States Air Force (USAF) colonel (United States), colonel, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, businessman, and NASA astronaut. He was the commander of Apollo 8, the first missio ...

*1977 - Robert C. Little *1978 - William R. Laidlaw *1979 - Thomas P. Stafford, LGen., USAF *1980 -

J. Lynn Helms Jonee (pronounced “Johnnie”) Lynn Helms (March 1, 1925 – December 11, 2011), known as Lynn Helms, was a US Marine Corps officer and former president of Piper Aircraft Corp. Due to his impressive aviation experience and solid Republican creden ...

*1981 -

Thomas B. Hayward Admiral (United States), Admiral Thomas Bibb Hayward (May 3, 1924 – March 3, 2022) was Chief of Naval Operations for the United States Navy from July 1, 1978, until June 30, 1982, after which he retired from military service. Naval career Sho ...

, Admiral, USN *1982 -

Allen E. Paulson Allen Eugene Paulson (April 22, 1922 – July 19, 2000) was an American businessman. Business career in aviation Born in Clinton, Iowa, Clinton, Iowa, Allen E. Paulson was on his own at age 13, supporting himself selling newspapers and doing ...

*1983 - Herbert Z. Hopkins *1984 - Donald D. Engen, VAdm, USN (Ret) *1985 -

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*1986 - Hon.

John E. Krings John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

*1987 -

Burt Rutan Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan (; born June 17, 1943) is a retired American aerospace engineer and entrepreneur noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, and energy-efficient air and space craft. He designed the recor ...

Scaled Composites Scaled Composites (often called simply Scaled) is an American aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman. It is located at the Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California, United States. Founded to deve ...

*1988 -

Richard H. Truly Richard Harrison Truly (born November 12, 1937) is a retired Vice admiral (United States), vice admiral in the United States Navy, a former fighter pilot, engineer, astronaut, and was the eighth NASA Administrator, administrator of the NASA, Natio ...

, Rear Admiral, USN *1989 -

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*1990 - Robert P. Harper *1991 -

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, LGen., USAF *1992 - William C. Bowes, Vadm., USN and Peter W. Odgers, MGen, USAF (Ret) *1993 - A. W. "Tony" LeVier *1994 - Per E. Pellebergs *1995 - Stephan A. Hanvey *1996 - Sean C. Roberts,

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*1997 - Frank D. Robinson *1998 - J. Kenneth Higgins *1999 - Pete Reynolds *2000 - Sir Charles Masefield *2001 - Joseph Wendell Dyer, Jr., Vice Admiral (USN) / NASA / iRobot *2002 - Phil Schultz *2003 – Rogers E. Smith, EADS *2004 –

*2005 - Robert C. Ettinger,

Northrop Grumman Northrop Grumman Corporation is an American multinational aerospace and defense technology company. With 90,000 employees and an annual revenue in excess of $30 billion, it is one of the world's largest weapons manufacturers and military techn ...

Unmanned Systems *2006 -

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Eclipse Aviation The Eclipse Aviation Corporation was the Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States-based manufacturer of the Eclipse 500 very light jet (VLJ), and also at one time proposed developing the Eclipse 400 single-engined jet. The company was founded ...

*2007 - Robert L. Crippen *2008 - M. Lynn Hanks, Army Technical Test Center *2009 - Louis H. Knotts,

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Corporation *2010 - Dennis P. O'Donoghue, The Boeing Company *2011 - Joseph E. Sweeney, Lockheed Martin *2012 -

Doug Shane Douglas Bennett Shane is President of The Spaceship Company, as well as an American test pilot who has trained as a commercial astronaut. He was a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team and one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the ex ...

, Scaled Composites *2013 - Charles T. Burbage, Lockheed Martin *2014 - George E. Cooper, Charter Member *2015 - Harold R. Gaston,

Gulfstream Aerospace Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is an American aircraft company and a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics. Gulfstream designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and services business jet aircraft. Gulfstream has produced more than 2,000 ...

*2016 - Jeffrey A. Wieringa, The Boeing Company *2017 - William Gray, U.S. Air Force Test Pilot School *2018 - Mike Carriker, The Boeing Company *2019 - Douglas A. Benjamin, The Boeing Company (Ret) *2020 - Dr. Allen L. Peterson, National Test Pilot School *2021 - Bruce Remick, Federal Aviation Administration (Ret) *2022 - Robert D. Cabana, NASA

References

{{reflist Aviation awards

Criteria

Recipients

See also

References