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| Embry Riddle Aeronautical University's first place award design is a lightweight, four-passenger, general aviation jet.
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| Pennsylvania State University's second place award design,
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| The third-prize winner
By U. of Va., Old Dominion U., and Pratt Inst. students
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| Ohio State University's supersonic business jet design won the award for Best Use of Technology Developed by the Air Force Research Laboratory.
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|  | NASA and FAA Pick Student Aircraft Design Winners
By Kenneth Silber
Staff Writer
posted: 11:54 am ET
03 August 1999
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NASA and the Federal Aviation Administration presented awards in their annual National General Aviation Design Competition, a contest for university students. The winners were announced at AirVenture '99, an experimental aircraft convention in Oshkosh, Wisconin.
Top prize went to students from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, Florida, for a design that allows pilots to move from propeller-driven craft to jets without needing much additional training. The prize awards $3,000 to the design team and $5,000 to the university's aerospace engineering department.
Second prize went to Pennsylvania State University students for a single-engine jet-powered aircraft. Third prize was awarded to a three-university team from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Old Dominion University in Hampton, Virginia, and Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York. Their design was noted for its unusual vertical tail boom.
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