Recipients of the Aviation Week
& Space Technology
Distinguished Service Award |
| 2007 |
Jean Pinet,
Académie de l'Air et de
l'Espace |
| 2006 |
No award |
| 2005 |
John R. Hallinan, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration,
Alaskan Region |
| 2004 |
John E.
O’Brien, Air Line Pilots Association,
International |
| 2003 |
Dr. Tony Kern, Forest Service, U.S. Department
of Agriculture |
| 2002 |
Capt.
Akrivos Tsolakis, Hellenic Republic National Aviation Safety Board |
| 2001 |
Capt. Yun-Ling
Lee, China Airlines |
| 2000 |
Capt. Daniel
E. Maurino, International Civil Aviation Organization |
| 1999 |
Capt. Mike
Holtom, British Airways |
| 1998 |
Ronald
M. McGregor, U.S. Air Force Safety Center |
| 1997 |
Don Bateman, AlliedSignal Aerospace |
| 1996 |
Anthony J. Broderick, U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration |
| 1995 |
Capt. James C. Waugh (retired),
Pan American World Airways |
| 1994 |
Robert L. Helmreich, Ph.D., The
University of Texas at Austin;
Dennis A. Nollen, Ph.D., DuPont Advanced Material Systems |
| 1993 |
William W. Melvin, Air Line Pilots
Association, International |
| 1992 |
Ronald Ashford, U.K. Civil Aviation
Authority;
M. Craig Beard, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration |
| 1991 |
Charles R. Higgins, The Boeing
Co. |
| 1990 |
Tirey K. Vickers |
| 1989 |
Capt. Hidemaro Nagano, Japan Air
Lines |
| 1988 |
Capt. L. Homer Mouden |
| 1987 |
John K. Lauber, U.S. National Transportation
Safety Board |
| 1986 |
Harold D. Hoekstra (retired), U.S.
Federal Aviation Administration |
| 1985 |
Capt. David A. Simmon, United Airlines |
| 1984 |
Paul R. Powers, Bell Helicopter
Textron lnc. |
| 1983 |
Fredrick B. McIntosh (retired),
National Business Aircraft Association |
| 1982 |
Walter S. Luffsey, U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration |
| 1981 |
Capt. B. Victor Hewes, Delta Air
Lines |
| 1980 |
Richard Aarons, Business and
Commercial Aviation |
| 1979 |
Charles Billings, M.D., U.S. National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center |
| 1978 |
W.P. Rollings, Bell Helicopter
Textron |
| 1977 |
Dr. T. Theodore Fujita, University
of Chicago |
| 1976 |
Joseph Tymczyszyn, U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration |
| 1975 |
George Wansbeek, KLM Royal Dutch
Airlines |
| 1974 |
General Aviation Manufacturers
Association and its Safe Pilot Program |
| 1973 |
Ralph Nelson, Aircraft Owners and
Pilots Association |
| 1972 |
Joseph M. Chase; Capt. Emil E.
Glanz, Capt. Thomas Oakes and Capt. Charles R. Tennstedt, Eastern
Air Lines |
| 1971 |
A. W. (Tony) LeVier; Charles O.
Miller, Director, Bureau of Aviation Safety, U.S. National Transportation
Safety Board |
| 1970 |
Air Transport Association; National
Business Aircraft Association;
Dr. Matthew Radnofsky, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Manned Space Center |
| 1969 |
Dr. Charles L. Elworth and Dr.
Conrad L. Kraft, The Boeing Co. |
| 1968 |
Walter B. Horne, U.S. National
Aeronautics and Space Administration; Willard G. Plentl, Virginia
State Division of Aeronautics |
| 1967 |
James Campbell and U.S. Federal
Aviation Agency; Herbert Fisher, Port of New York Authority; Jerome
Lederer, Flight Safety Foundation; Dr. Clifford Seitz, Grumman Aircraft;
technical staff of Trans World Airlines |
| 1966 |
William A. Patterson, United Airlines;
Bureau of Safety, U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board; Capt. J. D. Smith,
United Airlines; Technical Staff of International Civil Aviation
Organization |
| 1965 |
John Gibbs (posthumously), British
European Airways; Ray D. Kelly, United Airlines; Transatlantic Air
Traffic Controllers (U.S., British, Canadian); Frank White, Air
Transport Association of America |
| 1964 |
Capt. John B. Clark, American Airlines,
and Paul A. Soderlind, Northwest Airlines; Jack Eggspuehler, Ohio
State University and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association Air
Safety Foundation; U.S. Army Helicopter Primary School; P.B. Walker,
U.K. Royal Aircraft Establishment |
| 1963 |
Capt. Carl M. Christenson, United
Airlines; personnel manning ocean station vessels; John J. Swearingen,
U.S. Federal Aviation Agency Civil Aeromedical Research Institute |
| 1962 |
Maj. Gen. John D. Caldara, U.S.
Air Force; Donald W. Douglas Sr.; Dr. John C. Lane; Capt. Sam P.
Saint, American Airlines |
| 1961 |
Air Line Pilots Association; British
European Airways; Dr. A. C. Bryan, Royal Canadian Air Force; Newton
A. Lieurance, U.S. Weather Bureau |
| 1960 |
Bo Lundberg, Aeronautical Institute
of Sweden; Richard Rhoed, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration |
| 1959 |
J.B. Bartow; Henry Harrison, United
Airlines; Dr. Walter Tye, U.K. Air Registration Board |
| 1958 |
A. Howard Hasbrook; Edwin A. Link;
Otto E. Kirchner; University of Southern California; U.S. Coast
Guard |
| 1957 |
Gen. E. P. Curtis, U.S. Air Force;
George H. Tryon III |
| 1956 |
Melvin N. Gough; Arthur E. Jenks;
William Littlewood; Dr. Edward P. Warner |
| 1955 |
Dr. Barry King, U.K. Civil Aviation
Authority, Medical Division; Stanislaw Krzyczkowski, International
Air Transport Association; Francis Moseley |
| 1954 |
Lt. Col. J. P. Stapp, U.S. Army;
Technical Development and Evaluation Center, U.K. Civil Aviation
Authority and Harvey Hansberry; United Airlines |
| 1953 |
M.G. Beard and Committee S-7 of
the Society of Automotive Engineers; Dr. Ross A. McFarland; National
Advisory Committee for Aeronautics and I. Irving Pinkel |
| 1952 |
Capt. P.Q. Cooquyt; Directorate
of Flight Safety Research, U.S. Air Force; John E. Lindberg Jr.,
Pan American World Airways; Republic Aviation Corp. and William
I. Stieglitz; Sperry Gyroscope Co. |
| 1951 |
E. S. Calvert, U.K. Royal Aircraft
Establishment.; Capt. E. A. Cuttrell, American Airlines; Capt. John
Gill, Eastern Air Lines; Dr. Ross Gunn |
| 1950 |
Capt. Robert Baker and crew, American
Airlines; Capt. Ian R. Harvey and crew, British Overseas Airways
Corp.; Pennsylvania Aeronautics Commission |
| 1949 |
American Airlines and United Airlines;
Leonard M. Greene; Hugh De Haven |
