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Royal Aeronautical Society

Abbreviation	RAeS
Formation	January 1866
Type	Professional institution
Legal status	Non-profit company
Location	4 Hamilton Place, London, W1 United kingdom
Region served	Worldwide
Chief Executive	David Edwards FRAeS
Main organ	Board of Trustees
Affiliations	Engineering Council
Website	aerosociety.com

The Royal Aeronautical Society, also known as the RAeS, is a British multi-disciplinary professional institution dedicated to the global aerospace community. Founded in 1866, it is the oldest aeronautical society in the world. Members, Fellows, and Companions of the society can use the post-nominal letters MRAeS, FRAeS, or CRAeS, respectively.

Function

The objectives of The Royal Aeronautical Society include: to support and maintain high professional standards in aerospace disciplines; to provide a unique source of specialist information and a local forum for the exchange of ideas; and to exert influence in the interests of aerospace in the public and industrial arenas, including universities.

The Royal Aeronautical Society is a worldwide society with an international network of 67 branches. Many practitioners of aerospace disciplines use the Society's designatory post-nominals such as FRAeS, CRAeS, MRAeS, AMRAeS, and ARAeS (incorporating the former graduate grade, GradRAeS).

The RAeS headquarters is at 4 Hamilton Place, London, W1J 7BQ. In addition to offices for its staff the building is used for Society events and parts of the building are available for private hire.

Publications

The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society: ISSN 0368-3931 (1923–1967)
The Aeronautical Quarterly: (1949–1983)
Aerospace: (1969–1997)
Aerospace International: ISSN 1467-5072 (1997–2013)
The Aerospace Professional: (1998–2013)
The Aeronautical Journal: ISSN 0001-9240 (1897 to date)
The Journal of Aeronautical History: (2011 to date)
AEROSPACE: ISSN 2052-451X (2013 to date)

Branches and divisions

Branches deliver membership benefits and disseminate aerospace information. As of September 2013, branches located in the United Kingdom include: Belfast, Birmingham, Boscombe Down, Bristol, Brough, Cambridge, Cardiff, Chester, Christchurch, Coventry, Cranfield, Cranwell, Derby, FAA Yeovilton, Farnborough, Gatwick, Gloucester & Cheltenham, Hatfield, Heathrow, Highland, Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, Loughborough, Manchester, Marham, Medway, Oxford, Preston, Prestwick, Sheffield, Solent, Southend, Stevenage, Swindon, Weybridge, and Yeovil.

The RAeS international branch network includes: Adelaide, Auckland, Blenheim, Brisbane, Brussels, Canberra, Canterbury, Cyprus, Dublin, Hamburg, Hamilton, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Melbourne, Montreal, Munich, Palmerston North, Paris, Perth, Seattle, Singapore, Sydney, Toulouse, and the UAE.

Divisions of the Society have been formed in countries and regions that can sustain a number of Branches. Divisions operate with a large degree of autonomy, being responsible for their own branch network, membership recruitment, subscription levels, conference and lecture programmes.

Specialist Groups covering various facets of the aerospace industry exist under the overall umbrella of the Society, with the aim of serving the interests of both enthusiasts and industry professionals. Their remit is to consider significant developments in their field through conferences and lectures, with the intention of stimulating debate and facilitating action on key industry issues. The Groups also act as focal points for all enquiries to the Society concerning their specialist subject matter.

As of September 2013, the Specialist Group committees are: Aerodynamics, Aerospace Medicine, Air Power, Air Law, Air Transport, Airworthiness & Maintenance, Avionics & Systems, Environment, Flight Operations, Flight Simulation, Flight Test, General Aviation, Greener by Design, Historical, Human Factors, Human Powered Flight, Propulsion, Rotorcraft, Space, Structures & Materials, UAS, Weapons Systems & Technologies, and Women in Aviation & Aerospace.

In 2009, the Royal Aeronautical Society formed a group of experts to document how to better simulate aircraft upset conditions, and thus improve training programmes.

History

The Society was founded in January 1866 with the name "The Aeronautical Society of Great Britain" and is the oldest aeronautical society in the world. Early or founding members included James Glaisher, Francis Wenham, the Duke of Argyll, and Frederick Brearey. In the first year, there were 65 members, at the end of the second year, 91 members, and in the third year, 106 members. Annual reports were produced in the first decades. In 1868 the Society held a major exhibition at London's Crystal Palace with 78 entries. John Stringfellow's steam engine was shown there. The Society sponsored the first wind tunnel in 1870–71, designed by Wenham and Browning.

In 1918, the organisation's name was changed to the Royal Aeronautical Society.

In 1923 its principal journal was renamed from The Aeronautical Journal to The Journal of the Royal Aeronautical Society and in 1927 the Institution of Aeronautical Engineers Journal was merged into it.

