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Laureates Awards
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium
1301 Constitution Ave., NW
Washington, D.C.

6:30 p.m.  Reception with dinner to follow
Black Tie
past recipients
 

* Winners are listed by calendar year in which the award was presented. They are judged on work done in the previous calendar year.

AERONAUTICS/PROPULSION

1989 Thomas V. Jones
Ben Rich
1990 Jean-Luc Lagadere
Jean-Luis Gergorin
Philippe Camus
1991 Lt. Col. Felix Sanchez
1992 Bernard Ziegler
Pierre Baud
Jacques Troyes
1993 Daniel M. Tellep
1994 Laurent Beaudoin
1995 Charles H. Kaman
1996 Ray Morgan
Bob Curtin
1997 Phil Condit
Alan Mulally
Ronald Ostrowski
Dale Hougardy
1998 Jean Pierson
1999 Serge Dassault
2000 Moshe Keret
2001 Mauricio Botelho
Boris Katorgin
Vladimir Chvanov
Lawrence Tanner
Robert Ford
John Karas
2002 Robert F. Faulkner
Joaquin H. Castro
Curtis W. Berger
Robert Mercier
Fabrice Bregier
Alan Garwood
Mario di Donato
2003 Kent Kresa, President/Chief Executive Officer, Northrop Grumman Corp.
Jean-Francois Bigay, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Eurocopter
2004 Ken Hyde, Scott Crossfield, Kevin Kochersberger and Terry Queijo and other members of the Wright Experience
Noel Forgeard, Chief Executive, the Men and Women of Airbus
2005 Vincent Rausch, Program Manager and Randall Voland, Engine Developer, at NASA's Langley Research Center,
Anthony Castrogiovanni, President, ATK GASL and the X-43 Hyper-X scramjet.
2006 Robert Lafontan, Senior VP for Engineering; Fernando Alonso, VP for Flight Test; Jaques Rosay, Chief Test Pilot and the entire A380 engineering and flight test team, Airbus
2007 Mark Lewis, Chief Scientist, U.S. Air Force

IT/ELECTRONICS

1989 John H. Staehlin
1990 Cdr. George W. Hoover
1991 Thomas L. Phillips
1992 Gerard J. McNiff
Paul J. Coco
Col. Harry H. Heimple
1993 Norman R. Augustine
1994 John R. Kreick
1995 Brian O'Keeffe
1996 Olof Lundberg
1997 Donald Bateman
1998 Francis Bernard
1999 Eugene Joseph
2000 Lt. Gen. Thomas Keck
Lawrence Mitchell
Capt. Roger Arrowood
2001 Lawrence Fullerton
2001 Capt. David A. Dunaway, U.S. Navy
Donald A. Thole, Boeing
Thomas A. Kennedy, Raytheon
2003 William Brown, Chief Scientist of the Sensors Directorate of the Air Force Research Laboratory
William R. Boario, AFRL Retired
Jack Walker, Veridia ERIM International Retired
2004 Brad Cornell, Boeing airplane systems engineer; Helene Serrand, Airbus senior navigation engineer; Mike Watson, Thales
operations support manager; Walter Dollman, manager of regulatory and industry affairs for Qantas; and Craig Roberts, Airservices
Australia operations specialist.
2005 Andrew K. Barrows, CEO, Nav3D Corp.; Steve Fulton, CTO, Naverus; Lars G.V. Lindberg, Presidetnt, Avtech; John Marris, President, Marinvent Corp.
2007 Lt. Gen. Walter E. Buchanan III, (Ret.), U.S. Air Force

PHILIP J. KLASS LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT

1995 Albert L. Ueltschi
1996 Richard H. Frost
1997 Capt. E. B. Jeppesen
1998 John W. Young
A. Scott Crossfield
1999 Paul MacCready
2000 Edmund F. Ball
2001 Jean-Luc Lagardere
2002 Leonard Greene
Noel W. Hinners
2003 Fitzhugh Fulton, U.S. Air Force/NASA and Civilian Test Pilot
2004 Keith Ferris, Aviation Artist
Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
2005 Assad Kotaite, President of the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization.
William R. (Bob) Laidlaw, former head of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and Founder of Aerotest.
2006 Patty Wagstaff, Acrobatic Flying Champion
2007 Dr. Edward C. Stone, David Morrisroe Professor of Physics and Vice Provost for Special Projects, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

