RECENT BRANCH AWARD WINNERS
- VFS Technical Fellow
- Larry Young
- Howard Hughes Award
- Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Team
2022 Vertical Flight Society Awards
- Distinguished Service Medal
- Gloria K. Yamauchi
- Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Medal
- Shannah N. Withrow–Maser
- Early Career Achievement Medal
- Haley V. Cummings
- Exceptional Engineering Achievement Medal
- Robert Kufeld
- Outstanding Leadership Medal
- Carl Russell
- Group Achievement Award
- Ames Aero Fair Educational Outreach Team
2021 NASA Honor Award Recipients
- Group Achievement Award
- Ames Mars Helicopter Outreach Team
- Group Achievement Award
- Ames Mars Helicopter Team
- Group Achievement Award
- NFAC Aerodyanamics and Aeroacoustics Rotoprop Test
- Group Achievement Award
- UAM Conceptual Design Toolchain Workshop Team
- Group Achievement Award
- UAM Quadcopter Flight Dynamics Team
- Mentor Category
- Thomas R. Norman
- Contractor Employee
- Brenda Natalia Perez Perez
- Special Appreciation
- Susan Gorton
2021 NASA Ames Honor Award Winners
- Franklin Award:
- 2022 – UAM Quadcopter Handling Qualities VMS Test Team: Carlos Malpica
- Award for Outstanding Contribution to the VFS Local Chapter:
- 2022 –SFBAC Transformative Vertical Flight 2022 Leadership Team: Colin Theodore, Buvana Jayaraman, Carl Russell, Meridith Segall
- Velkoff Award:
- 2022 – Tom Norman
2022 Vertical Flight Society SFBAC Awards
- Franklin Award:
- 2021 – NFAC Aerodynamic & Acoustic Rotoprop Test Team: Joe Sacco and Natasha Schatzman
- Award for Outstanding Technical Support:
- 2021 – TDD-A/DSE Automation Team (Sukhdev Sandhu), and Meridith Segall
2021 Vertical Flight Society SFBAC Awards
- 2021 AIAA San Francisco Section Young Professional of the Year Award
Shannah Withrow–Maser
- Schroers Award
- 2020 – Mars Helicopter Development Team: Larry Young
- Franklin Award:
- 2020 – NASA/Army Multirotor Testbed Wind Tunnel Test Team: Carl Russell
- Award for Outstanding Technical Support:
- 2020 – Catherine Dow
- Award for Outstanding Contribution to the VFS Local Chapter:
- 2020 – Natasha Schatzman
2020 Vertical Flight Society SFBAC Awards
- Velkoff Award
- Witold Koning, Wayne Johnson, and Hávard Grip
- Franklin Award
- The 609/Tiltrotor Test Rig Test Team
- 2019 MTB test program in the 7- by 10-Foot Wind Tunnel
- Lifetime Achievement Award
- Wally Acree
2019 Vertical Flight Society SFBAC Awards
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