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 managed the MIT Daedalus human powered aircraft project while he was a student at MIT. He founded Aurora Flight Sciences in 1989. He was elected President of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) in April 2017.