Aug 2 1999
From The Space Library
NASA announced the student winners of the 1998-1999 National General Aviation Design Competition, sponsored by NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). A team of 33 students at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, had produced the winning design, "aimed at attracting customers who want to move from propeller-driven craft to jets without needing a significant increase in pilot skill." A 13-member team from Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, won second place for their "Baracuda," an acronym for Boldly Advanced and Refined Aircraft Concept Under Development for AGATE, a national, general aviation revitalization program. The team's "conventional-layout, modern-composite airplane featuring advanced aerodynamics, systems, and avionics" was a four-place, single-engine, jet-powered aircraft. A three-university team the University of Virginia, Old Dominion University in Hampton, Virginia, and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York-won third place for a "highly innovative design known as the `Yeah Man'," a craft with two tail booms, each with vertical tails. The aircraft, which NASA scientists had tested in the Full Scale Wind Tunnel at Langley Research Center, showed good aerodynamic characteristics.
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