Aviation Week & Space Technology Names Annual Laureates Hall of Fame Award Winners to be Enshrined At National Air & Space Museum.Business Editors WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 25, 2001 Aviation and aerospace leaders, space explorers, a Russian/U.S. rocket development team, U.S. Coast Guard heroes and an innovator in electronics will be inducted tonight into the Aviation Week & Space Technology Laureates Hall of Fame at a gala dinner at the Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Institution, research and education center, at Washington, D.C.; founded 1846 under terms of the will of James Smithson of London, who in 1829 bequeathed his fortune to the United States to create an establishment for the "increase and diffusion of National Air & Space Museum. The Laureates, one of the industry's highest honors, were born in 1957 with the launch of AW&ST's annual Laurels Award to recognize individual and team accomplishments in aviation and aerospace. In 1989, the Laureate lau·re·ate adj. 1. Worthy of the greatest honor or distinction: "The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag" James Traub. 2. award was added to honor As a verb, to accept a bill of exchange, or to pay a note, check, or accepted bill, at maturity. To pay or to accept and pay, or, where a credit so engages, to purchase or discount a draft complying with the terms of the draft. extraordinary achievements in aviation and aerospace. And in 1997, the magazine launched the Laureates Hall of Fame, a permanent public archive of Laureate honorees and legendary Laurels winners. Laureate recipients are permanently enshrined in the Hall of Fame, which is anchored by a display in the Air and Space Museum. The 2000 Aviation Week & Space Technology Laureate recipients are:
Commercial Air Transport John H. Dasburg, former president/CEO,
Northwest Airlines
Aeronautics/Propulsion Mauricio Botelho, president/CEO,
Embraer Aircraft
RD-180 Atlas Rocket Team
(Energomash, Lockheed Martin,
Pratt & Whitney)
Government/Military John J. Hamre, president/CEO, Center for
Strategic and International Studies
Space The Mars Global Surveyor Team
Electronics Larry W. Fullerton, founder/chief
technology officer, Time Domain Corp.
Operations U.S. Coast Guard HH 60 crew members Lt.
Dan Molthen, Lt. (jg.)
Craig Neubecker, AST1
Darren Reeves, AMT2 Lorne Green
Lifetime Achievement Jean-Luc Lagardere, chairman/CEO,
Lagardere Group and co-chairman, EADS
Laureate Legends Roger-Maurice Bonnet, William Lear,
Brian Rowe, Wally Schirra,
Thomas Stafford
"Tonight, we recognize the incredible accomplishments of some extraordinary people," said Kenneth E. Gazzola, AVIATION WEEK executive vice president/publisher. "Their accomplishments are a testament to the spirit and dedication of the global aerospace community, and the courage, ingenuity and passion that drive these exceptional achievers." Aviation Week & Space Technology is the world's leading aviation and aerospace industry magazine, covering technology, business and operations in the commercial, military and space markets for more than 100,000 paid subscribers in 130 countries. It is the cornerstone cornerstone Ceremonial building block, dated or otherwise inscribed, usually placed in an outer wall of a building to commemorate its dedication. Often the stone is hollowed out to contain newspapers, photographs, or other documents reflecting current customs, with a view to of the AVIATION WEEK division of The McGraw-Hill Companies. www.AviationNow.com expands the company's extensive web presence by delivering the most comprehensive real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. news, professional information and e-business Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the portal in the global aviation/aerospace industry. 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 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-to-business information through leading brands such as Standard & Poor's, BusinessWeek and McGraw-Hill Education. The Corporation has more than 300 offices in 32 countries. Sales in 2000 were $4.3 billion. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com. |
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