The Robert J. Collier Trophy is awarded annually "for 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 Collier Trophy is administered by the National Aeronautic Association (NAA) the oldest national aviation organization in the United States. Founded in 1905, the NAA oversees America's oldest and most prestigious aviation and aerospace recognitions. The Collier Trophy is the most coveted of all. Robert J. Collier, publisher of '' Collier's Weekly'' magazine, was an air sports pioneer and president of the Aero Club of America. In 1910, he commissioned Baltimore sculptor Ernest Wise Keyser to make the ''Aero Club of America Trophy''. It was first awarded in 1911 to Glenn H. Curtiss for his successful development of the hydro-aeroplane. Collier presented his namesake trophy several times before his death in 1918. The award is presented once a year by the NAA president, with the trophy on permanent display at the

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. The trophy was stolen briefly in 1978, but was recovered. The thieves left it at Fort Foote park and it was recovered 26 hours from the time it went missing.

Recipients

* 1911 – Glenn H. Curtiss, for successful development of the hydro-aeroplane."The Curtiss Company."
''US Centennial of Flight Commemoration,'' 2003. Retrieved: January 28, 2011. The first award. * 1912 – Glenn H. Curtiss, for the invention of the single-pontoon seaplane and development of the flying boat. * 1913 – Orville Wright, for development of his

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. * 1914 – Elmer Sperry and Lawrence Sperry, for the invention of gyroscopic control. * 1915 – W. Starling Burgess, for the Burgess-Dunne BD series of semi-flying wing seaplanes. * 1916 – Elmer Sperry and Lawrence Sperry for the invention of a drift indicator * 1917–1920 – No trophy awarded due to the war * 1921 – Grover Loening, for development of the Loening Flying Yacht. * 1922 – United States Air Mail Service, for the first transcontinental air mail route without a single fatal accident. * 1923 – United States Air Mail Service, for the first transcontinental air mail route involving night flight. * 1924 –

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, for first aerial flight around the world. * 1925 – Sylvanus Albert Reed, for the metal propeller. * 1926 – Major Edward L. Hoffman of the

for the development of a practical

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. * 1927 – Charles L. Lawrance, for the development of the air-cooled aircraft

radial engine The radial engine is a reciprocating engine, reciprocating type internal combustion engine, internal combustion engine configuration in which the cylinder (engine), cylinders "radiate" outward from a central crankcase like the spokes of a wheel. ...

. * 1928 – Aeronautics branch of the

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for development of airways and navigation facilities. * 1929 – National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), for design of the

NACA cowling The NACA cowling is a type of aerodynamic Aircraft fairing, fairing used to streamliner, streamline radial engines installed on airplanes. It was developed by Fred Weick of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) in 1927. It was a ...

for radial air-cooled engines. 1930 Collier Trophy

* 1930 – Harold Frederick Pitcairn and associates for development of the

autogyro An autogyro (from Greek and , "self-turning"), gyroscope, gyrocopter or gyroplane, is a class of rotorcraft that uses an unpowered rotor in free autorotation to develop lift. A gyroplane "means a rotorcraft whose rotors are not engine-d ...

. * 1931 – Packard Motor Car Co. for the design/development of the first, practical diesel aircraft engine, the DR-980 radial engine. * 1932 – Glenn L. Martin for the design of the Martin B-10 (XB-907) bomber. * 1933 – Frank W. Caldwell of

Hamilton Standard Hamilton Standard was an American aircraft propeller (aircraft), propeller parts supplier. It was formed in 1929 when United Aircraft and Transport Corporation consolidated Hamilton Aero Manufacturing and Standard Steel Propeller into the Hamilto ...

for the hydraulically controllable propeller. * 1934 – Captain A. F. Hegenberger USAAC for the first blind flying landing system. * 1935 – Donald W. Douglas and his technical and production personnel for the outstanding twin-engine transport airliner. * 1936 – Pan American Airways for establishment of a transpacific airline and the successful execution of extended overwater navigation in regular operations. * 1937 – Army Air Corps for the design and development of the Lockheed XC-35. * 1938 –

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and his associates for breaking the record time by flying around the world in 91 hours and 14 minutes. * 1939 –

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s of the US safety record, with special recognition to Walter Boothby, Randolph Lovelace, and Harry Armstrong. * 1940 – Dr. Sanford A. Moss and the Army Air Corps for development of the turbo-supercharger. * 1941 – Army Air Corps and the

s of the US for pioneering worldwide air transportation vital to immediate defense. * 1942 – General Henry Arnold for his "organization and leadership of the Army Air Forces throughout the world." * 1943 – Captain Luis de Florez,

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for his contribution to the safe and rapid training of combat pilots and crews. * 1944 – Carl Spaatz "for demonstrating the air power concept through employment of American aviation in the war against Germany." * 1945 – Luis W. Alvarez for the Ground Controlled Approach (GCA) which allowed radar operators to guide pilots to a safe landing in all weather conditions. * 1946 – Lewis A. Rodert of NACA, for the design and development of an aircraft anti-icing system. * 1947 – Lawrence Bell, John Stack,

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shared the award for their work on the

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, the first aircraft to break the

sound barrier The sound barrier or sonic barrier is the large increase in aerodynamic drag and other undesirable effects experienced by an aircraft or other object when it approaches the speed of sound. When aircraft first approached the speed of sound, th ...

. * 1948 – The Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics for developing an

air traffic control Air traffic control (ATC) is a service provided by ground-based air traffic controllers who direct aircraft on the ground and through a given section of controlled airspace, and can provide advisory services to aircraft in non-controlled air ...

system. * 1949 – William Lear for the development of the F-5

automatic pilot An autopilot is a system used to control the path of a vehicle without requiring constant manual control by a human operator. Autopilots do not replace human operators. Instead, the autopilot assists the operator's control of the vehicle, allow ...

and automatic approach control coupler system. * 1950 – The Helicopter Industry, the Military Services, and the

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– for development and use of rotary-wing aircraft for air rescue operations. * 1951 – John Stack for the

NACA The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) was a United States federal agency that was founded on March 3, 1915, to undertake, promote, and institutionalize aeronautical research. On October 1, 1958, the agency was dissolved and its ...

Langley transonic wind tunnel. * 1952 – Leonard S. Hobbs of United Aircraft Corp., for the design, development, and production of the Pratt & Whitney J57 jet engine. * 1953 – James H. Kindelberger for

North American Aviation North American Aviation (NAA) was a major American aerospace manufacturer that designed and built several notable aircraft and spacecraft. Its products included the T-6 Texan trainer, the P-51 Mustang fighter, the B-25 Mitchell bomber, the F- ...

's F-100 and Edward H. Heinemann for Douglas aircraft carrier based F4D. * 1954 – Richard T. Whitcomb for his discovery of the ''

area rule The Whitcomb area rule, named after NACA engineer Richard Whitcomb and also called the transonic area rule, is a design procedure used to reduce an aircraft's drag at transonic speeds which occur between about Mach 0.75 and 1.2. For supersoni ...

'', a design method for supersonic aircraft. * 1955 –

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's William M. Allen and General Nathan F. Twining

USAF The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its ori ...

for the development, production, and operation of the B-52. * 1956 – Charles J. McCarthy of Chance-Vaught Aircraft and Vice Admiral James S. Russell U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics for the F-8U Crusader the first operational aircraft capable of speeds exceeding . * 1957 – Edward P. Curtis for "Aviation Facilities Planning", the long-range planning addressing problems with aircraft, air space, and facilities. * 1958 – Clarence "Kelly" Johnson of Lockheed Skunk Works, and

Gerhard Neumann Gerhard Neumann (October 8, 1917 – November 2, 1997) was a German-American aviation engineer and executive for General Electric's aircraft engine division (which today is called GE Aerospace). Born and raised in Germany, he went to Chin ...

and Neil Burgess of GE, for leadership in the development of the F-104 Starfighter and its J79 engine. * 1959 –

US Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its ori ...

