Students win NASA/DLR Design Challenge

The student team from the University of Stuttgart has won this year's NASA/DLR Design Challenge held at the beginning of August 2019 with their design "HyBird". The design challenge was organized by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in cooperation with NASA. The aim of the competition was to develop a passenger airplane for nine people which can be used to supply and connect remote regions from 2025 onwards. The airplane "HyBird" designed by the five aerospace students has a low fuel consumption and produces less noise pollution than existing aircraft. It was this that won over the jury from the German Aerospace Center. It assessed the design, which was convincingly presented by University of Stuttgart students Jonas Mangold, Michael Lang, Jonathan Stober, Felix Ladwein and Florian Will, as "fulfilling all design criteria", and "a clever combination of technologies". The team was overseen by Prof. Andreas Strohmayer, Ingmar Geiß and Johannes Schneider from the Institute of Aircraft Design (IFB) at the University of Stuttgart.