Project Zefiro

Student Team

Emanuele De Villa Bais, Tommaso Gadarco (team leader), Fabrizio Gaspari, Carlo Grego, Giovanni Pavese

Supervisors

Lorenzo Trainelli ↗, Carlo E. D. Riboldi ↗

Competition

“Vital” prize

Competition type

Graduate student design competition

Sponsorship

“Elisa Genovese” Trust (educational private entity)

Ranking

Winner

The Zefiro is a tandem-seat ultralight motorglider designed to improve thermal sailing performance with reduced costs of acquisition and operation. Ideal for training missions, it has been conceived considering applicable European regulations and successfully compared with current competitors.

1. Gadarco T., “Un progetto italiano: Motoaliante ULM Zefiro”, VFR Aviation, n. 7, Gennaio 2016 (newspaper article ↗).