In 1940, the RAeS responded to the wartime need to expand the aircraft industry. The Society established a Technical Department to bring together the best available knowledge and present it in an authoritative and accessible form – a working tool for engineers who might come from other industries and lack the specialised knowledge required for aircraft design. This technical department became known as the Engineering Sciences Data Unit (ESDU) and eventually became a separate entity in the 1980s.

In 1987 the 'Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers and Technologists', previously called the 'Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers' was incorporated into the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Presidents

The following have served as President of the Royal Aeronautical Society:

1886–95 George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll
1895–00 (None)
1900–07 B. Baden-Powell
1907–08 (None)
1908–11 E. P. Frost
1911–19 (None)
1919–26 William Weir, 1st Viscount Weir
1926–27 Air Vice Marshal Sir William Sefton Brancker
1927–30 W Forbes-Sempill
1930–34 C. R. Fairey
1934–36 J. Moore-Brabazon
1936–38 H. E. Wimperis
1938–40 R. Fedden
1940–42 G. Brewer
1942–44 A. Gouge
1944–45 Sir Roy Fedden
1945–47 F. H. Page
1947–49 H. R. Cox
1949–50 J. Buchanan
1950–51 G. P. Bulman
1951–52 F. B. Halford
1952–53 G. Dowty
1953–54 Sir William Farren
1954–55 S. Camm
1955–56 N. E. Rowe
1956–57 E. T. Jones
1957–58 G. R. Edwards
1958–59 A. A. Hall
1959–60 P. G. Masefield
1960–61 E. S. Moult
1961–62 R. O. Jones
1962–63 B. S. Shenstone
1963–64 A. R. Collar
1964–65 H.H Gardner
1965–66 Sir George Gardner
1966- Honorary President Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
1966–67 A.D Baxter
1967–68 M.B Morgan
1968–69 David Keith-Lucas
1969–70 F. R. Banks
1970–71 Air Commodore J.R Morgan
1971–72 S.D Davies
1972–73 K.G Wilkinson
1973–74 Dr G.S Hislop
1974–75 B.P Laight
1975–76 Air Marshal Sir Charles Pringle
1976–77 C. Abell
1977–78 Handel Davies
1978–79 Professor L.F Crabtree
1979–80 R.P Probert
1980–81 P.A Hearne
1981–82 J.T Stamper
1982–83 Captain E.M Brown
1983–84 Professor M.G Farley
1984–85 Geoffrey Pardoe
1985–86 Thomas Kerr
1986–87 John Fozard
1987–88 John Stollery
1988–89 Dr P.H Calder
1989–90 Dr H. Metcalfe
1990–91 G.C Howell
1991–92 G.M McCoombe
1992–93 Air Marshal Sir Frank Holroyd
1993–94 Dr G.G Pope
1994–95 Sir C.B.G Masefield
1995–96 Sir Donald Spiers
1996–97 Professor John Green
1997–98 Stewart M John
1998–99 Captain W.D Lowe
1999–00 Lanthony Edwards
2000–01 Trevor Trueman
2001–02 Professor Ian Poll
2002–03 Lee Balthazor
2003–04 Air Marshal Sir Peter Norriss
2004–05 Roland Fairfield
2005–06 Air Marshal Sir Colin Terry
2006–07 Gordon F. Page
2007–08 David Marshall
2008–09 Captain David Rowland
2009–10 Dr. Mike Steeden
2010–11 Air Vice-Marshal David Couzens
2011–12 Lee Balthazor
2012–13 Phil Boyle
2013–14 Jenny Body
2014–15 Air Commodore Bill Tyack
2015–16 Martin Broadhurst
2016 Honorary President Prince Charles, Prince of Wales
2016–17 Professor Chris Atkin
2017–18 Sir Stephen Dalton FRAeS
2018–19 Rear Adm Simon Henley CEng FRAeS
2019–21 Professor Jonathan Cooper
2021–22 Howard Nye MInstP FRAeS
2022–23 Air Cdre Peter Round FRAeS
2023–24 Kerissa Khan MRAeS
2024–25 David Chinn FRAeS

Chief Executives

Keith Mans was chief executive from 1998–2009
Simon Luxmoore was chief executive from 2009–2018
Sir Brian Burridge CBE FRAeS, from 1 October 2018
David Edwards FRAeS, from 1 October 2021

Medals and awards

Main article: List of RAeS medal recipients

In addition to the award of Fellowship of the Royal Aeronautical Society (FRAeS), the Society awards several other medals and prizes. These include its Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals. The very first gold medal was awarded in 1909 to the Wright Brothers. Although it is unusual for more than one medal (in each of the three grades) to be awarded annually, since 2004 the Society has also periodically awarded team medals (Gold, Silver, and Bronze) for exceptional or groundbreaking teamwork in aeronautical research and development. Others awarded have included the R. P. Alston Memorial Prize for developments in flight-testing, the Edward Busk prize for applied aerodynamics, the Wakefield Medal for advances in aviation safety, and an Orville Wright Prize. Honorary Fellowships and Honorary Companionships are awarded as well.

