A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Unveiled last year at NBAA-BACE, the company uses cutting-edge chemistry to fuse traditional jewelry techniques with aerospace technology to create a decorative, highly-customizable material derived from high-performance natural fibers and a resin matrix. It can be produced in near limitless colors, textures, thickness, and patterns ranging from a metallic stingray skin theme&nbsp;to textured glowing geometric patterns. The lightweight, flexible material can be utilized for a wide variety of applications in the aviation and luxury yacht interior completions markets&nbsp;using ingredients such as metals, ground mother of pearl, or repurposed byproducts from the company’s stone fittings shop to create unique compositions.
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F/List's Aenigma Material Wins Red Dot Design Award for Product Design

F/List's recently introduced Aenigma sustainably-engineered fabrics has earned the Thomasberg, Austria company a Red Dot Award for product design.

F/List's Aenigma Material Wins Design Award

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