The Iven C. Kincheloe Award recognizes outstanding professional accomplishment in the conduct of flight testing

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....

. It was established in 1958 by the 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...

 and honors the memory of 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....

 and Korean War

Korean War

The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...

 ace

Flying ace

A flying ace or fighter ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat. The actual number of aerial victories required to officially qualify as an "ace" has varied, but is usually considered to be five or more...

 Iven C. Kincheloe, United States Air Force

United States Air Force

The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...

, who died during flight testing.

Criteria

The Society lists three criteria for nominations to this award:

1. The recipient must be a living member of the Society.
2. The accomplishment, or significant portion of the accomplishment, must have occurred in the past year (From July 1)
3. The accomplishment must involve actual flight testing conducted by the individual, while in a test pilot role, and represent an outstanding contribution to an aerospace program.

Recipients

Recipients of this award, from 1958 to present, include:

• 1958
  • James R. Gannett, Boeing First Commercial Jet
  • Joseph John "Tym" Tymczyszyn
    Joseph John "Tym" Tymczyszyn
    Joseph John "Tym" Tymczyszyn was an American Test Pilot for the United States Army Air Corps and the Federal Aviation Administration.-Early life:...
    
    , CAA First Commercial Jet

• 1959
  • Robert G. Ferry, Maj USAF, XV-3 Convertiplane

• 1960
  • A. Scott Crossfield, North American X-15 Program
  • William M. Magruder, Douglas DC-8 Flight Test Program

• 1961
  • Joseph A. Walker
    Joseph A. Walker
    Joseph Albert "Joe" Walker was an American NASA test pilot, and member of the U.S. Air Force Man In Space Soonest program. In 1963, he made two X-15 Experimental rocket aircraft flights beyond the altitude of 100 kilometers - at the edge of outer space...
    
    , NASA X-15 Program
  • Robert M. White
    Robert M. White
    Major General Robert Michael "Bob" White was a military aircraft test pilot and a major general in the United States Air Force...
    
    , Maj USAF

• 1962
  • Donald W. McCracken, McDonnell F-4 Mach Investigation

• 1963
  • Astronaut Team, NASA Mercury Program
    • Scott Carpenter
      Scott Carpenter
      Malcolm Scott Carpenter is an American engineer, former test pilot, astronaut, and aquanaut. He is best known as one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959....
      
      , LCDR USN
    • Leroy G. Cooper
      Gordon Cooper
      Leroy Gordon Cooper, Jr. , also known as Gordon Cooper, was an American aeronautical engineer, test pilot and NASA astronaut. Cooper was one of the seven original astronauts in Project Mercury, the first manned space effort by the United States...
      
      , Maj USAF
    • John H. Glenn, Jr. Lt Col USMC
    • Virgil I. Grissom, Capt USAF
    • Walter M. Schirra, CDR USN
    • Alan B. Shepard, CDR USN
    • Donald K. Slayton
      Deke Slayton
      Donald Kent Slayton , better known as Deke Slayton, was an American World War II pilot and later, one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts....
      
      , Maj USAF

• 1964
  • Pilots of YF12A (A-11) Lockheed Super-Secret Project
    • Louis W. Schalk
    • William C. Park
    • Robert J. Gilliland
    • James D. Eastham

• 1965
  • Alvin S. White
    Alvin S. White
    Alvin Swauger White was an American test pilot, engineer, and a USAF astronaut. He flew the maiden flights of both XB-70 Valkyrie aircraft, the first 2,000 mph flight, and all subsequent Mach 3 flights.-Biography:...
    
    , North American XB-70 Supersonic Flight

• 1966
  • Milton Orville Thompson, NASA M2/F2-Lifting Body Program

• 1967
  • Richard L. Johnson
    Dick Johnson (test pilot)
    Richard Lowe "Dick" Johnson is best known for being chief test pilot for Convair, a division of American defence contractor General Dynamics and being a founding member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots in 1955....
    
    , for the General Dynamics F-111
    General Dynamics F-111
    The General Dynamics F-111 "Aardvark" was a medium-range interdictor and tactical strike aircraft that also filled the roles of strategic bomber, reconnaissance, and electronic warfare in its various versions. Developed in the 1960s by General Dynamics, it first entered service in 1967 with the...
    
     test Program

• 1968
  • Drury W. Wood, Jr, Dornier Werke DO31 Test Program-VTOL Flight

• 1969
  • Jerauld R. Gentry
    Jerauld R. Gentry
    Jerauld Richard "Jerry" Gentry was a United States Air Force test pilot and Vietnam combat veteran. As chief USAF pilot of the Lifting Body Research Program, he helped validate the concept of flying a wingless vehicle back to Earth from space and landing it like an aircraft—an approach used...
    
