{"id":10067,"date":"2018-02-07T00:59:06","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=10067"},"modified":"2018-02-07T00:59:06","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:59:06","slug":"nine-aviation-and-space-achievements-to-compete-for-2017-collier-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/national-news\/nine-aviation-and-space-achievements-to-compete-for-2017-collier-trophy\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Nine Aviation and Space Achievements to Compete for 2017 Collier Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10068\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collier-Trophy-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"Collier Trophy\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collier-Trophy-234x300.jpg 234w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collier-Trophy.jpg 468w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/>The National Aeronautic Association announced today that nine aviation and space achievements will compete for the 2017 Robert J. Collier Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>For 105 years, the Collier Trophy has been the benchmark of aerospace achievement. Awarded annually \u201c\u201c\u2026 for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America,\u201d it has been bestowed upon some of the most important projects, programs, individuals, and accomplishments in history.<\/p>\n<p>Past winners include the crews of Apollo 11 and Apollo 8, the Mercury 7, Scott Crossfield, Elmer Sperry, Howard Hughes, and Orville Wright. Projects and programs which have been the recipient of the Collier include the B-52, the Boeing 747, the Cessna Citation, the F-22, and the International Space Station.<\/p>\n<p>The five most recent recipients of the Collier Trophy are the Blue Origin New Shepard Team; the NASA\/JPL Dawn Mission Team; the Gulfstream G650; the Northrop Grumman, US Navy, and X-47B Industry Team; and the NASA\/JPL Mars Curiosity Project Team.<\/p>\n<p>The 2017 Nominees are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boeing 737 MAX<\/li>\n<li>Cirrus Aircraft Vision SF50<\/li>\n<li>Edwards Air Force Base F-35 Integrated Test Force<\/li>\n<li>NASA\/JPL Cassini Project Team<\/li>\n<li>Perlan Project<\/li>\n<li>TSA, ALPA, and A4A Known Crewmember\u00ae and TSA Pre\u2713\u00ae Programs<\/li>\n<li>U.S. Marine Corps, Office of Naval Research, and Aurora Flight Sciences AACUS Autonomous Helicopter System<\/li>\n<li>Vanilla Aircraft VA001<\/li>\n<li>Zee Aero Division of Kitty Hawk Corporation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cFor more than a century, the Collier Trophy has recognized the \u2018greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America,\u2019 Greg Principato, President and CEO of NAA stated. \u201cThis year\u2019s outstanding group of nominees represent the great depth and breadth of our aviation industry. Each is changing our world for the better. The Collier Selection Committee will have its work cut out for it this year and we at NAA couldn\u2019t be more excited.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Collier Trophy Selection Committee will meet on March 22, 2018 in Arlington, Virginia, and the recipient will be announced publicly the following day.<\/p>\n<p>The formal presentation of the Collier Trophy will take place on June 14, 2018 at a location to be determined. More information can be found at www.naa.aero.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Aeronautic Association announced today that nine aviation and space achievements will compete for the 2017 Robert J. Collier Trophy. For 105 years, the Collier Trophy has been the benchmark of aerospace achievement. Awarded annually \u201c\u201c\u2026 for the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America,\u201d it has been bestowed upon some of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":10068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Collier-Trophy.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10069,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10067\/revisions\/10069"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}