, Convair Division of

General Dynamics General Dynamics Corporation (GD) is an American publicly traded aerospace and defense corporation headquartered in Reston, Virginia. As of 2020, it was the fifth largest defense contractor in the world by arms sales and fifth largest in the Unit ...

, and Space Technology Laboratories for the development of the

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missile * 1960 – Vice Adm William F Raborn for directing the creation of the Polaris fleet ballistic missile system. * 1961 – North American Aviation with

Scott Crossfield Albert Scott Crossfield (October 2, 1921 – April 19, 2006) was an American United States Navy, naval officer and test pilot. In 1953, he became the first pilot to fly at twice the speed of sound. Crossfield was the first of twelve pilots who fl ...

, Joseph A. Walker, Robert Michael White and Forrest S. Petersen,

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test pilots. * 1962 –

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, group of first seven astronauts. * 1963 – Clarence "Kelly" Johnson, for his leadership at Lockheed's Skunk Works in the development of the A-12

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3 aircraft. * 1964 –

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"for development of high performance aircraft, missiles and space systems." * 1965 –

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and Hugh L. Dryden for the

Project Gemini Project Gemini () was the second United States human spaceflight program to fly. Conducted after the first American crewed space program, Project Mercury, while the Apollo program was still in early development, Gemini was conceived in 1961 and ...

. * 1966 – James McDonnell for development work in aeronautics and astronautics, specifically on the F-4 Phantom and

space vehicles. * 1967 – Lawrence "Pat" Hyland of

Hughes Aircraft The Hughes Aircraft Company was a major American aerospace company, aerospace and defense contractor founded on February 14, 1934 by Howard Hughes in Glendale, California, as a division of the Hughes Tool Company. The company produced the Hughes ...

's Surveyor program for placing the eyes, ears & hand of the United States on the Moon. * 1968 –

Apollo 8 Apollo 8 (December 21–27, 1968) was the first crewed spacecraft to leave Sphere of influence (astrodynamics), Earth's gravitational sphere of influence, and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. The crew orbited the Moon ten times ...

crew: Col. Frank Borman, USAF; Capt. James A. Lovell Jr., USN; Lt. Col. William A. Anders, USAF for the first lunar orbit. * 1969 –

Apollo 11 Apollo 11 was a spaceflight conducted from July 16 to 24, 1969, by the United States and launched by NASA. It marked the first time that humans Moon landing, landed on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and Lunar Module pilot Buzz Aldrin l ...

crew: Neil A. Armstrong, COL. Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., USAF; COL. Michael Collins, USAF for the first landing of man on the surface of the Moon, July 20, 1969. * 1970 –

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for their introduction of the

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. * 1971 –

David Scott David Randolph Scott (born June 6, 1932) is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the List of Apollo astronauts#People who have walked on the Moon, seventh person to walk on the Moon. Selected as part of the NASA Astronaut ...

James Irwin James Benson Irwin (March 17, 1930 – August 8, 1991) was an American astronaut, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and a United States Air Force Aviator, pilot. He served as Lunar Module pilot for Apollo 15, the fourth human lunar landin ...

, Alfred Worden, and Robert Gilruth of the

Apollo 15 Apollo 15 (July 26August 7, 1971) was the ninth crewed mission in the Apollo program and the fourth Moon landing. It was the first List of Apollo missions#Alphabetical mission types, J mission, with a longer stay on the Moon and a greate ...

mission. * 1972 – The Officers and Men of the

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and 8th Air Force of the

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and Task Force 77 of the

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for Operation Linebacker II. * 1973 – William C. Schneider and crews of the Skylab program * 1974 – John F. Clark of NASA and Daniel J. Fink of GE, representing NASA's Earth Resources Technology Satellite Program,

LANDSAT The Landsat program is the longest-running enterprise for acquisition of satellite imagery of Earth. It is a joint NASA / USGS program. On 23 July 1972, the Earth Resources Technology Satellite was launched. This was eventually renamed to Lan ...

for mankind's management of the Earth's resources and with recognition to

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and RCA. * 1975 – David S. Lewis Jr. of General Dynamics Corporation and the

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Air Force Industry Team. * 1976 -

and Rockwell International Corporation for the highly successful design, development, management, and flight test of the B-1 strategic aircraft system. * 1977 - Robert J. Dixon for his work on Red Flag. * 1978 - Sam B. Williams for development of the small, high-efficiency

turbofan A turbofan or fanjet is a type of airbreathing jet engine that is widely used in aircraft engine, aircraft propulsion. The word "turbofan" is a combination of references to the preceding generation engine technology of the turbojet and the add ...