    , Maj USAF, NASA/FRC Lifting Body Program
  • James A. McDivitt, Col USAF/NASA Apollo IX Mission, test of LM maneuvering

• 1970
  • Darryl G. Greenamyer, Lockheed World speed record for piston engine airplane
  • Apollo XI Team Moon landing and return
    • Neil A. Armstrong NASA
    • Edwin E. Aldrin, Col USAF/NASA
    • Michael Collins
      Michael Collins (astronaut)
      Michael Collins is a former American astronaut and test pilot. Selected as part of the third group of fourteen astronauts in 1963, he flew in space twice. His first spaceflight was Gemini 10, in which he and command pilot John Young performed two rendezvous with different spacecraft and Collins...
      
      , Col USAF/NASA

• 1971
  • Andre Turcat
    André Edouard Turcat
    French Major André Edouard Turcat, born October 23, 1921, is a former French test pilot.A graduate of France's prestigious École Polytechnique, Turcat joined the Free French air force during the final years of World War II and stayed with Armée de l'Air after the war...
    
    , Aerospatiale, Concorde
    Concorde
    Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde was a turbojet-powered supersonic passenger airliner, a supersonic transport . It was a product of an Anglo-French government treaty, combining the manufacturing efforts of Aérospatiale and the British Aircraft Corporation...
    
     joint test program
  • Brian Trubshaw
    Brian Trubshaw
    Ernest Brian Trubshaw, CBE, MVO was a notable test pilot, and the first British pilot to fly Concorde, in April 1969....
    
    , British Aircraft Corporation, Concorde joint test program

• 1972
  • Apollo XVI Crew Moon landing and return
    • John W. Young, CAPT USN, NASA
    • Thomas K. Mattingly CDR USN/NASA
    • Charles M. Duke
      Charles Moss Duke, Jr.
      Charles Moss Duke, Jr. is a retired US Air Force brigadier general, and a former United States astronaut and aerospace engineer for NASA...
      
      , Lt Col USAF/NASA
  • Donald R. Segner, Lockheed-California For accomplishments in Company testing the Cheyenne helicopter

• 1973
  • Charles A. Sewell, Grumman Aerospace Spin Prevention Testing in a Grumman F-14A Tomcat.

• 1974
  • Irving L. Burrows, McDonnell Aircraft Outstanding professional Company contributions as a test pilot during F15A development program

• 1975
  • John E. Krings, McDonnell Aircraft As Project Pilot on F15A Company high angle of attack characteristics test program

• 1976
  • Charles C. Bock, Jr, Rockwell International For his outstanding accomplishments on the B-1 Program

• 1977
  • Fitzhugh L. Fulton
    Fitzhugh L. Fulton
    Fitzhugh L. "Fitz" Fulton Jr. is a retired civilian research pilot at NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from August 1, 1966, until July 3, 1986, following 23 years of service as a pilot in the U.S...
    
    , Jr, NASA/Dryden Flight 747/Space Shuttle Carrier Research Center

• 1978
  • James M. Patton Jr, NASA/Langley Research Stall/Spin Flight Research Center
  • Fred W. Haise, Jr, NASA/JSC Space Shuttle
  • Joe H. Engle, Col, USAF
  • Charles Fullerton, Lt Col USAF
  • Richard H. Truly
    Richard H. Truly
    Richard Harrison Truly is a retired Vice Admiral in the United States Navy, Naval Aviator, former astronaut, and was the eighth Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from 1989 to 1992...
    
    , CDR USN

• 1979
  • Philip F. Oestricher, General Dynamics Corp. F-16 Flight Test Program
  • Robert C. Ettinger, Lt Col USAF

• 1980
  • Dorman A. Cannon, Bell Helicopter Textron Tilt Rotor XV-15
  • Ronald G. Erhart, Bell Helicopter Textron
    Bell Helicopter Textron
    Bell Helicopter is an American rotorcraft manufacturer headquartered in Hurst, Texas, near Fort Worth. A division of Textron, Bell manufactures military helicopter and tiltrotor products in and around Fort Worth, as well as in Amarillo, Texas, and commercial rotorcraft products in Mirabel, Quebec,...
    
