This Frost & Sullivan award is given each year to the small company that demonstrated superior entrepreneurial ability in its industry. This award signifies the company's identification of a unique and revolutionary product solution with significant market potential. Additionally, the award certifies that the company's marketing strategy is sound and poised for success. Quoting from the citation: "This company is working harder, faster, and more efficiently than its more established competitors and is making solid inroads in the market despite the limitations of a small company."
Selected by the editors of Chief Executive
Magazine for their first annual 1996 Best New Products list compiling
the best product innovations released during the past 18 months.
Selected by the editors of R&D Magazine
for their 1996 Research & Development Award recognizing the
100 most technologically significant products developed over the
past year.
Selected by the editors of Popular Mechanics
Magazine for their 1996 Design & Engineering Award. (Rockwell
with its X-31 was the other aerospace winner.)
Added to the US Small Business Administration's
list of the 86 most important inventions of the 20th century by
small firms in the US, joining the integrated circuit, the personal
computer, the helicopter, the Wright Brothers' airplane and air
conditioning.
Grand Prize Winner, Excellence
in Design, Design News Magazine, recognizing the breakthrough
technology of the Tilt-Body invention.
Discover Award for Technological Innovation, selected from thousands of candidates, including the McDonnell Douglas MD90 and NASA entries. Judges included astronauts Scott Carpenter, Buzz Aldrin and Wally Schirra.
Experimental Aircraft Association gave
Freewing a special award for Technological Innovation, in recognition
of the advanced safety and comfort of the Company's technology.