The Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association
PRESS RELEASE
In order to mark the celebrations for the centenary of the first powered flights in a heavier-than-air machine by Wilbur and Orville Wright on December 17th 2003, the Irish Air Line Pilots’ Association is pleased to announce the creation of:
The IALPA Wright Brothers Award
This will in future be awarded to those individuals who have made a unique, pioneering or otherwise noteworthy contribution to aviation and/or the piloting profession.
As a result IALPA will, for the first time, be in a position to acknowledge and record laudable contributions to aviation, and most especially to the furtherance of Irish aviation.
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