Our very special thanks again to Aldo Spadoni who was our guest speaker for the recent Joint Group 7 Meeting that was hosted at Squadron 150 headquarters at Los Alamitos Joint Forces Training Base. Aldo gave a very interesting talk about "Exploring the Boundaries of Art, Design, Aerospace Engineering and Popular Culture."
Aldo is the President of Aerospace Imagineering, is an MIT graduate with extensive experience as an aerospace engineer, conceptual designer, and futurist. He has contributed to the conceptual, prototype, and production design of numerous advanced aircraft, missiles, and spacecraft For NASA, DARPA and The U.S. Armed Services. He created an award-winning simulation team at Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems. Aldo is also an accomplished concept designer/inventor with four U.S. patents, space artist, and Hollywood technical consultant. He has worked on movies such as Iron Man, Stealth and Iron Man 2.
He is a Fellow of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA) and is currently serving on its Board of Trustees. Some examples of his work can be found in the link here https://fineartamerica.com/profiles/aldo-spadoni.html