Dear Colleague,

Aerospace established the Best Paper Awards to recognize its best published original research articles.

Nominations were selected by the Editorial Office of Aerospace based on the number of citations, views and downloads from the website. All research articles published in 2018 were eligible for consideration. The selection committee was chaired by the Editor-in-Chief, Prof. Dr. Konstantinos Kontis, and supported by the Editorial Board Members. They examined each paper and expressed their recommendations for the ranking of the “Aerospace Best Paper Awards” 2018.

Single-Sensor Acoustic Emission Source Localization in Plate-Like Structures Using Deep Learning
Arvin Ebrahimkhanlou and Salvatore Salamone
Aerospace 2018, 5(2), 50; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace5020050

Fast Aircraft Turnaround Enabled by Reliable Passenger Boarding
Michael Schultz
Aerospace 2018, 5(1), 8; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace5010008

Sound Absorption Characterization of Natural Materials and Sandwich Structure Composites
Jichun Zhang, Yiou Shen, Bing Jiang and Yan Li
Aerospace 2018, 5(3), 75; https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace5030075

These three papers are valuable contributions to Aerospace. On behalf of the selection committee, we congratulate the winners for their significant contributions and thank them for choosing Aerospace to publish their best work. In recognition of their accomplishments, they will be awarded the privilege of publishing an additional research paper, with all publication fees waived, in open access format in Aerospace, after the standard peer-review procedure.