BUSINESS/GENERAL AVIATION

2005 Ballistic Recovery Systems
2006 John Rosanvallon, Preseident and CEO and Olivier Villa, Senior Vice President, Dassault Falcon Jet Corp.
2007 Robert Agostino, Director of Flight Operations, Bombardier Business Aircraft

SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT

2003 Steven Udvar-Hazy, Jack Dailey, Don Lopez and the men and women of the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum

PERSON OF THE YEAR

2007 Alan R. Mulally, CEO, Ford Motor Company

BREITLING AWARD FOR AVIATION HEROISM

2007 USCG, Lcdr. Walter L. Horne, Lcdr. William R. Timmons, AMT3 Karl A. Schickle, and AST3 Jon E. Houlberg for a harrowing, life-saving HH-60J rescue, conducted March 14, 2006.

"TOMORROW'S LEADER"

2007 U. S. Naval Academy Midshipmen 1/C Douglas Marsh; U.S. Coast Guard Academy 1/C Nathaniel L. Souleret; U.S. Air Force Academy Cadet First Class Christopher A. Taylor; and U.S. Military Academy CDT Jeffrey Michael Rigney.

AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL TOMORROW'S LEADER SCHOLARSHIP

2007 student Cristhian Godoy

COMMERCIAL AIR TRANSPORT

1989 Robert L. Crandall
1990 Lord King
Sir Colin Marshall
1991 Frederick W. Smith
1992 Ronald W. Allen
1993 Herbert D. Kelleher
1994 Alexander P. Pleshakov
Grigory A. Gurtovoy
1995 Herman De Croo
1996 Nikolai Feodorovich Zobov
1997 Gordon Bethune
Christian Blanc
1998 Richard T. Santulli
1999 James Strong
Peter Sutch
2000 Sir Richard Branson
2001 John H. Dasburg and the Men and Women of Northwest Airlines
2002 Donald J. Carty, Robert Baker, and the Men and Women of American Airlines
2003 Cheong Chong Kong, Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Singapore Airlines
Michael O'Leary, Chief Executive Officer, Ryanair
2004 Joe Leonard, Chairman and CEO, Air Tran Airways
2005 David Neeleman, CEO, jetBlue Airways.
2006 Jean-Cyril Spinetta, Chairman and CEO and Leo M. van Wijk, Vice Chairman, Air France/KLM
2007 Capt. G.R. Gopinath, (Ret.), Managing Director, Air Deccan

GOVERNMENT/MILITARY

1989 Lord Carrington
Paul H. Nitze
Marshal Sergei Fedorovich Akhromeyev
1990 Hubert Curien
1991 Ambassador R. James Woolsey
1992 Lt. Gen. Charles A. Horner
1993 Malcolm Rifkind
1994 John B. Alexander
1995 Alexander W. Riedy
1996 Mary Fackler Schiavo
1997 William Perry
1998 Larry D. McClain
Robert G. Myers
1999 VXE-6, Navy Antarctic Development Squadron
2000 Gen. John Jumper
Lt. Gen. Michael Short
2001 John J. Hamre
2002 Gen. Lester Lyles
Col. Wayne Johnson
Carl O. Johnson
2003 Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski, (U.S. Navy, Ret.), Director, Office of Force Transformation
2004 Kimberly Tran, Boeing
Steve Griffin, Boeing
2005 U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard Cody and U.S. Air Force Gen. John Handy, chief of Air Mobility Command and
U.S. Transportation Command.
2006 U.S. Air Force and Georgia Air National Guard's 16th Airborne Command and Control Sqdn.
2007 Rear Admiral Guiseppe De Giorgi, Commander, Italian Maritime Forces

