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This award recognizes notable achievement in the field of aviation safety
— civil or military — in method, design, invention, study
or other improvement. The award’s recipient is selected for a “significant
individual or group effort contributing to improving aviation safety,
with emphasis on original contributions,” and a “significant
individual or group effort performed above and beyond normal responsibilities.”
The award was established in 1956 by the late Clifford E. Barbour and
his son, Clifford E. Barbour Jr., in memory of the elder Barbour’s
wife, a passenger on a DC-3 that struck a mountain near Morgantown,
West Virginia, U.S., on April 14, 1945. All 20 people in the airplane
were killed. The Barbour family used the insurance settlement to institute
the award, which includes $500 and a handsome, wood-framed, hand-lettered
citation.
The nominating deadline is May 9, 2008; the award
is presented at the FSF International Air
Safety Seminar (IASS).
Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award Nomination
Form [MSWord 28K]
Recipients of
The Laura Taber Barbour Air Safety Award |
| 2007 |
John R. Ackland, Boeing Commercial Airplanes |
| 2006 |
Don Bateman, Honeywell |
| 2005 |
Capt. Ralph S. Johnson |
| 2004 |
Kay Yong, Ph.D., Aviation Safety Council, Taiwan,
China |
| 2003 |
Capt. Robert L. Sumwalt, US Airways and Air Line
Pilots Association, International |
| 2002 |
Capt. Edmond
L. Soliday (retired), United Airlines |
| 2001 |
Joseph Andrew
Wright Sr., ARFF Technical Services |
| 2000 |
Capt. Richard
Slatter, C Eng, FRAeS, Consultant, International Civil Aviation Organization |
| 1999 |
Meritt M. Birky,
Ph.D., U.S. National Transportation Safety Board |
| 1998 |
Vice Admiral
Brent M. Bennitt, U.S. Navy (retired) |
| 1997 |
William G. Laynor (retired),
U.S. National Transportation Safety Board |
| 1996 |
Capt. Robert G. Buley, Northwest
Airlines |
| 1995 |
C.O. Miller, System Safety |
| 1994 |
Capt. H. Ray Lahr (retired), United
Airlines |
| 1993 |
Hidemaro Nagano, Japan Air Lines;
John H. Enders, Flight Safety Foundation (honorary) |
| 1992 |
Dr. William Reynard, U.S. National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center |
| 1991 |
Robert E. Doll, United Airlines |
| 1990 |
Capt. John X. Stefanki (retired),
United Airlines |
| 1989 |
Capt. Heino Caesar, Lufthansa German
Airlines |
| 1988 |
Capt. J. L. DeCelles (retired), Trans
World Airlines |
| 1987 |
Hortencio G. Morsch, Varig Brazilian
Airlines |
| 1986 |
Warren A. Stauffer (retired), Lockheed
Corp. |
| 1985 |
Gary S. Livack, General Aviation
Manufacturers Association |
| 1984 |
Walter B. Horne (retired), U.S. National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, Langley Research Center |
| 1983 |
Brian Hamliton Heeps, Repco Corp.,
Australia |
| 1982 |
John T. Richards, Aviation Safety
Bureau, Transport Canada |
| 1981 |
Charles E. Billings, U.S. National
Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center |
| 1980 |
Delfina R. Mott, Association of Flight
Attendants |
| 1979 |
Capt. Paul A. Soderlind, Northwest
Airlines |
| 1978 |
Capt. B. Victor Hewes, Air Line Pilots
Association, International |
| 1977 |
James E. Dougherty, U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration |
| 1976 |
George Wansbeek, KLM Royal Dutch
Airlines |
| 1975 |
Fred Earnest Weick (retired), Piper
Aircraft Corp. |
| 1974 |
Dr. Ross McFarland, Guggenheim Center,
Harvard University |
| 1973 |
Capt. Homer Mouden, Braniff Airlines
and Air Line Pilots Association, International |
| 1972 |
Dr. John A. Swearingen, U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration Civil Aeromedical Research Institute |
| 1971 |
Malcolm Kuhring, National Research
Council, Canada |
| 1970 |
Joseph J. O'Connell Jr. and staff,
Bureau of Aviation Safety, U.S. National Transportation Safety Board |
| 1969 |
Theodore G. Linnert, Air Line Pilots
Association, International |
| 1968 |
Walter Tye, U.K. Air Registration
Board |
| 1967 |
W.O. Breuhaus and William F. Milliken
Jr., Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory; W.M. Kauffman, National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics, Ames Research Center |
| 1966 |
Francis McCourt, U.S. Army Aviation
Materiel Laboratories |
| 1965 |
Arthur E. Jenks, U.S. Federal Aviation
Agency; Gloria W. Heath, Flight Safety Foundation (honorary) |
| 1964 |
Philip Donely, U.S. National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, Langley Research Center; Jerome Lederer,
Flight Safety Foundation (honorary) |
| 1963 |
David D. Thomas, U.S. Federal Aviation
Agency |
| 1962 |
Otto E. Kirchner Sr., The Boeing
Co. |
| 1961 |
E.S. Calvert and J.W. Sparke, U.K.
Royal Aircraft Establishment |
| 1960 |
Melvin N. Gough, U.S. National Aeronautics
and Space Administration, Langley Research Center |
| 1959 |
Allen L. Morse, U.S. Federal Aviation
Agency |
| 1958 |
James Martin, OBE, United Kingdom |
| 1957 |
Harry F. Guggenheim |
| 1956 |
Dugald O. Black, Gerard J. Pesman,
I. Irving Pinkel and G. Merritt Preston, National Advisory Committee
for Aeronautics, Lewis Flight Propulsion Center |
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