The selection committee, consisting of 401/402 (aircraft) instructors plus other assigned faculty members, have selected MANUREVA AEROSPACE, designers of the Loki F-75, as the winning team of the Lowy Award for Spring 2009.

Back row, L to R: Adam Sexton, Professor Strganac, Tyler Rudloff, Professor Valasek, Professor Boyd, Adam Campbell
Front row, kneeling L to R: Edgar Wingo, Taylor Vaughn, Stephen Wells, Robert Keiser

Selection for the Lowy Award  was based on the complete design-to-flight process. All three teams – Ascension Aerospace, Applied Industries, and Manureva Aerospace – completed all elements of the 401/402 design-build-test-fly sequence with success. All three teams met challenges in their first flight, requiring repairs and modifications, and conducted successful final flights. Manuerva Aerospace was selected because the selection committee agreed that Manureva’s airplane retained substantial elements of their original design into the flight vehicle. For example, they retained the original complexity of the wing taper, fuselage dimensions, and tail configuration, and following the first flight tests, properly identified the modification necessary for the scaled version of their original design.

By: Thomas Strganac