NEW YORK - Aviation Week recently announced the finalists for the 2013 Laureate Awards, which celebrate the extraordinary achievements by individuals and teams in the aviation, aerospace and defense communities. Laureates will be presented to winners in each category at a black-tie banquet in Washington, D.C., on March 7, 2013. The following Laureate honorees were judged to have significantly advanced aerospace/aviation commerce and technology in 2012:
Aeronautics/Propulsion:
Chinese Air Force
Eurocopter X-3 Team
Navy Secretary Raymond Mabus
Speed Agile-Powered Lift System Concept Demonstration Team
Art Thompson, Project Leader, Red Bull Stratos Project
Business/General Aviation:
Walter Fricke, AirBoss, Veterans Airlift Command
Ron Henriksen, Chairman and CEO, LOGIX Communications
Sen. James Inhofe
Commercial Air Transport:
Sen. James Inhofe
Richard Anderson, Chairman and CEO, Delta Air Lines
Alex Cruz, Chief Executive, Vueling Airlines
Mark Dunkerley, Chief Executive, Hawaiian Airlines
Shinichiro Ito, Chief Executive, All Nippon Airways
Rusdi Kirana, President and founder, Lion Air Group
Defense:
Blue Devil ISR team
Foxhound Light Patrol Vehicle team
K-Max VTOL team
Meteor development and test team
Scorpion Helmet-Mounted Integrated Targeting System team
Information Technology/Electronics:
Air Force Maj. Gen. (ret) Itzik Ben-Israel, head of Israel's space agency
Port Authority of NY-NJ, Honeywell, FAA Ground-Based Augmentation System team
Rockwell Collins Head-up Guidance System team
Ray Zanoni, principle engineering manager, Rockwell Collins
Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul (MRO):
Ray Zanoni, principle engineering manager, Rockwell Collins
Boeing/Corpus Christi Army Depot team
Allan Butterfield, Vice President, Maintenance & Engineering, Air Canada
Louis J. Mancini, Senior Vice President, Commercial Aviation Services, Boeing
Millville Modification Center team
Space:
Curiosity Mars rover
Elon Musk, Chief Executive, Space Exploration Technologies
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO, Arianespace
Operationally Responsive Space-1 Satellite Team
Workforce:
Marion Blakey, President and CEO, Aerospace Industries Association, and Susan Lavrakas, Director, Workforce, AIA
Ralph Coppola, Director, Worldwide Education Parametric Technology Corp.
William Possel, Director of Mission Operations & Data Systems, Laboratory of Atmospheric & Space Physics University of Colorado, Boulder
In addition, Aviation Week will bestow the Philip J. Klass Award for Lifetime Achievement to C. Don Bateman, former Chief IEngineer, Flight Safety Systems, Honeywell. Aviation Week will also present the Tomorrow's Leaders Award, honoring young men and women who have chosen career paths in the armed forces. These exceptional individuals will represent the US Naval Academy, US Coast Guard Academy, US Air Force Academy and the US Military Academy.
Produced by Aviation Week and in conjunction with Platinum Sponsor BAE Systems, the Laureate Awards was conceived more than 50 years ago. The formal dinner and awards ceremony is one the industry's premier events, attracting hundreds of industry pioneers and thought leaders from around the world. Complete coverage of the Laureate Awards will be available in Aviation Week & Space Technology and is on AviationWeek.com. /PRNewswire/