While aerospace stakeholders hope for an optimistic outcome, they must also plan for the possibility of pessimistic scenarios.
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Vaibhav Kumar, an aerospace engineering graduate student at Georgia Tech and one of Aviation Week’s 2019 20 Twenties winners, talks about founding startup AirLogs—which seeks to save mechanics time by digitally analyzing maintenance records.
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