The annual François-Xavier Bagnoud Award is given to an individual Society member under the age of 35 for career-to-date outstanding contributions to vertical flight technology. This year’s award recipient is Patrick Darmstadt, Mechanical Design Engineer at the Boeing Company. Darmstadt has made significant contributions on vertical lift technology, especially towards propulsion systems and drivetrains, and safe electric propulsion. He is flanked by Mike Hirschberg, VFS Executive Director (left) and Tomasz Krysinski, VFS President of the Board and Airbus VP Research & Technology. (VFS photo by Warren Liebmann. CC-BY-SA 4.0)
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