Organised for our aircraft designers of the future, with teams competing from the UK, the USA, and the Netherlands. Entries ranged from supersonic aircraft to a crop sprayer – providing a fascinating flight testing opportunity for the judges, Dave Southwood and Gordon McClymont from The Empire Test Pilots’ School.
Supreme this year was The Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences – winning with Sam le Poole’s ATLAS – unmanned blended wing body cargo freighter, and second with Mike Hartman’s E-SPARC, an electrically sustainably propelled aerobatic racing aircraft. Mike also won the prize for The Most Innovative Aircraft Design.