    

• 1981
  • John W. Young, NASA Space Shuttle Columbia
    Space Shuttle Columbia
    Space Shuttle Columbia was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before being destroyed during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th, STS-107. All seven crew...
    
    
  • Robert L. Crippen, CAPT USN

• 1982
  • Thomas C. McMurtry, NASA AD-1
    NASA AD-1
    -References:CitationsBibliography* AD-1 Construction Completed, Dryden X-Press, Feb. 23, 1979, p. 2.* Robert E. Curry and Alex G. Sim, In-Flight Total Forces, Moments, and Static Aeroelastic Characteristics of an Oblique-Wing Research Airplane * Robert E. Curry and Alexander G...
    
     Oblique Wing
    Oblique wing
    An oblique wing is a variable geometry wing concept. On an aircraft so equipped, the wing is designed to rotate on center pivot, so that one tip is swept forward while the opposite tip is swept aft...
    
     Program

• 1983
  • John M. Hoffman, Lt Col USAF For Outstanding contribution to the derivative F-15 fighter planes

• 1984
  • Donald L. Bloom, Bell Helicopter 0H-58C helicopter spin phenomena
  • Charles A. Sewell, Grumman Aerospace Low Altitude high angle Corporation of attack, asymmetric thrust flight test program on the F-14 Tomcat.

• 1985
  • William W. Lowe, McDonnell Douglas AV-8B High Angle of Attack Corporation Test Program

• 1986
  • David A. Kerzie, Lockheed Corp. U-2/TR-1 extremely high altitude investigative and exploratory flights to determine flutter characteristics.

• 1987
  • Guy Mitaux-Maurouard, Avions Marcel Dassault Rafale Flight Test Program
  • Dick Rutan
    Dick Rutan
    Richard Glenn "Dick" Rutan is an aviator who piloted the Voyager aircraft around the world non-stop with co-pilot Jeana Yeager...
    
    , Voyager Aircraft, Inc. Successful around-the-world non-stop, non-refueled flight of the Voyager aircraft
  • Jeana Yeager
    Jeana Yeager
    Jeana Yeager is an aviator. She is most famous for co-piloting a non-stop, non-refueled flight around the world in the Rutan Voyager aircraft from 14 to 23 December 1986. The flight took 9 days, 3 minutes, and 44 seconds and covered 24,986 miles , more than doubling the old distance record set by...
    
    , Voyager Aircraft, Inc.

• 1988
  • Channing S. Morse, McDonnell Douglas NOTAR
    NOTAR
    NOTAR is the name of a helicopter anti-torque system which replaces the use of a tail rotor. Developed by McDonnell Douglas Helicopter Systems , the name is an acronym derived from the phrase NO TAil Rotor...
    
     Helicopter, Helicopter Company Development Program

• 1989
  • Addison S. Thompson, Rockwell International B-1B high alpha envelope
  • Randy Gaston, Lt Col USAF, expansion and flight control system development
  • William C. Park, Jr, Lockheed Aircraft Corp. Research and development
  • N. Kenneth Dyson, Lt Col USAF, flights of prototype

• 1990
  • Bruce J. Hinds, Jr. Northrop Corporation B-2 Flight Test Program
  • Richard S. Couch, Col USAF

• 1991
  • Paul Metz
    Paul Metz
    Paul Metz was a Danish field hockey player who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was a member of the Danish field hockey team, which won the silver medal.-External links:*...
    
    , Northrop Corporation YF-23 ATF Prototype
  • David L. Ferguson, Lockheed Corporation YF-22 ATF Prototype

• 1992
  • Daniel C. Brandenstein, CAPT USN Space Shuttle/Satellite Recovery

• 1993
  • Allan T. Reed, McDonnell Douglas T-45
    T-45 Goshawk
    |-Avionics:Data from naval-technology.com *Smiths Industries, Ltd. AN/USN-2 Standard Attitude Heading and Reference System . Later replaced by the BAE/Marconi AN/ASN-180 Navigation Guidance System ....
    
     High Angle of Attack and Corporation Flying Qualities & Spin Evaluation

• 1994
  • Christopher J. Yeo, British Aerospace Eurofighter 2000 Flight Test
  • Peter Weger, Deutsche Aerospace Program

• 1995
  • John E. Cashman, The Boeing Company 777 Flight Test Program

• 1996
  • Erwin Danuwinata, IPTN Expansion and flight tests leading to FAA/JAA certification
  • Ken Dyson & Richard Thomas, Tacit Blue Program (Retroactive 1982)
  • Jon S. Beesley, USAF F-117 Combined Test Force, Harold C. Farley Lockheed
    Lockheed Martin
    Lockheed Martin is an American global aerospace, defense, security, and advanced technology company with worldwide interests. It was formed by the merger of Lockheed Corporation with Martin Marietta in March 1995. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland, in the Washington Metropolitan Area....
    