OPERATIONS

1989 Capt. Robert Schornstheimer
First Officer Madeline "Mimi" Tompkins
1990 Capt. Alfred C. Haynes
First Officer William Records
Second Officer Dudley Dvorak
Dennis Fitch
1991 Gen. Hansford T. Johnson
1992 Flying Doctors of Mercy
1993 Capt. Stefan Rasmussen
Co-Pilot Ulf Cedermark
1994 Flight Crews of a Royal Air Force Westland Sea King and Sikorsky S-61N
1995 Richard DeMary
1996 Brig. Gen. Martin Berndt
Lt. Col. Christopher J. Gunther
Capt. Thomas O. Hanford
1997 Lt. Col. Madan K.C.
1998 Flight crews from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater and USAF Reserve 920th Rescue Group
1999 Australian Helimed Bell 412 Crew
HH-60J Jayhawk Crew, U.S. Coast Guard
2000 Lt. Col. Steve Laushine
2001 Lt. Dan Molthen
Lt. (jg) Craig Neubecker
PO Darren Reeves
PO Lorne Green
2002 Hermis Moutardier
Cristina Jones
2003 J. Stephen Fossett
2004 Maj. Gilbert Thibault, First Officer Capt. Andrew Mercer, Flight Engineer, MCpl. Rob Vidito, SAR TSgt. Emilio
Dechantal, MCpl. Dave Cooper and Cpl. Scott Elliston 103 Rescue Squadron Canadian Forces
2005 Indian Air Force Wing Cdr. S.K. Sharma and Flight Lt. A.P. Dhanake
2006 The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Satellite and Information and Service
U.S. Air Force Reserve's 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Sqdn
U.S. Coast Guard Aviators
Greg Withee
Gary Davis, Director Systems Development, NOAA
USAF Reserve Brig. Gen. Charles Ethredge
USCG Capt. Mike Moore
2007 Team of AC-130 Gunship Operations - Lt. Col. Ted Fordyce, Commander, 16th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron, U.S. Air Force; Lt. Col. Robert Monroe, Commander, 4th Expeditionary Special Operations Squadron, U.S. Air Force

SPACE

1989 Rear Adm. Richard H. Truly
1990 Edward Stone
1991 Kurt Heftman
David Wilkins
1992 Shuttle Mission 39 Military Team
Shuttle Mission 40 Spacelab Life Sciences Team
1993 George Smoot
John Mather
1994 Hubble Space Telescope Service Team
1995 Col. Pedro L. Rustan Jr.
Paul Regeon
1996 Alvin Seiff
John Casani
William O'Neil
1997 Bary R. Bertiger
Kenneth M. Peterson
Raymond J. Leopold
1998 Anthony J. Spear
Brian K. Muirhead
Rob Manning
Richard Cook
1999 Daniel Goldin
2000 Goddard Space Flight Center, Hubble Space Telescope Operations Team
2001 Michael Malin
Kenneth Edgett
2002 Thomas Coughlin
Robert Farquhar
Bobby Williams
Joseph Veverka
NEAR Mission Team
2003 Ronald D. Dittemore, NASA Space Shuttle Program Manager
William H. Gerstenmaier, NASA Program Manager, International Space Station
Russell D. Turner, President/Chief Executive Officer, United Space Alliance
Joe Mills, Boeing Program Manager, International Space Station
2004 Col. Yang Liwei, People's Liberation Army Air Force
2005 The NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cornell University and
Aerospace Industry Mars Exploration Rover team
2006 The Cassini/Huygens Spacecraft Team; Dennis Matson, Project Scientist, Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Jean-Pierre Lebreton, Project Scientist and Mission Manager, ESA
2007 Stardust Comet Sample Return Mission Team - Don Brownlee, Stardust Principal Investigator, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington; Tom Duxbury, Stardust Project Manager, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Peter Tsou, Stardust Deputy Project Investigator, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory; Joseph Vellinga, Stardust Program Manager, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Co.

 

 
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