AIAA Foundation Announces Winners of its 2017-2018 Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition – Advanced Pilot Training Aircraft) Written 17 December 2018

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December 17, 2018 – Reston, Va. – The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Foundation is pleased to announce the winners of its 2017-2018 Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition – Advanced Pilot Training Aircraft. 

The competition asked AIAA student teams to design an advanced pilot training aircraft. 

The winners are: 

• First Prize: University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia, for their design “FSB-TX Advanced Jet Trainer.” Tibor Gašparac, Matea Lišnić, Hrvoje Magdić, Antonio Golub, Kristijan Ruklić, Vjekoslav Sraga, Antonio Klasnić, Antonio Jurišić, Fran Delić, Ivan Kovačević. Prof. Pero Prebeg, faculty advisor; Prof. Milan Vrdoljak, faculty advisor. Team name: FSB-TX.


• Second Prize: Université de Liège, Liège, Belgium, for their design “The Coyote-A Training Jet Fighter.”Raphaël Dubois, Thibault Laurent, Alex Le Van, Nayan Levaux, Guillaume Noiset, Axel Piret, Arthur Scheffer, Vincent Schmitz. Dr. Grigorios Dimitriadis, faculty advisor; Dr. Ludovic Noels, faculty advisor. Team name: The Beep Beep Hunting Club.


• Third Prize: Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, for their design “A Cost-efficient Multi-task APTA”Zahra Kamankesh, M. Hasan Sabeti, S. Reza Fattahi Masoom, Farid Rassouli, Ashkan Bagherzadeh, Milad Gheibi, Amir Hajizadeh, Mahsa A. Nakhost, Mohammad Beigi, Sina Nazifi, Amir Jahanbakhsh. Prof. S. Mohamad Bagher Maleek, faculty advisor. Team name: ShadX.

For more information about the AIAA Foundation Graduate Team Aircraft Design Competition, please contact Rachel Dowdy at racheld@aiaa.org or 703.264.7577.  

About the AIAA Foundation 
The AIAA Foundation seeks to “make it exciting, make it empowering, and make it fun.” That simple, compelling philosophy drives the Foundation’s commitment to math, science, and technology education. The AIAA Foundation offers a wealth of resources to support educators from K–12 through university: scholarships, classroom grants, design competitions, and student conferences, improving scientific literacy and advancing the arts and sciences of aerospace. For more information on the AIAA Foundation and its programs for students, teachers, and professionals, please visit www.aiaafoundation.org. 

About AIAA 
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) is the world’s largest aerospace technical society. With nearly 30,000 individual members from 85 countries, and 95 corporate members, AIAA brings together industry, academia, and government to advance engineering and science in aviation, space, and defense. For more information, visit  www.aiaa.org, or follow us on Twitter  @AIAA.

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