Gallery: A Retrospective On Aviation Week Network's Laureate Award Winners (1990s)

For building the world’s largest express transportation company, achieving high customer and employee satisfaction, and participation in Operation Desert Shield.

For making air power the decisive element in the allied campaign to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi invaders.

For standing alone in 1992 as the profit-making major airline among the battered, debt-ridden U.S. airlines by maintaining its go-it-alone policy and short-haul philosophy.

The hundreds of men and women who designed and built hardware and planned and executed the first servicing mission of the Hubble Space Telescope.

For returning the U.S. to the moon after more than two decades with a low-cost, 1,000 lb. probe that mapped virtually the entire lunar surface with high resolution in ultraviolet, visible and infrared spectra.

For making aviation safety issues the chief focus on her tenure and launching a campaign to track down and prosecute providers of “bogus” airplane parts.

For the Boeing 777, the world’s largest commercial twinjet, which achieved a dispatch reliability rate of 98.4% in less than two years after entering service.

Lifetime achievement award for helping design the USAF/NASA X-15 hypersonic research aircraft and for perfecting it in flight.

For leading a fiercely independent aircraft manufacturer and achieving good financial health amidst declining post-Cold War military budgets.

For his drive in growing the upstart trans-Atlantic carrier into an airline with 29 aircraft flying to 18 destinations around the globe.