Quietest Aircraft Prize Addresses One Of The Biggest Threats To
Aviation
At the NASA Green Flight Challenge, Erik Lindbergh, founder of
LEAP, announced the first winner of the Lindbergh Prize for
Quietest Aircraft. The prize was awarded to e-Genius, a
two-seat electric airplane designed and built by University of
Stuttgart Institute of Aircraft Design under the leadership of
Professor Rudolf Voit-Nitschmann and his two assistants Len
Schumann and Steffen Geinitz, and piloted by Eric Raymond and Klaus
Ohlmann. Accompanying the prize was a cash award of $10,000,
generously donated by Jean Schulz, widow of Charles M. Schulz for
whom the airport where the competition took place was named.
Read More
