The Mackay Trophy is awarded yearly by the United States Air Force for the "most meritorious flight of the year" by an Air Force person, persons, or organization...
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Clarence Mackay Trophy is awarded for the “most meritorious flight of the year” by an Air Force person, persons, or organization. The Trophy is administered...
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Mackay may refer to: Clan Mackay, the Scottish clan from which the surname "MacKay" derives Mackay may also refer to: Mackay Region, a local government...
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Chuck Yeager (category Mackay Trophy winners)
altitude of 45,000 ft (13,700 m), for which he won both the Collier and Mackay trophies in 1948. He then went on to break several other speed and altitude...
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Jimmy Doolittle (category Mackay Trophy winners)
average speed of 232 MPH. For that feat, Doolittle was awarded the Mackay Trophy in 1926. In April 1926, Doolittle was given a leave of absence to go...
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Iven Carl Kincheloe Jr. (category Mackay Trophy winners)
the 50-mile-boundary used by the U.S. Air Force.) He was awarded the Mackay Trophy for 1956 for the flight. The X-2 program was halted three weeks later...
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commander of the 8th Special Operations Squadron, was later awarded the Mackay Trophy for his actions in leading the air drop on the Point Salines Airport...
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endurance and distance. He was awarded the best achievement in flight Mackay Trophy twice. Smith was born October 8, 1892, in Santa Barbara, California...
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or were forced down. All airmen survived. They were all awarded the Mackay Trophy aviation award for 1924. In the early 1920s several countries were vying...
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aerospace trophies the B-58 won were the Bleriot Trophy, the Thompson Trophy, the Mackay Trophy, the Bendix Trophy, and the Harmon Trophy. Singer John...
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