. * 1979 - Paul MacCready for the MacCready Gossamer Albatross piloted by Bryan Allen made the first man-powered flight across the English Channel. * 1980 - Edward C. Stone representing the Voyager mission team's fly-by of

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. * 1981 -

NASA The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA ) is an independent agencies of the United States government, independent agency of the federal government of the United States, US federal government responsible for the United States ...

Rockwell International Rockwell International was a major American manufacturing conglomerate (company), conglomerate. It was involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avioni ...

Martin Marietta The Martin Marietta Corporation was an American company founded in 1961 through the merger of Glenn L. Martin Company and American-Marietta Corporation. In 1995, it merged with Lockheed Corporation to form Lockheed Martin. History Martin Marie ...

, and

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for the development of crewed reusable spacecraft noting astronauts John Young, Robert Crippen,

Joe Engle Joe Henry Engle (August 26, 1932 – July 10, 2024) was an American pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut. He was the commander of two Space Shuttle missions including STS-2 in 1981, the program's second orbital flight. He also flew ...

and Richard Truly. * 1982 - Thornton "T" Arnold Wilson and

for the

Boeing 757 The Boeing 757 is an American Narrow-body aircraft, narrow-body airliner designed and built by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. The then-named 7N7, a twinjet successor for the trijet Boeing 727, 727, received its first orders in August 1978. The ...

and the 767. * 1983 - The United States Army and Hughes Aircraft Helicopters for advanced weapons systems for the AH-64A Apache. * 1984 - Bruce McCandless and Charles E. Whitsett of

and Walter W. Bollendonk of

for their work on satellite rescue and repair. * 1985 - Russell W Meyer and

Cessna Cessna () is an American brand of general aviation aircraft owned by Textron Aviation since 2014, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas. Originally, it was a brand of the Cessna Aircraft Company, an American general aviation aircraft manufactu ...

Aircraft for the outstanding safety record of the Cessna Citation aircraft. * 1986 - Dick Rutan, Jeana Yeager,

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 ...

and the team of the first non-stop unrefueled

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of the Rutan Voyager. * 1987 - NASA Lewis Research Center and the NASA/industry advanced turboprop team for their work in new

turboprop A turboprop is a Gas turbine, gas turbine engine that drives an aircraft Propeller (aeronautics), propeller. A turboprop consists of an intake, reduction drive, reduction gearbox, gas compressor, compressor, combustor, turbine, and a propellin ...

technologies. * 1988 - Rear Admiral Richard H. Truly U.S. Navy for the successful return of America to space after the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster. * 1989 - Ben Rich of Lockheed and

team for the first stealth aircraft, the

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. * 1990 - Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey team for the first large

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aircraft.Maisel, Martin D., Demo J. Giulianetti and Daniel C. Dugan
NASA SP-2000-4517, "The History of the XV-15 Tilt Rotor Research Aircraft: From Concept to Flight" (PDF)
p155 ''

'', 2000. Accessed: 17 March 2012. * 1991 - The Northrop Grumman, Northrop Corporation, the Industry Team and the

for the Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit. * 1992 - Naval Research Laboratory, United States Air Force, US Air Force, Aerospace Corporation,

, and IBM Federal Systems Company for Global Positioning System (GPS). * 1993 - Corrective Optics Space Telescope Axial Replacement, The Hubble Space Telescope Recovery Team for the recovery and repair of the STS-61, Hubble Space Telescope. * 1994 - McDonnell Douglas, United States Air Force, US Air Force, and United States Army, US Army for developing and producing the C-17 Globemaster III. * 1995 - Boeing Commercial Airplanes for producing the Boeing 777. * 1996 - Cessna Aircraft Company for producing the Citation X the US's first commercial aircraft to cruise at .92

