Awarded to an individual journalist, publication or organisation for an outstanding contribution to the promotion or public awareness of aviation in general or of any important aspect of aviation activity.

2010 Awarded to:  GLOBAL AVIATION RESOURCE (coverage of the withdrawal from service of the Harrier)

The news at the end of last year that the UK Harrier Force was to be withdrawn from service gave rise to considerable media coverage.  Aviators have become used to poor and inaccurate reporting related to their profession and this announcement triggered its fair share of such reports.

However, the internetâbased aviation magazine 'Global Aviation Resource' (http:www.globalaviationresource.com/news.php) was quite outstanding in the way it planned and executed its coverage of this story.  Over a period of several weeks it carried a series of in- depth and extremely well researched and illustrated articles of the complete UK jet VSTOL history, starting with the original P1127 through to the final operational days of Joint Force Harrier.  The less well known service of the Harrier with overseas air arms was also very well covered at a time when it would have been all too easy to ignore an important aspect of the aircraft's history, development and usage that required much more research than the UK aspects.

Harrier programme insiders commended the accurate and sound reporting on the history and development of this iconic aircraft, in the true interests of public awareness of this aspect of British aviation and, accordingly for its articles on the Harrier, ‘Global Aviation Resource' is awarded the Guild Award for Aviation Journalism.

PREVIOUS WINNERS

2006 Richard Gardner Esq

2007 Hugh Field Esq

2008 Flight International

2009 Not Awarded

2010 Global Aviation Resource