Aviation study award

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34138, 27 April 1976, Page 23

Aviation study award

’ fK.Z Press Association) | AUCKLAND, A young New Zealander with a future in aviation will K et the chance to study aviation technology in the United States under the Pearse < entenary aviation study award to he made this year and taken up next year. ! he sponsors are the '■Auckland Star’’ and Air .sew Zealand. The award will commemorate the birth of the; New Zealand flight pioneer, Richard Pearse, in 1877. It will cover engineering, rerearch, and the hypersonic and avionic aspects of aviation, and will be open to any employee of an aviation! company in New Zealand. i Mr D. O. Walker, chair-! man of the New Zealand'

[lnternational Trade Fair ' Organising Committee, which arranged the award, said it would cover travel to ! and from the United States ‘and accommodation and ex- : penses while in that counj The Pearse Centenary’ study award was not intended for students, but for those who held, or were ex■jpected to hold, positions of (responsibility in aviation. i Applications will close on ‘September 24, and will be considered by a selection [committee comprising Mr Walker, Sir Geoffrey Roberts, a former chairman of I Air New Zealand, and a nominee of the sponsors, the "Auckland Star,” and Air New Zealand. The committee will make its decision by the end of October. [ The study must be completed by May, 1977, and a [report supplied by July 21, > 1977.