. * 1997 - Gulfstream Aerospace for producing the ultra-long range business jet the Gulfstream V. * 1998 - Lockheed Martin, GE Aviation, GE Aircraft Engines,

, Air Combat Command, and Defense Intelligence Agency for the Lockheed U-2#U-2R/S details, U-2S/ER-2 high altitude, all-weather, multi-functional data collection aircraft. * 1999 -

, GE Aviation, GE Aircraft Engines, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon Technologies, and

for the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, F/A-18E/F multi-mission strike fighter aircraft. * 2000 - Northrop Grumman, Rolls-Royce plc, Rolls-Royce, Raytheon, L-3 Communications,

, and DARPA for the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk. * 2001 - Pratt and Whitney, Lockheed Martin, Rolls-Royce plc, Rolls-Royce, BAE Systems, Northrop Grumman and the Joint Strike Fighter program Office for LiftFan Propulsion System. * 2002 - Sikorsky Aircraft and the Sikorsky S-92, S-92 team, led by Nicholas Lappos. * 2003 - Gulfstream Aerospace for the development of the G550, the first civil aircraft to include an Synthetic vision#Enhanced Vision, enhanced vision system as standard equipment. * 2004 -

, Paul Allen, Doug Shane, Mike Melvill, Brian Binnie, and the SpaceShipOne team for the first privately designed, funded, built, and flown commercial crewed space-launch vehicle. * 2005 - Eclipse Aviation for producing the Eclipse 500, the world's first very light jet. * 2006 -

, Lockheed Martin, BAE Systems,

, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Pratt and Whitney for producing the F-22 Raptor. * 2007 - Automatic Dependent Surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) team that includes AOPA, Air Line Pilots Association, International, ALPA, Cargo Airline Association, CAA, Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, ERAU, FAA, ITT Inc., ITT, Lockheed Martin,

, Mitre Corporation, MITRE, United Parcel Service, UPS, and L3Harris Technologies, ACSS for supporting Next Generation Air Transportation System, NextGen. * 2008 - The Commercial Aviation Safety Team (CAST) for reducing commercial scheduled airline fatalities. * 2009 - The International Space Station team including

, Draper Laboratory, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, United Launch Alliance, United Technologies for the world's largest spacecraft. * 2010 - The Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. Sikorsky X2 Technology Demonstrator team for revolutionary helicopter development. * 2011 -

for designing, building, delivering, and supporting the 787 Dreamliner. * 2012 -

/JPL Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity (rover), Curiosity project team for their successful Mars mission. * 2013 - Northrop Grumman/U.S. Navy/Industry team for designing, building, and demonstrating the X-47B; and for the aircraft's ability to autonomously operate from and perform arrested landings upon an aircraft carrier. * 2014 - Gulfstream Aerospace for producing the G650. * 2015 - The NASA-JPL Dawn Mission team for orbiting and exploring protoplanet 4 Vesta, Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres (dwarf planet), Ceres. * 2016 - The Blue Origin team for demonstrating rocket booster reusability with the New Shepard human spaceflight vehicle. * 2017 - Cirrus Aircraft for designing, certifying, and entering-into-service the SF50 Vision, the first single-engine personal jet; and for their inclusion of the Cirrus Airframe Parachute System (CAPS) on the aircraft. * 2018 - The Automatic Ground Collision Avoidance System (Auto-GCAS) team, which includes the Air Force Research Laboratory, Lockheed Martin, the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II, F-35 Joint Program Office, and NASA for lifesaving technology. * 2019 - The Boeing X-37, USAF-Boeing X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle Team for developing and employing the world's only reusable, autonomous spaceplane. * 2020 - Garmin for designing, developing, and fielding Autoland#Emergency autoland, Garmin Autoland – the world's first certified autonomous system that activates during an emergency to safely control and land an aircraft without human intervention. * 2021 - The

