The Ray E. Tenhoff Award recognizes the most outstanding technical paper presented at the annual Society of Experimental Test Pilots

Society of Experimental Test Pilots

The Society of Experimental Test Pilots is an international organization that seeks to promote air safety and contributes to aeronautical advancement by promoting sound aeronautical design and development; interchanging ideas, thoughts and suggestions of the members, assisting in the professional...

 (SETP) Symposium in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California...

. The award was established in 1962 and is given in memory of Convair

Convair

Convair was an American aircraft manufacturing company which later expanded into rockets and spacecraft. The company was formed in 1943 by the merger of Vultee Aircraft and Consolidated Aircraft, and went on to produce a number of pioneering aircraft, such as the Convair B-36 bomber, and the F-102...

 test pilot

Test pilot

A test pilot is an aviator who flies new and modified aircraft in specific maneuvers, known as flight test techniques or FTTs, allowing the results to be measured and the design to be evaluated....

, Ray E. Tenhoff, founder and first president of SETP. Tenhoff was killed in B-58 Hustler

B-58 Hustler

The Convair B-58 Hustler was the first operational supersonic jet bomber capable of Mach 2 flight. The aircraft was designed by Convair engineer Robert H. Widmer and developed for the United States Air Force for service in the Strategic Air Command during the 1960s...

 accident on April 22, 1960.

Criteria

The award is determined by a panel of judges at the completion of the annual SETP Symposium in Los Angeles, California. The award, consisting of a plaque and cash honorarium, is presented at the annual Awards Banquet.

Recipients

Recipients of this award, from 1962 to present, include:

• 1962—Thomas P. Frost
• 1963—Donald R. Segner
• 1964—Glenn M. Gray
• 1965—Drury W. Wood, Jr.
• 1966—Fred W. Haise, Jr.
  Fred Haise
  Fred Wallace Haise, Jr. is an engineer and former NASA astronaut. He is one of only 24 people to have flown to the Moon. Having flown on Apollo 13, Haise was to be the sixth human to walk on the Moon, but the mission did not land due to a failure aboard the spacecraft.-Early life and...
  
  
• 1967—Drury W. Wood, Jr.
• 1968—Olle Klinker and Erik Dahlstrom
• 1969—Larry G. Van Pelt
• 1970—James Pollitt
• 1971—Norm Driscoll
• 1972—Paul S. Norton
• 1973—Flt Lt John Potter, RAF
• 1974—Karl-Eric Henriksson
• 1975—Charles C. Bock, Jr.
• 1976—Lt Col John H. Taylor, USAF
• 1977—Raymond L. McPherson
• 1978—A. Scott Crossfield
  Albert Scott Crossfield
  Albert Scott Crossfield was an American naval officer and test pilot.-Biography:Born in Berkeley, California, Crossfield grew up in California and Washington. He served with the U.S. Navy as a flight instructor and fighter pilot during World War II...
  
  
• 1979—John E. Krings
• 1980—LCDR Richard N. Richards
  Richard N. Richards
  Richard Noel "Dick" Richards is an American aviator, retired US Navy officer, and a former NASA astronaut. He flew aboard four Space Shuttle missions in the 1980s and 1990s.-Military career:...
  
  , USN and Carroll D. Pilcher
• 1981—Maj Ivan M. Behel, USMC and William B. McNamera
• 1982—G. Warren Hall and LTC Robert K. Merrill, USA
• 1983—Charles A. Sewell
• 1984—G. Warren Hall and LTC Patrick M. Morris, USA
• 1985—Stephen Ishmael and Lt Col Ted Wierzbanowski, USAF
• 1986—Lt Col Frank T. Birk
• 1987—William H. Dana
  William H. Dana
  -Career:Dana was born in Pasadena, California, November 3, 1930, received his Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy in 1952 and served four years as a pilot in the U.S. Air Force...
  
   and Nicholas D. Lappos
• 1988—Laurence A. Walker and Lt Col William R. Neely, Jr., USAF
• 1989—LCDR Mike Carriker, USN and SqnLdr David Southwood, RAF
• 1990—LCDR Kent Rominger, USN and Jennings Bryant, NATC
• 1991—Capt Chris A. Hadfield, RCAF and Sharon W. Houck
• 1992—C. Gordon Fullerton
  C. Gordon Fullerton
  Charles Gordon Fullerton is a retired United States Air Force officer, a former USAF and NASA astronaut and retired research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California...
  
   and Maj Regis Hancock, USAF
• 1993—C. Gordon Fullerton
  C. Gordon Fullerton
  Charles Gordon Fullerton is a retired United States Air Force officer, a former USAF and NASA astronaut and retired research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Facility, Edwards, California...
  
  
• 1994—Maj William J. Norton, USAF and Maj Pamela A. Melroy
  Pamela Melroy
  Pamela Anne Melroy is a retired United States Air Force officer and a former NASA astronaut. She served as pilot on Space Shuttle missions STS-92 and STS-112 and commanded mission STS-120.-Early life and education:...
  
  , USAF
• 1995—Capt Ricardo Traven, CAF, Susan E. Whitley and F. Alan Frazier
• 1996—Capt Maurice Girard, CAF and Capt Stuart McIntosh, CAF
• 1997—Capt Greg Weber, USAF and Maj Kevin Christensen, USAF
• 1998—Ricardo Traven, John Hagan
• 1999—Ralph Johnston and Robert Ryan
• 2000—Horst Philipp
• 2001—Maj Tim McDonald, USAF and Steve Barter
• 2002—Ricardo Traven, The Boeing Company
• 2003—Burt Rutan
  Burt Rutan
  Elbert Leander "Burt" Rutan is an American aerospace engineer noted for his originality in designing light, strong, unusual-looking, energy-efficient aircraft...
  
  , Doug Shane
  Doug Shane
  Douglas B. Shane is an American test pilot and 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 experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites...
  
  
• 2004—Bill Gray
• 2005—Norman Howell
• 2006—Maj Douglas Wickert, USAF
• 2007—Justin Paines, QinetiQ; Buddy Denham, Naval Air Systems Command
• 2008—Lt Col Daniel D. Daetz, USAF; Maj Jack D. Fischer, USAF; Brian Knaup, Dept. of the USAF
• 2009—Robert A. Rivers, NASA