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	AVID Receives AIAA Best Technical Paper Award On August 19, 2008, John Ohanian, Aircraft Design Engineer, accepted an outstanding paper award from AIAA on behalf of his co-authors Andy Ko, Aircraft Design Engineer and Paul Gelhausen, Chief Technology Officer. Presented by Ko at the August 2007 AIAA Modeling and Simulation Technologies Conference, their paper entitled, "Ducted Fan UAV Modeling and Simulation in Preliminary Design" stood out smong ninety-five other publications. AVID LLC congratulates our authors for their achievement at the AIAA Conference, the World's Forum for Aerospace Leadership.
	AVID design engineer helps lead student design team to top honors Andy Ko, an Aircraft Design Engineer with AVID, helped lead a team of Virginia Tech aerospace engineering students to first place honors in the 2008 NASA Aircraft Design Competition. Andy has served as an adjunct faculty member with Virginia Tech's Aerospace Engineering program, and was the advisor for Virginia Tech's six person team entry. Read the full article at Virginia Tech'ss College of Engineering website.
	AVID LLC Opens New Satellite Office in Halifax, VA. PRESS RELEASE, April 1, 2008 The regional office will be located in the Riverstone Technology Park. Sam B. Wilson III, CVO, will be located in the new Riverstone Office.
	AVID Design Key Contribution Enables NASA PAV Fan Success PRESS RELEASE, November 9, 2007 With design expertise and assistance of AVID LLC; Munro & Associates successfully demonstrated their latest ducted fan at the summer EAA AirVenture Air Show in Oshkosh, WI.
	Congress Shown FCS Spin-out Technologies by U.S. ARMY PRESS RELEASE, October 10, 2007 It's being called a few funny names: “beer keg UAV” and “scrubbing bubble” – but no matter – the Honeywell MAV, 50 of which are currently deployed in Iraq...
	AVID LLC bids farewell to an aviation pioneer: Dr. Paul MacCready PRESS RELEASE, September 5, 2007 AVID LLC bids farewell to an aviation pioneer: Dr. Paul MacCready. AeroVironment announced on August 29th that the founder and former chairman of AeroVironment had passed away at the age of 81.
	AVID LLC Partner Honeywell Deploys MAV to IRAQ PRESS RELEASE, June 22, 2007 Honeywell (www.honeywell.com) announced June 18th that its “Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) is set to deploy in IRAQ to keep American troops safer...”
	Scott Helsing, AVID LLC Aerospace Engineer, made inaugural President of Blue Ridge Chapter of the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International PRESS RELEASE, June 14, 2007 Scott Helsing was recently selected to serve as President of the newly formed AUVSI chapter.
	AVID LLC Announces NewVA Corridor Tech Council Award PRESS RELEASE, May 18, 2007 AVID LLC proudly announces its receipt of the The NewVa Corridor Technology Council's “High Tech Company of the Year” award.
	AVID LLC Announces Increased and Rapid Computational Power: Meet “Boyd” PRESS RELEASE, April 17, 2007 Meet “Boyd”, AVID's new eight-node, 32-processor, Linux cluster in it's Yorktown office.
	Delegate Dave Nutter from the 7th District of the Virginia State House of Representatives visits AVID LLC PRESS RELEASE, February 9, 2007 Delegate Dave Nutter visited Blacksburg recently to meet with AVID LLC President Sam Wilson and CFO Nanci Hardwick to learn more about their operations, tour the AVID LLC facility...
	AVID LLC announces Software Pixels On Target (SPOT) is now available PRESS RELEASE, January 31, 2007 AVID LLC, a leading research and development firm for unconventional concepts in aircraft design, announces its newest product, Software Pixels On Target (SPOT), is now available for anyone who needs...
	AVID LLC announces www.avidaerospace.com as new address PRESS RELEASE, January 17, 2007 AVID LLC, a leading research and development firm for unconventional concepts in aircraft design, announces its move to a new web address...

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