/JPL/''Ingenuity (helicopter), Ingenuity'' team for the first powered, controlled flight of an aircraft on another planet, thereby opening the skies of Mars and other worlds for future scientific discovery and exploration. * 2022 - NASA and Northrop Grumman for the James Webb Space Telescope "for its unprecedented discovery mission to explore, identify and photograph what lies beyond what is currently known and to seek what is unknown." * 2023 - NASA, Lockheed Martin, the University of Arizona and KinetX for OSIRIS-REx, the first American mission to gather an asteroid sample and its return to earth * 2024 - NASA and the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory for the Parker Solar Probe, which ventured deep into the Sun's corona, passing from the solar surface, seven times closer than any previous spacecraft, and setting a record for the fastest human-made object at a speed of , three times faster than any prior spacecraft.

Gallery

File:HoffmanCollierTrophyfromPresCoolidge.jpg, 1926 Collier Trophy President Calvin Coolidge presented to Edward L. Hoffman for the modern freefall

File:1927 Collier Trophy presented by President Coolidge to Charles Lawrance (cropped).jpg, 1927 Collier Trophy President Coolidge presented to Charles Lawrance for the air-cooled aircraft

File:Harold Frederick Pitcairn portrait in 1930 with the Collier Trophy.jpg, 1930 Collier Trophy recipient Harold Frederick Pitcairn for the

File:1933 Collier Trophy President Roosevelt congratulates Frank W. Caldwell.jpg, 1933 Collier Trophy President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Roosevelt congratulates Frank W. Caldwell of

for the Variable-pitch propeller (aeronautics), controllable-pitch propeller File:1939 Collier Trophy Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby, William Randolph Lovelace II, and Harry George Armstrong.jpg, 1939 Collier Trophy President Roosevelt congratulates US airlines Dr. Walter Meredith Boothby, William Randolph Lovelace II, and Harry George Armstrong File:Lew Rodert accepting the Collier Trophy from President Harry S Truman in December 1947.jpg, 1946 Collier Trophy President Harry S. Truman, Truman congratulates Lewis A. Rodert for the thermal aircraft de-icing, anti-icing File:1951CollierTrophy Truman n John Stack.jpg, 1952 Collier Trophy President Harry S. Truman, Truman congratulates John Stack for the National Transonic Facility, Langley transonic wind tunnel File:Vice President Nixon awards 1958 Collier Trophy.jpg, 1958 Collier Trophy with (L to R) Walter W. Irwin, Howard C. Johnson, Richard Nixon, US VP Nixon,

, Neil Burgess, Kelly Johnson (engineer), Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson File:1966CollierTrophyJames Smith McDonnell.jpg, 1966 Collier Trophy with James Smith McDonnell, James Smith McDonnell Jr. founder of McDonnell Aircraft Corporation for the F-4 Phantom and

File:Jsc2011e075769 orig.jpg, 1973 Collier Trophy Gerald R. Ford, VP Ford congratulates

Skylab Program Director William C. Schneider File:1992 CollierTrophyGPS.jpg, 1992 Collier Trophy for the Global Positioning System File:2011 Collier Trophy Recipient, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner, and Collier Selection Committee.jpg, 2011 Collier Trophy presented to

for the 787 Dreamliner File:2014 Collier Trophy Presentation, Northrop Grumman X-47B.JPG, 2013 Collier Trophy presented to Northrop Grumman/U.S. Navy for the X-47B File:2015 Collier Trophy Presentation, Gulfstream G-650.JPG, 2014 Collier Trophy presented to Gulfstream Aerospace, Gulfstream for the Gulfstream G650, G650

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External links

''One Hundred Years of the Collier Trophy''
"The The Oscar (film), Oscar of Aviation"-- Dick Rutan
The Collier Trophy
– contains listing of the winners up to 2006

* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdgf6y-ktLg] October 10, 1963 - President John F. Kennedy remarks upon presenting the Collier Trophy to the Mercury Seven

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