GasTOPS Employee Receives Roméo Vachon Award
Ottawa, Canada (May 03, 2005): It is with great
pleasure that GasTOPS announces that Aiden Donahue, Program Manager for
GasTOPS’ Shearwater operations, was the recent recipient of the Roméo
Vachon Award for outstanding achievement in the field of Canadian aviation.
The award was presented to Aiden by the Canadian Aeronautics and Space
Institute (CASI) at their recent Annual Conference.
The Roméo Vachon Award
The Roméo Vachon Award was introduced in 1969 by the Canadian Aeronautics
and Space Institute (CASI) in memory of one of Canada's outstanding bush
pilots. It is presented for outstanding display of initiative, ingenuity
and practical skills in the solution of a particular challenging problem
or series of problems in aeronautics and space activities in Canada.
The achievement for which the award is given is of a technological nature,
particularly practical skills.
Mr. Aiden Donahue
Aiden has spent most of his career working with, or on behalf of, the
Canadian Air Force in the support of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft.
He joined
the CAF in 1974 as a Private Airman. Although his training was as an
aircraft technician, he developed a lifelong personal interest in the
specialized
area of condition monitoring and how this might be used to improve aircraft
maintenance practices. As a member of the CAF, he played a lead role
in the application of vibration monitoring and oil analysis methods to
CAF
aircraft and in the development of condition-based maintenance procedures
based on these new methods. In 1998, Aiden joined GasTOPS to lead our
newly launched Integrated Health Monitoring (IHM) program for the Sea
King helicopter
fleet. Since then, through Aiden’s outstanding individual efforts
and his leadership of our IHM team in Shearwater, the IHM program has
gained worldwide recognition for its innovative approach and success
in improving
the reliability and availability of the Sea King fleet.
GasTOPS Ltd.
GasTOPS Ltd. is a leading provider of machinery control and health monitoring
products for critical assets in aerospace, marine, energy and industrial
applications.
Dave Muir
Vice-President Marketing
GasTOPS Ltd.
1011 Polytek St.
Ottawa, ON
K1J 9J3
(613) 744-3530
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