The Grover E. Bell Award this year presented to the Tiltrotor Aeroelastic Stability Testbed (TRAST) Wind Tunnel Test Team from the US Army Research Lab (ARL), the Army’s DEVCOM AvMC, and NASA. The tests conducted by the TRAST Team demonstrated the effects of a wide range of tiltrotor design parameters on aeroelastic stability, including blade flap-pitch (delta-3) angles, blade structural properties, gimbal hub damping and stiffness, pylon yaw stiffness, and pylon pitch stiffness. Accepting the award on behalf of the Team were Dr. Hao Kang, Andrew Kreschock and Elias Rigas of the Army Research Laboratory (ARL), and Dr. Hyeonsoo Yeo and Tom Maier of AvMC.
The 80th Annual Grand Awards Banquet was held at Forum 80 on May 9, 2024, at the Palais des congrès de Montréal in Montréal, Canada. The banquet was sponsored this year by Unither Bioelectronics. (VFS photo by Warren Liebmann. CC BY-SA 4.0)
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