Dr. John S. Langford is the Founder and CEO of Electra.aero, a startup developing hybrid electric aircraft for regional mobility, flying the Electra EL-2 Goldfinch as a demonstrator.
He was elected President of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in April 2017.
He founded Aurora Flight Sciences in 1989 in order to design and manufacture high altitude UAVs that could be used for global climate change research,[1][2] and was its President and C.E.O.
[4] In April 2017, John Langford was elected President of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA).
[6] In 2018, he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for the application of autonomy and robotics to the design, development, production, and operation of advanced aircraft.