2021 Shortlisted Finalists & Winners
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 Best Young Journalist sponsored by NAMMOList Item 1Khalem Chapman Lee Hudson - Winner Oriana Pawlyk Andrew Reilly Nathan Strout Yasmin Tadjdeh 
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 Best Propulsion submission sponsored by Pratt & WhitneyList Item 2Dave Allport - Battle for the Buff - Combat Aircraft Journal Gareth Jennings - Reaction Engines and Rolls-Royce partner on high-speed aircraft propulsion - Janes Defence Weekly Murdo Morrison - Is personal jet pack set for thrust into mass market? - FlightGlobal.com Keith Mwanalushi - Power up for recovery - AviTrader MRO Jon Ostrower - Winner - Coronavirus shreds the engine maker business model - The Air Current Steve Trimble and Guy Norris - Pratt & Whitney Makes Hypersonic Revival As Pentagon Pushes Reuse - Aviation Week Intelligence Network 
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 Best Un-manned Systems submissionList Item 3Andrew Drwiega – Bright Horizons For Maritime Rotary UAVs - Armada Tim Martin - MALE UAS: The Trump effect - Air Warfare Stephen Miller - UAVS Evolve To Meet The Changing Mission - Armada Garrett Reim - Record number of UAV shoot downs prompt new USAF tactics and countermeasure pod - FlightGlobal Richard Scott - Prize catch: Gremlins testing puts air-recoverable UAVs within reach - Janes International Defence Review Kelvin Wong - Winner - Winning streak: China hits stride in armed MALE UAV exports - Janes International Defence Review 
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 Best Image sponsored by Dassault AviationList Item 4Jim Haseltine - Winner - Combat Aircraft Journal cover Kimberly Henneman - Northern Lights Lloyd Horgan - Vertical Valor cover Jamie Hunter - Gripen E Vincenzo Pace - British Airways 747 at sunset Mark Wagner - PC-24 Splash 
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 Best Safety, Training & Simulation submission sponsored by CAETom Batchelor - Battling Birdstrikes – Airliner World Jens Flottau, Sean Broderick, Guy Norris - Widebody Woes – Aviation Week & Space Technology Robert Moorman - Confronting The Blaze - CAT magazine Oriana Pawlyk - Winner - The Air Force Wants to Overhaul Pilot Training. But It Has to Win Over the Skeptics First - Military.com Patrick Veillette - Slip Sliding on Snow - Business & Commercial Aviation James Wynbrandt - Treating your ‘Get-There-It is - Business Jet Traveller 
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 Best Passenger & Crew Wellbeing submission sponsored by CTT SystemsLindsay Bjerregaard - Medical Mods - Inside MRO Thierry Dubois - New Cabin Technologies May Help Restore Passenger Confidence – AviationWeek.com Emma Kelly - Winner - Blank Canvas or a Simple Retouch? - Inflight Kathryn Creedy - Airlines Begin Examining Cabin Future - Aerospace Tech Review Gregg Polek - Cabin germ-shield concepts raise feasibility issues - AIN Pilar Wolfsteller - Pilots face career anxiety after coronavirus disruption - FlightGlobal 
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 Best Digital SubmissionJohn Walton - APEX/Inmarsat FlightPlan online seminars Ian D. Whelan - Here's What It Will Take to Make Urban Air Mobility a Reality – FutureFlight - AIN The Defense & Aerospace Report - Winner Theo Leggett and Tom Burridge –Boeing played Russian roulette with people's lives - BBC Simple Flying TATV 
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 Best Aerospace & Defence Business submission sponsored by L3HarrisBill Carey – Air Navigation Service Providers Angst - Aviation Week & Space Technology Adam Hadhazy - Flight shaming’s surprising power - Aerospace America Emma Kelly - Reviving the Revenue - LARA Aaron Mehta and Valerie Insinna - Winners - Chaos, cash and COVID-19: How the defense industry survived — and thrived — during the pandemic - Defense News Andrew McIntosh - Boeing Plays Defense - Puget Sound Business Journal Jon Ostrower - Emirates' Tim Clark says Boeing 'not getting it' on 737 Max - The Air Current 
