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The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. (AIAA) established the Octave Chanute Award named after
Octave Chanute Octave Chanute (February 18, 1832 – November 23, 1910) was a French-American civil engineer and aviation pioneer. He advised and publicized many aviation enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers. At his death, he was hailed as the father of ...
. Pilot(s) or test personnel that contributed to the advancement of the art, science, or technology of aeronautics received the Octave Chanute Award. The Octave Chanute Award was renamed the Chanute Flight Award in 1978 and discontinued by the AIAA in 2005. Starting in 2017, the Chanute Flight Award was re-established as the Chanute Flight Test Award. The Chanute Flight Test Award presentation occurs biennially (odd-numbered years) at the AIAA Aviation and Aeronautics Forum. The Chanute Flight Test Award is presented to recognize significant lifetime achievements in the advancement of the art, science, and technology of flight test engineering.


Self taught

Octave Chanute Octave Chanute (February 18, 1832 – November 23, 1910) was a French-American civil engineer and aviation pioneer. He advised and publicized many aviation enthusiasts, including the Wright brothers. At his death, he was hailed as the father of ...
, 1832–1910, was born in France and became a naturalized American. He was a self-taught engineer. He designed the first
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over the Missouri River and the
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in Chicago (IL) as well as those in Kansas City (MO). Octave Chanute was a pioneer aeronautical engineer and experimenter, and was a friend and adviser to the Wright Brothers.


Aeronautical pioneer

Chanute waged a long campaign to encourage the invention of the airplane. He collected information from every possible source and gave it to anyone who asked. He published a compendium of aviation information in 1894. In 1896 he commissioned several aircraft to be built. The ''Katydid'' had multiple wings that could be attached variously about the fuselage for ease of experimentation. Chanute's biplane glider (1896) with "two arched wings held rigidly together by vertical struts and diagonal wire bracing" (the principle of the Pratt truss used in the railroad bridges which Chanute constructed) served as a prototype design for subsequent airplanes.


Chanute Flight Test Award recipients

* 1939 Edmund T. Allen,
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engineer and test pilot * 1940
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, engineer and test pilot * 1941 Melvin N. Gough,
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engineer, test pilot * 1942 A. L. MacClain,
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test pilot * 1943 William H. McAvoy,
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engineer, test pilot * 1944 Benjamin S. Kelsey, U.S. Army Air Force engineer, test pilot * 1945 Robert T. Lamson,
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test pilot * 1945 Albert "Elliot" Merrill,
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test pilot * 1946 Captain Ernest A Cutrell,
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test pilot * 1947 Lawrence A. Clousing,
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engineer and test pilot * 1948 Herbert H. Hoover,
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test pilot * 1949 Vice Admiral Frederick M. Trapnell,
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pioneering naval aviator and test pilot * 1950 Captain Donald B. MacDiarmid,
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naval aviator * 1951 Major General Marion E. Carl,
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naval aviator and test pilot * 1952 John C. Seal, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory test pilot * 1953 William B. Bridgeman,
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test pilot * 1954 George E. Cooper,
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engineer and test pilot * 1955 Major General Albert Boyd,
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test pilot * 1956
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test pilot * 1957 Brigadier General Frank Kendall Everest Jr.,
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test pilot * 1958 Albert Scott Crossfield,
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engineer and test pilot * 1959 John P. Reeder,
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, engineer and test pilot * 1960 Dr. Joseph P. Tymczyszyn,
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engineer and test pilot * 1961 Joseph A. Walker,
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engineer and test pilot * 1962 Neil A. Armstrong,
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engineer and test pilot * 1963 Captain Edward J. Bechtold,
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pilot * 1964 Robert C. Innis,
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engineer and test pilot * 1964 Fred J Drinkwater,
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engineer and test pilot * 1965 Alvin S. White,
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engineer and test pilot * 1966 John L. Swigert,
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engineer and test pilot * 1966 Donald F. McCusker,
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engineer and test pilot * 1967 Milton O. Thompson,
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, engineer and test pilot * 1968 Colonel William J. Knight,
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engineer and test pilot * 1969 William C. Park, Lockheed test pilot * 1970 Colonel Jerauld R. Gentry
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engineer and test pilot * 1971 William M. Magruder,
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program manager, engineer, and test pilot * 1972 Donald R. Segner, Lockheed engineer and test pilot * 1973 Major General Cecil W. Powell,
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engineer and test pilot * 1974 Lt. Colonel Charles A. Sewell,
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engineer and test pilot * 1975 Captain Alan L. Bean,
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, engineer and astronaut * 1975 Colonel Jack R. Lousma,
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, engineer and astronaut * 1975 Dr. Owen K. Garriott,
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, engineer and astronaut * 1976 Lt. General Thomas P. Stafford,
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engineer and astronaut * 1978 Tommie D. Benefield,
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engineer and test pilot * 1979 Colonel Austin J. Bailey * 1981 Raymond L. McPherson,
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test pilot * 1983 S. L Wallick, Jr.,
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engineer and test pilot * 1986 George R. Jansen,
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test pilot. * 1988 Russell C. Larson,
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engineer and pilot * 1990 William G Schweikhard,
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* 1992 Robert A. Hoover, Evergreen International test pilot * 1994 Richard Abrams, Lockheed executive * 1996 Edward T Schneider,
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, engineer and test pilot * 1998 Harold C Farley, Lockheed, engineer and test pilot * 2002 Mike Carriker,
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engineer and test pilot * 2017 William R. Gray,
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engineer and test pilot * 2019 David W. Minto * 2022 Rogers E. Smith, SR-71 Pilot and Test Pilot


See also

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References


External links


Western Society of Engineers
* Locomotive to Aeromotive – Octave Chanute and the Transportation Revolution, by Simine Short. University of Illinois Press (August 2011) Aviation awards
Award An award, sometimes called a distinction, is given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be d ...