2025 AIAA “Texy” Awards
15 May 2025, UTA
Event photos available at
AIAA North Texas Engage Website
All event photos dropped at: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Gqdt9hqAGrtd67hD6c1A1TUQLf4QqPUU?usp=sharing
Nominations and more on the beta version of our new AIAA North Texas app, Luft Orgs, under the AIAA tab now available in the Apple App Store.
Networking/Social Event for Summer Interns, Young Professionals, and All!
Full Scale Stop-fold Transition Demonstration on a High-Speed Test Track
Troy Schank, Bell
16 July 2025
6pm
Texas Star
1400 Texas Star Pkwy, Euless, TX 76040
More details to follow
2025-26 North Texas Officer and Advisory Board Elections
The list of nominees for 2025-26 AAIA North Texas Officers is provided below for your consideration.
If you desire to run for an office or the Advisory Board, please reply back by 24 June May 2025.
We would like to thank the Advisory Board members listed below who have “timed out” reaching their maximum terms on the board. We honored them at the AIAA North Texas Awards on 15 May at UTA and list them again below to thank them for all their efforts in supporting our many activities over the last several years, from making paper airplanes with kids to reviewing resumes at UTA and judging the Region IV Student Paper Competetion at UTD. Also, thanks to Kevin Debord, UTD past president, who served on the Advisory Board for the last year but has already moved to his new job in Seattle working as an RF engineer at Amazon Kuiper.
Retiring North Texas Advisory Board Members
Thank you for your Service to AIAA!
Mr. Kevin Christensen
Bell Flight Controls Specialist, USAF (Ret.) F-22 Test Pilot
Mr. Kevin Debord
UTD Student Chapter Past President
Dr. Chi Mai
US Government; Eglin AFB, General Accounting Office
Mr. Paul Park
Design Expert; General Dynamics/LM, UTA Design Instructor retired
Mr. Erasmo Pinero
Propulsion Expert; LM, Bell, Airborne Tactical Advantage Company
Mr. Robert Wetherall
Program Manager, Aircraft Design Expert; General Dynamics/LM retired
2025-26 AAIA North Texas Officers
Nominees
Officers
Chair
Mr. James Sergeant, Retired LM/GD, VG
Vice Chair
Mr. Mike Fox, Retired LM
Secretary
Mr. Chris Hughes, LM
Treasurer
Mr. Dana Johnson, LM
Advisory Board
Mr. Jim Acree
USN, FAA, American Airlines (retired); DER Test Pilot
Ms. Angela Buccio
Bell
Dr. Dennis Finley
Lockheed Martin
Dr. Vijay Gopal|
UTA Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Mr. Ben Jeffrey
UTD Student Chapter Past President
Ms. Deeva Khanuja
UTA Aero Mavs
Mr. Art Sheridan
Retired LM/GD
Ms. Amber Zuehl
Lockheed Martin
Luft Orgs
New App developed by AIAA North Texas
The new Luft Orgs app has been developed by AIAA North Texas and UTA intern volunteers and registered with Apple for use by AIAA North Texas and other aerospace organizations. Although still just a beta version, it has been released and is available for free download from Apple App Store. More info on all the 2025 AIAA North Texas Award nominees and winners is available in the app under the AIAA tab.