Aviation Week's `Top 100 Stars of Aerospace' to Select and Celebrate All-time Aerospace Legends and Leaders.Business Editors NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 4, 2002 Program Commemorates Flight Centennial with Online Ballot, Special Issue and Gala Paris Air Show The Paris Air Show (Salon International de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Paris-Le Bourget) is an international trade fair for the aerospace business. It is held at Le Bourget airport near Paris, France every odd year, alternating both with the Farnborough International Event The global international aviation community will select the world's most significant aerospace heroes, leaders, and movers and shakers Shakers, popular name for members of the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, also called the Millennial Church. Members of the movement, who received their name from the trembling produced by religious emotion, were also known as Alethians. of flight when voting commences for Aviation Week's "Top 100 Stars of Aerospace." The Top 100 program, part of Aviation Week's The Next Century of Flight (NCF See National Cristina Foundation. ) education and outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. initiative, is being produced in partnership with the International Council of the Aeronautical aer·o·nau·tic also aer·o·nau·ti·cal adj. Of or relating to aeronautics. aer  o·nau Sciences
(ICAS ICAS Institute of Chartered Accountants of ScotlandICAS Independent Complaints Advocacy Service (UK NHS) ICAS International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences ICAS International Council of Airshows ) and its U.S. affiliate, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the professional society for the field of aerospace engineering. The AIAA was founded in 1963 from the merger of four earlier societies: the American Rocket Society (ARS), founded in 1930 as the (AIAA AIAA American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Inc. AIAA Associate Insurance Agency Administration (LOMA insurance program) AIAA Aerospace Industries Association of America, Inc. ). Top 100 winners will be announced in the Paris Air Show 2003 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology, and celebrated at a gala dinner event Wednesday evening, June 18, 2003 in Paris. The online ballot, which is being compiled with leading aviation historians and experts, will feature approximately 750 nominees from around the world in 15 categories of accomplishment covering all aspects of flight. The ballot will be launched in the first quarter of 2003 at www.AviationNow.com, and will be open only to ICAS members (32 affiliates around the world, including the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics), Aviation Week group readers, registered AviationNow.com web users, and Next Century of Flight partners for just 40 days. "We are asking industry professionals around the world to voice their opinion by selecting the heroes and leaders they think have had the greatest impact on aviation," said Stanley W. Kandebo, Aviation Week & Space Technology's Managing Editor for Technology and Aviation Week's NCF editorial director. "The Top 100 Stars of Aerospace is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the entire global aviation and aerospace industry to honor its proud past and inspire tomorrow's leaders, the young people who will shape the next century of flight." About Aviation Week: With nearly 50 products and services and a core audience of some one million professionals and enthusiasts, Aviation Week, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the world's premier multimedia information and service provider to the aviation and aerospace market. The Next Century of Flight leverages all of the assets of the Aviation Week group to promote aerospace education and careers around the world. The program is currently supported by these partners: - Air Transport Association of America and participating ATA member airlines: Alaska Airlines, America West Airlines, Delta Air Lines, Midwest Express Airlines - American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Bombardier Aerospace - Centurion Press, Ltd. - Federal Aviation Administration - Festival of Flight, Fayetteville, NC - GIFAS, the French Aerospace Industries Association - McGraw-Hill Education - National Business Aviation Association's AvKids program - Parker Hannifin - Society of British Aerospace Companies - U.S. Centennial of Flight Commission - Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center - Plus the ongoing collaboration of NASA Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : MHP MHP Multimedia Home Platform (consumer electronics) MHP Milliyetci Hareket Partisi (Turkish: National People's Party) MHP Mobile Home Park (district) MHP Maximum Human Performance ) is a global information services See Information Systems. provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. , education and business information markets through leading brands such as Standard & Poor's, BusinessWeek and McGraw-Hill Education. The Corporation has more than 350 offices in 33 countries. Sales in 2001 were $4.6 billion. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com. About AIAA: AIAA is the world's largest aerospace professional/technical society, the leading information provider and the principal voice - devoted to the progress of engineering and science in all aspects of aviation, space and defense - on behalf of industry, academia and government. Additional information is available at www.aiaa.org. About ICAS: The International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences (ICAS) is a non-government, non-profit scientific organization established in 1957 to encourage the free interchange of information on aeronautical subjects. 32 recognized National Associations of the world dedicated to the advancement of the science and engineering of aviation and space are ICAS members. In addition, it is supported by aerospace companies, scientific and technical institutions acting as associates. The objective of ICAS is to organize on this international basis a worldwide forum and bi-annual Congress for the discussion and international interchange of aeronautical science and technology subjects and visions. For further details see: http://www.icas.org/ |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion