{"id":595110,"date":"2023-08-02T09:11:25","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T03:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=595110"},"modified":"2023-08-02T09:37:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-02T04:07:57","slug":"indian-origin-creator-receives-s-africas-nstf-award-for-aircraft-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/indian-origin-creator-receives-s-africas-nstf-award-for-aircraft-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian-origin creator receives S Africa&#8217;s NSTF award for aircraft project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by a South African Indian-origin innovator has received a national award for a project he has been working on for almost a decade to create a pioneering vertical take-off and landing aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>The Pegasus Universal Aerospace Team, led by well-known aesthetics doctor Reza Mia, 40, received the prestigious National Science and Technology (NSTF) award in the category for Innovation and research. <\/p>\n<p>The NSTF Awards &#8211; which are endorsed by the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation &#8211; honour and celebrate outstanding contributions to science, engineering and technology (SET) and innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team led by a South African Indian-origin innovator has received a national award for a project he has been working on for almost a decade to create a pioneering vertical take-off and landing aircraft. The Pegasus Universal Aerospace Team, led by well-known aesthetics doctor Reza Mia, 40, received the prestigious National Science and Technology (NSTF) award in the category for Innovation and research. The NSTF Awards &#8211; which are endorsed by the Department of Higher Education, Science and Innovation &#8211; honour and celebrate outstanding contributions to science, engineering and technology (SET) and innovation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-595110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=595110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=595110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}