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 Best Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul submissionLindsay Bjerregaard, James Pozzi, & Lee Ann Shay - Winners - The Aftermarket’s Recovery - Inside MRO Kathryn Creedy - Tectonic Shift in Fleet Planning and Maintenance - Aviation Maintenance Charlotte Daniels - COVID 19 – Driving Digital & Remote Maintenance - Aerospace Tech Review Christopher Freeze - Maintenance Training: A gateway to a career - AOPA Pilot” magazine Keith Mwanalushi - A case for optimism and recovery - AviTrader MRO Thom Patterson - European MROs Struggle Against the Pandemic - Aviation Maintenance Magazine 
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 Best Rotorcraft submissionMark Broadbent - Winner – HELIMED Rapid rotary response - AIR International Andrew Drwiega – ARH – Stick or Twist - Asian Military Review Elan Head - Surprise Ending - Vertical Valor Jen Judson - Flooding the zone: Future aviation capability tightens kill chain at Project Convergence - Defense News Tim Martin - Heavy-lift helicopters: Heavyweight defence - Air Warfare Garrett Reim - AH-64E teams with two UAVs to identify attack target – FlightGlobal 
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 Best Business Aviation submission sponsored by GulfstreamDavid Esler - Challenging Airports - Business & Commercial Aviation Curt Epstein - Hangar fire foam systems: a solution looking for a problem? - AIN Volker Thomalla - Winner - Business Aviation to the rescue - BART International Matt Thurber - Dassault Adds More Smarts to Falcon Autothrottle - AIN Alasdair Whyte - How to build an empire – Corporate Jet Investor James Wynbrandt - Flying in the Age of COVID-19 - Business Jet Traveller 
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 Best Military Aviation submission sponsored by Lockheed MartinMegan Eckstein - Mission Capable - USNI News Craig Hoyle - Where Eagles dare - Flight International Valerie Insinna - Winner - The US Air Force has built and flown a mysterious full-scale prototype of its future fighter jet - Defense News Gareth Jennings - The Dark Art: Airborne EA becomes ‘the new black’ for mission success - Janes International Defence Review Paul Kennard - Bell and Sikorsky Share the Spoils So FARA, So Good? - Heliops Frontline Magazine Steve Trimble - Digital Reality - Aviation Week & Space Technology 
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 Best Commercial Aviation submissionJens Flottau & Guy Norris - In Transit - Aviation Week & Space Technology Jonathan Hemmerdinger - 2015 FAA reports highlighted early concerns about self-certification programme - FlightGlobal Holly Hegeman - American Airlines’ New Revenue Czar Vasu Raja - PlaneBusiness Banter Emma Kelly – Waste not want not - Inflight Andrew McIntosh – The Rise and Fall Of TTF Aerospace - Puget Sound Business Journal Tim Robinson - Winner - Airbus spearheads hydrogen moonshot - AEROSPACE 
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 Best Breaking News submissionBill Carey - Pilot’s Spatial Disorientation Caused Kobe Bryant Helo Crash, NTSB Says - Aviation Week Intelligence Network Chen Chuanren - Investigators Cite Thrust Discrepancy Behind SJ182 Crash - Aviation Week Intelligence Network Mark Huber - Helo Crash Kills Basketball Legend Kobe Bryant, Eight Others - AIN Alerts and HAI Convention News Gareth Jennings - UK bars South Korea from selling FA-50 to Argentina - Janes Defence Weekly Andrew McIntosh - Winner - COMAC Checks Out Boeing's Backyard - Puget Sound Business Journal Jon Ostrower - Boeing yanks eight 787s from service over structural issue - The Air Current 
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 Judges CommendationJon Ostrower - Boeing's MCAS on the 737 Max may not have been needed at all - The Air Current 
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 The Bill Gunston Technology Writer of the Year AwardJon Harper Emma Kelly Jon Lake Garrett Reim Matt Thurber - Winner Graham Warwick 
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 The Aerospace Reporter of the Year - sponsored by Dassault AviationPeggy Hollinger Valerie Insinna Andrew McIntosh Adrian Schofield Karen Walker Graham Warwick 
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 Lifetime Achievement Award sponsored by Lockheed MartinRoy Braybrook - Winner Fred George - Winner 
