AVIATION WEEK Editors Claim Seven International Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards

LONDON, July 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Editorial team members from AVIATION WEEK were honored with seven prizes tonight at the World Leadership Forum's 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year Awards Dinner & Presentation Ceremony, held at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London. The prizes are known as the world's most important awards for aviation writers and broadcasters.

AVIATION WEEK journalists were honored with the following awards:

-- The Rockwell Collins Award for the Best Avionics Submission and the Gulfstream Award for the Aerospace Journalist of the Year to David Hughes for "Have Radar, Will Travel," Aviation Week & Space Technology

-- The Award for Best Breaking News Submission to Adrian Schofield for "Unlocking China's Skies," Aviation Week & Space Technology

-- The Award for Best Business Aircraft Submission to David Huntzinger for "On Duty Indefinitely," Business & Commercial Aviation

-- The Singapore Technologies Engineering Award for the Best Maintenance Submission to Jerome Chandler for "Inspections Now and in the Future," Overhaul & Maintenance

-- The Award for Best Propulsion Submission to David Esler for "Alternative Fuels for Jet Engines," Business & Commercial Aviation

-- The Award for Best Safety Submission to John Wiley for "Lightning: Ungrounded Fears, and Real Menace," Business & Commercial Aviation

Aviation Week & Space Technology, Business & Commercial Aviation, and Overhaul & Maintenance are published by AVIATION WEEK, the largest multimedia information and services provider to the global aerospace and defense industries. For more information and to view work by the award-winning journalists, visit www.aviationweek.com.

About AVIATION WEEK

AVIATION WEEK, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, is the largest multimedia information and services provider to the global aviation, aerospace and defense industries, and includes the publications Aviation Week & Space Technology, Defense Technology International, Business & Commercial Aviation, Overhaul & Maintenance, ShowNews, Aviation Daily, The Weekly of Business Aviation, Aerospace Daily & Defense Report and the World Aerospace Database. The group's website, http://www.aviationweek.com, offers the industry's most reliable news, information, search and online community tools. Premium content services include the Aviation Week Intelligence Network, an integrated business tool for managers, business developers, buyers and technical professionals, and MRO Prospector, a unique web-based suite of data and tools for business development and benchmarking in maintenance, repair and overhaul. The group also produces prominent conferences, exhibitions and management forums around the world.

About The McGraw-Hill Companies

Founded in 1888, The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE: MHP) is a leading global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands including Standard & Poor's, McGraw-Hill Education, BusinessWeek and J.D. Power and Associates. The Corporation has more than 280 offices in 40 countries. Sales in 2007 were $6.8 billion. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com.