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Clark Wins NBAA Meritorious Award for Winglets
Technology has saved two billion gallons of fuel and reduced emissions.

Joe Clark, chairman and CEO of Aviation Partners received the NBAA Meritorious Service Award on Wednesday at NBAA 2015 for technical achievements contributing to a healthy environment. His company’s blended winglets have saved operators some two billion gallons of fuel, thereby significantly reducing emissions, NBAA president and CEO Ed Bolen said during the second-day opening session.

Clark, accepting the organization’s highest honor, noted his first NBAA Convention was in 1965. “Fifty years later, I can’t believe it myself,” he said.

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