Aviation Week award for Capt. Gopinath

Washington: Aviation Week has named Dr. Edward C. Stone, David Morrisroe Professor of Physics and Vice Provost for Special Projects, California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the winner of the Philip J. Klass Award for Lifetime Achievement at the 50th annual Laureate Awards. Other winners of the Laureate Awards, which recognize outstanding achievements in aviation, aerospace and defense, included:
* Aeronautics/Propulsion: Mark Lewis, Chief Scientist, U.S. Air Force
* Business/General Aviation: Robert Agostino, Director of Flight Operations, Bombardier Business Aircraft
* Commercial Air Transport: Capt. G.R. Gopinath, (Ret.), Managing Director, Air Deccan
* IT/Electronics: Lt. Gen. Walter E. Buchanan III, (Ret.), U.S. Air Force
* Military: Rear Admiral Guiseppe De Giorgi, Commander, Italian Maritime Forces
* Operations: 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: 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.
21/03/07 PR Newswire (press release), US

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Categories: Air Deccan Mar 2007, Foreign Mar 2007