David Brody

XTI Aircraft

David Brody is the founder and Chairman of XTI Aircraft Company.  Mr. Brody has had a life-long passion for aircraft, science and technology.  He was also the founder of an advanced technology helicopter company in 2005 (AVX Aircraft Company, which continues to operate successfully in Fort Worth, Texas), served as Chairman and CEO of AVX, and remains on the AVX board.  He began developing the TriFan 600 vertical takeoff airplane in 2012, and hired an aerospace engineering team, led by XTI’s Chief Engineer, Dr. Dennis Olcott, who further contributed to designing and developing this revolutionary aircraft. Mr. Brody has ten patents issued in his name for inventions in aircraft technology and other fields, and has written three books, including a national Book-of-the-Month Club best seller on science and technology, The Science Class You Wish You Had, The Seven Greatest Scientific Discoveries in History and the People Who Made Them (Putnam Berkeley, New York 1997, 2nd edition, 2013).