{"id":1270,"date":"2013-06-30T17:20:22","date_gmt":"2013-06-30T17:20:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-06-30T17:20:22","modified_gmt":"2013-06-30T17:20:22","slug":"naa-presents-henderson-trophy-colonel-joseph-kittinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/news\/naa-presents-henderson-trophy-colonel-joseph-kittinger\/%20","title":{"rendered":"NAA Presents Henderson Trophy to Colonel Joseph Kittinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.5;\">The National Aeronautic Association presented the 2013 Cliff Henderson Trophy to <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/Kittinger_henryo.jpg\" width=\"319\" height=\"229\" align=\"right\" alt=\"\" \/>Colonel Joseph Kittinger, USAF (Ret.) at a recent luncheon in Crystal City, Virginia. &nbsp;On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger became an aviation pioneer with the &ldquo;highest step in the world&rdquo; when he made history as he ascended to 102,800 feet in a high-altitude balloon and jumped to Earth.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<div>Kittinger, who is enshrined in the National Aviation Hall of Fame, has also set several ballooning and parachuting records, was a noted test pilot and was held as a prisoner of war by North Viet Nam for nearly a year. Sherry Butcher, President of the United States Parachute Association provided introductory remarks.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The Henderson Trophy is awarded to &ldquo;&hellip; a living individual, group of individuals, or an organization whose vision, leadership or skill made a significant and lasting contribution to the promotion and advancement, of aviation and aerospace in the U.S.&quot; (Henry Ogrodzinski, NASAO President, right, greets Col. Kittinger and his wife, Sherry.)&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Tony Velocci, retired editor-in-chief of Aviation Week and Space Technology was the guest speaker. &nbsp;<\/div>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div class=\"field_attachment\">\n<div><b>Attachment:<\/b><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"\/\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Aeronautic Association presented the 2013 Cliff Henderson Trophy to Colonel Joseph Kittinger, USAF (Ret.) at a recent luncheon in Crystal City, Virginia. &nbsp;On August 16, 1960, Joe Kittinger became an aviation pioneer with the &ldquo;highest step in the world&rdquo; when he made history as he ascended to 102,800 feet in a high-altitude balloon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-virginia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/\\wp-content\\uploads\/Kittinger_henryo.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","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=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}