Question of the Week: <a href="http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/CollierTrophyNomineesAnnounced_208125-1.html">There are seven nominees this year</a>, but we'll also give you a write-in opportunity. Remember that the award criteria stipulates that the winner goes to "the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year."

Question of the Week

There are seven nominees this year, but we'll also give you a write-in opportunity. Remember that the award criteria stipulates that the winner goes to "the greatest achievement in aeronautics or astronautics in America, with respect to improving the performance, efficiency, and safety of air or space vehicles, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year."

Who or what should win this year's Collier?

Gulfstream 650

Felix Baumgartner and the Red Bull Stratos team

Lockheed Martin's autonomous K-Max helicopter

NASA/JPL Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity project

NASA/JPL Voyager Interstellar Mission project

U.S. Air Force MC-12 Project Liberty, which converted a King Air to military use as a crewed surveillance aircraft

NASA/JPL Dawn mission, which sent a spacecraft to investigate two dwarf planets to learn about the early history of our solar system

OTHER [My opinion doesn't appear as a choice — but maybe I'll send you an e-mail. (200 words or less, please.)]

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