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    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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  • school, Davenant Foundation School, dedicated a trophy for pupils to her memory called 'The Nina Mackay Trophy for service in the community'. In 1998 it was...
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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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    survived. They were awarded the Distinguished Service Medal, and the Mackay Trophy aviation award for 1924. In the early 1920s several countries were vying...
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    Jimmy Doolittle (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    miles per hour (373 km/h). 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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    Eddie Rickenbacker (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    Biscayne, Florida at the age of 92. Junior Military Aviation Badge Mackay Trophy for bringing down sixteen enemy aircraft, 1918 Croix de Guerre with...
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    Lucky Lady II (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    with its annual Mackay Trophy, recognizing the outstanding flight of the year and by the Air Force Association with its Air Age Trophy. Another B-50 named...
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    Henry H. Arnold (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    was untouched by the fiasco. Later that same year he won his second Mackay Trophy, when he led ten Martin B-10B bombers on an 8,290-mile (13,340 km) flight...
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    David Craig Mackay (14 November 1934 – 2 March 2015) was a Scottish football player and manager. Mackay was best known for a highly successful playing...
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    John A. Macready (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    test pilot and aviator. He is the only three-time recipient of the Mackay Trophy, and they were awarded in three consecutive years: once for altitude...
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  • landing system for airplanes. For his invention he was awarded the Mackay Trophy in 1938. He died in a crash in Formosa in 1946. Gallico, Paul (1944-03-25)...
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    Albert Francis Hegenberger (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    was an aeronautical engineer of note, earning both the Mackay Trophy (1927) and Collier Trophy (1934) for achievement. Hegenberger also invented the non-directional...
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    John A. Samford (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    John Alexander Samford (August 29, 1905 – December 1, 1968) was a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force who served as Director of the National...
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    Combat Studies Institute, January 2009. Retrieved 2 October 2010. "Mackay Trophy". National Aeronautic Association (naa.aero). Retrieved 8 September...
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    Robert Olds (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    of the Southern Cross (Brazil) Olds received the 1938 Harmon Trophy, the 1939 Mackay Trophy on behalf of the 2nd Bomb Group's flight to Argentina, and the...
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    commercial air. A 7th SOS Combat Talon II aircrew, Whiskey 05, earned the Mackay Trophy for an embassy evacuation mission in the Republic of the Congo in June...
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    Ira C. Eaker (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    200 km) trip around South America and, with the others, was awarded the Mackay Trophy. He then became executive officer in the Office of the Assistant Secretary...
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    This flight was awarded the 1971 Mackay Trophy for the "most meritorious flight of the year" and the 1972 Harmon Trophy for "most outstanding international...
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    Orvil A. Anderson (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    pioneer Army balloonist. In 1935 he and Albert William Stevens won the Mackay Trophy when they set a record of 72,395 feet in their balloon Explorer II....
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    27th Special Operations Wing (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    redesignated the 27th Fighter-Escort Wing on 1 February. The wing won the Mackay Trophy for successful deployment of 90 F-84s from Bergstrom to Fürstenfeldbruck...
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    Caleb V. Haynes (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    of the 1939 Chillán earthquake. Haynes and his ten-man crew won the Mackay Trophy for their part in the nearly 10,000-mile (16,000 km) round trip voyage...
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    Muir S. Fairchild (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    General Muir Stephen Fairchild (September 2, 1894 – March 17, 1950) was a United States Air Force officer and the service's second Vice Chief of Staff...
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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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    provided close air support for US ground troops. Aircrews earned the Mackay Trophy for the most meritorious flight of the year, and the Tunner Award. During...
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    Ralph Royce (category Mackay Trophy winners)
    testing flying equipment in zero temperatures". For this, Royce won the Mackay Trophy. In July and August 1934, he piloted one of ten Martin B-10 bombers...
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