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Slovenia-based Pipistrel Aircraft has won the Aircraft Design Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), for its environmentally friendly Velis Electro. During a virtual award ceremony in August, the AIAA singled out the technical team behind the Velis Electro—a two-seat, prop-driven trainer powered by an electric motor. Accepting the award on behalf […]

Michimasa Fujino, lead HondaJet designer and president and CEO of Honda Aircraft Company, has received the 2021 Reed Aeronautics Award for “the invention of advanced aerodynamic and structural techniques.” Fujino was honored on Thursday by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics during its Aerospace Spotlight Awards Gala, which was held virtually this year as […]