ADS-B Recipient Of The 2007 Robert J. Collier Trophy

Wow! Who knew ADS-B was such a great achievement as Global Hawk,
Joint Strike Fighter, Gulfstream G550, and SpaceShipOne?

http://www.naa.aero/html/awards/index.cfm?cmsid=62
NAA ANNOUNCES ADS-B PROGRAM
AS THE WINNER OF THE 2007 ROBERT J. COLLIER TROPHY

Arlington, Virginia, March 6, 2008 – The National Aeronautic
Association (NAA) announced today at their Annual Spring Awards
Luncheon that the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast
(ADS-B) Team of public and private sector groups has been selected
as the recipient of the 2007 Robert J. Collier Trophy. The Collier
Trophy will be presented at a formal dinner on Thursday, June 12,
at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia.

Government and industry leaders who have collaborated for nearly a
decade will be honored "for conceptualizing, developing, and the
initial implementation of Automatic Dependent
Surveillance-Broadcast, the next generation performance-based
air-ground, ground-air, and air-air surveillance system."

“ADS-B is a ground-breaking effort for next-generation airborne
surveillance and cockpit avionics,” noted NAA Chairman and Collier
Selection Committee Chairman Walter Boyne. “Its implementation
will have a broad impact on the safety, capacity and efficiency of
the national airspace system.”

ADS-B was the vision of many prestigious aviation organizations
and individuals who both recognized its potential to dramatically
improve the current aviation system and who also worked tirelessly
for its adoption as the first phase of building the
Next-Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). Among them
are the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the Air Line
Pilots Association, the Cargo Airline Association, Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, the Federal Aviation Administration, ITT
Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, NASA, MITRE Corporation,
UPS, and many others. For more information about ADS-B please go
to www.adsb.gov. ...

This marginalizes the Coolier trophy just as Al Gore getting a "peace
prize" or whatever from the Nobel group for his flawed global warming
hype.

AOPA's comments on ADS-B Out are not consistent with this article.

Ron Lee

On Mar 11, 9:35 am, Larry Dighera wrote:
Wow! Who knew ADS-B was such a great achievement as Global Hawk,
Joint Strike Fighter, Gulfstream G550, and SpaceShipOne?

http://www.naa.aero/html/awards/index.cfm?cmsid=62
NAA ANNOUNCES ADS-B PROGRAM
AS THE WINNER OF THE 2007 ROBERT J. COLLIER TROPHY

Arlington, Virginia, March 6, 2008 - The National Aeronautic
Association (NAA) announced today at their Annual Spring Awards
Luncheon that the Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast
(ADS-B) Team of public and private sector groups has been selected
as the recipient of the 2007 Robert J. Collier Trophy. The Collier
Trophy will be presented at a formal dinner on Thursday, June 12,
at the Crystal Gateway Marriott in Arlington, Virginia.

Government and industry leaders who have collaborated for nearly a
decade will be honored "for conceptualizing, developing, and the
initial implementation of Automatic Dependent
Surveillance-Broadcast, the next generation performance-based
air-ground, ground-air, and air-air surveillance system."

"ADS-B is a ground-breaking effort for next-generation airborne
surveillance and cockpit avionics," noted NAA Chairman and Collier
Selection Committee Chairman Walter Boyne. "Its implementation
will have a broad impact on the safety, capacity and efficiency of
the national airspace system."

ADS-B was the vision of many prestigious aviation organizations
and individuals who both recognized its potential to dramatically
improve the current aviation system and who also worked tirelessly
for its adoption as the first phase of building the
Next-Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). Among them
are the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, the Air Line
Pilots Association, the Cargo Airline Association, Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University, the Federal Aviation Administration, ITT
Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, NASA, MITRE Corporation,
UPS, and many others. For more information about ADS-B please go
towww.adsb.gov. ...

It's clearly impossible that a group of eminent experts such as these
should make a mistake and grant an award to a concept.

Marvelous.


Dan

As a past winner of said trophy* (really, at least sort of) I'm OK
with that.

It is an innovation. Why not give it to a team that tried to do
something really new, as opposed to yet another derivative design? I
won't say that this one is one for the ages, but if you look through
all the past winners, (http://www.aerofiles.com/collier-trophy.html)
you'll see that there are others that now don't seem any more
significant.

ADS-B may yet turn into a total fiasco and an embarrassment to all
concerned, so waiting a bit may have been wiser. On the other hand,
what in aviation does not have the potential to turn into a total
fiasco? Innovation and catastrophe pretty much go together.


*1995, member of 777 design team

On Mar 11, 12:53*pm, xxx wrote:
As a past winner of said trophy* (really, at least sort of) I'm OK
with that.

It is an innovation. Why not give it to a team that tried to do
something really new, as opposed to yet another derivative design? I
won't say that this one is one for the ages, but if you look through
all the past winners, (http://www.aerofiles.com/collier-trophy.html)
you'll see that there are others that now don't seem any more
significant.

ADS-B may yet turn into a total fiasco and an embarrassment to all
concerned, so waiting a bit may have been wiser. On the other hand,
what in aviation does not have the potential to turn into a total
fiasco? Innovation and catastrophe pretty much go together.

*1995, member of 777 design team

Hey, I'm a co-winner along with you...
Dean W.
Boeing 777 AIMS Display System Engineer
1987 to 1995

"We few, we happy few..." I suppose there are several hundred, maybe
even four digits, who can claim a share.

Well cool. Didn't know you then, pleased to meet you now.



On Mar 11, 3:51 pm, wrote:

*1995, member of 777 design team

Hey, I'm a co-winner along with you...
Dean W.
Boeing 777 AIMS Display System Engineer
1987 to 1995

In article ,
Larry Dighera wrote:

Wow! Who knew ADS-B was such a great achievement as Global Hawk,
Joint Strike Fighter, Gulfstream G550, and SpaceShipOne?

http://www.naa.aero/html/awards/index.cfm?cmsid=62
NAA ANNOUNCES ADS-B PROGRAM
AS THE WINNER OF THE 2007 ROBERT J. COLLIER TROPHY
[snip]

wow - the trophy goes to a program that's more than a decade old?

what's next, giving the award to the Apollo program?

--
Bob Noel
(goodness, please trim replies!!!)

xxx wrote:
"We few, we happy few..." I suppose there are several hundred, maybe
even four digits, who can claim a share.

Well cool. Didn't know you then, pleased to meet you now.

Not a winner, but I've helped move the actual trophy (as well
as the Mackay which is heavier and more precious). One thing
I did notice last year with replicas given the F-22 winners,
they had the statue misaligned with the engraved plate on the
base (at least using the original one as a reference).