    , David L. Ferguson Lockheed & Thomas A. Morgenfeld Lockheed (Retroactive 1983)

• 1997
  • Douglas B. Shane, Scaled Composites V-Jet II and Vision Aire Vantage

• 1998
  • Gary Freeman
    Gary Freeman
    Gary Freeman is the name of:*Gary Freeman , sculptor from Indianapolis, Indiana*Gary Freeman , NBA player in 1970*Gary Freeman , New Zealand rugby league player...
    
    , Gulfstream Aerospace
    Gulfstream Aerospace
    Gulfstream Aerospace Corporation is a producer of several models of jet aircraft. Gulfstream has been a unit of General Dynamics since 1999.The company has produced more than 1,500 aircraft for corporate, government, private, and military customers around the world...
    
     G-V Certification Test Program

• 1999
  • Mike Melvill
    Mike Melvill
    Michael Winston "Mike" Melvill is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, thus becoming the first commercial astronaut and the 434th...
    
    , Scaled Composites
    Scaled Composites
    Scaled Composites is an aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman that is located at the Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California, United States...
    
     Proteus
    Scaled Composites Proteus
    The Scaled Composites Model 281 Proteus is a tandem-wing high-endurance aircraft designed by Burt Rutan to investigate the use of aircraft as high altitude telecommunications relays. The Proteus is actually a multi-mission vehicle, able to carry various payloads on a ventral pylon...
    
     high-altitude multimission aircraft

• 2000
  • Jeremy Tracy, GKN Westland Helicopters
    Westland Helicopters
    Westland Helicopters was a British aerospace company. Originally Westland Aircraft, the company focused on helicopters after the Second World War. It merged with several other British firms in 1961...
    
    

• 2001
  • Wg Cdr Rajiv Kothiyal, Indian AF

• 2002
  • Herb Moran

• 2003
  • Thomas L. Macdonald, Bell-Boeing High Rate of Descent (HROD) testing for the V-22 Osprey
    V-22 Osprey
    The Bell Boeing V-22 Osprey is an American multi-mission, military, tiltrotor aircraft with both a vertical takeoff and landing , and short takeoff and landing capability...
    
    

• 2004
  • Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne Test Team
    • Mike Melvill
      Mike Melvill
      Michael Winston "Mike" Melvill is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites. Melvill piloted SpaceShipOne on its first flight past the edge of space, flight 15P on June 21, 2004, thus becoming the first commercial astronaut and the 434th...
      
      
    • Brian Binnie
      Brian Binnie
      William Brian Binnie is a former United States Navy officer and is one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites.-History:...
      
      
    • Peter Siebold
      Peter Siebold
      Peter Siebold is a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team and was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites...
      
      

• 2005
  • Randy Neville, Boeing F-22

• 2006
  • Norman E. Howell, Boeing, C-17

• 2007
  • Jon S. Beesley, Lockheed Martin, F-35A and Bird of Prey Test Team (Retroactive from 1997)
  • Rudy Haug, Boeing
  • Doug Benjamin, Boeing
  • Joe Felock, Boeing

• 2008
  • Terry E. Tomeny, Calspan Corporation Eclipse
    Eclipse 500
    The Eclipse 500 is a small six-seat business jet aircraft manufactured by Eclipse Aviation.Eclipse 500 became the first of a new class of Very Light Jet when it was delivered in late 2006...
    
    

• 2009
  • Peter Siebold
    Peter Siebold
    Peter Siebold is a member of the Scaled Composites astronaut team and was one of the test pilots for SpaceShipOne, the experimental spaceplane developed by Scaled Composites...
    
    , Scaled Composites
    Scaled Composites
    Scaled Composites is an aerospace company founded by Burt Rutan and currently owned by Northrop Grumman that is located at the Mojave Spaceport, Mojave, California, United States...
    
    

• 2010
  • Michael Carriker, Boeing

• 2011
  • Kevin Bredenbeck, Sikorsky Aircraft, X2 Demonstrator
    Sikorsky X2
    The Sikorsky X2 is an experimental compound helicopter with coaxial rotors developed by the American aircraft manufacturer Sikorsky Aircraft. It is considered to be the fastest helicopter ever produced.-Design and development:...