The Sir Robert Hardingham Sword The Sir Robert Hardingham Sword is awarded in recognition of outstanding service to the RAeS by a member of the Society. Nominally an annual award, in practice the award is only made about one year in two.

Notable Medal recipients

Notable Gold Medal recipients include:

Honorary Fellows

1950 Sir Thomas Sopwith
1953 The Duke of Edinburgh
1954 Air Commodore Sir Frank Whittle
1957 The Prince of The Netherlands
1959 Professor J. Ackeret
1960 Sir George Edwards
1962 N. E. Rowe
1963 Sir Alfred Pugsley
1964 Sir Denning Pearson
1965 Sir Arnold Hall
1969 Dr R. R. Gilruth
1969 Lord Kings Norton
1969 Sir Archibald Russell
1970 Sir Robert Cockburn
1971 Professor Sydney Goldstein
1974 S. D. Davies
1975 C. Abell
1975 H. A. L. Ziegler
1976 Sir Keith Granville
1977 Sir William Hawthorne
1978 The Prince of Wales
1978 Dr O. Nagano
1978 Dr W. Tye
1979 Professor D. Keith-Lucas
1980 E. H. Heinemann
1980 Sir Frederick Page
1980 Sir Peter Masefield
1981 Sir Robert Hunt
1982 H. Davies
1983 Dr G. S. Hislop
1983 Professor Dipl-Ing G. Madelung
1983 R. H. Beteille
1984 J. T. Stamper
1984 Professor A. D. Young
1984 Sir Philip Foreman
1985 J. F. Sutter
1985 King Hussein of Jordan
1985 Sir Roy Sisson
1986 Professor J. H. Argyris
1986 Dr K. G. Wilkinson
1987 F. Cereti
1988 Professor H. Ashley
1988 G. P. Dollimore
1989 Admiral Sir Raymond Lygo
1989 Air Marshal Sir Charles Pringle
1989 F. d' Allest
1990 P. A. Hearne
1990 Sir James Lighthill
1991 Sir Ralph Robins
1992 Professor Em Dr-Ing K. H. Doetsch
1992 Sir John Charnley
1992 G. H. Lee
1993 The Duke of Kent
1993 Professor Dr.-Ing. B. J. Habibie
1993 R. W. Howard
1994 Baroness Platt of Writtle
1994 Lord Tombs of Brailes
1994 S. Gillibrand
1995 C. H. Kaman
1995 Professor J. L. Stollery
1995 R. W. R. McNulty
1996 P. M. Condit
1996 Sir Richard H. Evans
1997 J. Pierson
1997 N. Augustine
1997 J. Cunningham
1998 M. Flanagan
1998 R. Belyakov
1998 R. Yates
1998 S. Ajaz Ali
1999 A. Caporaletti
1999 D. Burrell
2000 N. Barber
2000 Professor Ing E. Vallerani
2000 R. Collette
2000 Sir Donald Spiers
2001 A. Welch OBE
2001 Dr B. Halse
2001 J. Bechat
2001 Sir Arthur Marshall OBE
2001 Richard Manson
2002 A Mulally
2003 P Ruffles
2003 Prof. Sir John Horlock
2003 J. Thomas
2004 Captain Eric Brown
2004 Alain Garcia
2005 Sir Michael Cobham
2006 General Charles E. Yeager
2006 Air Vice-Marshal Professor R.A. Mason
2008 Edward George Nicholas Paul Patrick Kent
2008 Professor Beric Skews
2008 Norman Barber
2008 Philip Murray Condit
2008 Ralph Robins
2008 Rene Collette
2008 Richard Harry Evans
2008 Roy McNulty
2009 William Kenneth Maciver CBE
2009 Gordon Page CBE
2012 Ing S Pancotti
2012 Professor M Gaster
2013 Professor K Ridgway CBE
2013 Professor R J Stalker
2014 C P Smith CBE
2014 Professor B Cheng
2014 J-P Herteman
2014 Colin Smith
2014 Jean-Paul Herteman
2014 John Balfour
2014 Keith Ridgway
2014 Michael Gaster
2014 Santino Pancotti
2015 Professor Sir Martin Sweeting OBE
2015 J-J Dordain
2015 Professor R K Agarwal
2016 P Fabre
2016 Sir Michael Marshall CBE
2016 Major T N Peake CMG
2016 Dr D W Richardson
2016 M J Ryan CBE
2016 Jean-Jacques Dordain
2016 Martin Sweeting
2016 Michael Ryan
2016 Pierre Fabre
2016 Ramesh Agarwal
2016 Timothy Peake
2017 Professor R Bor
2018 Major General Desmond Barker
2018 M Bryson CBE
2018 F R Donaldson
2018 Francis Donaldson
2018 Joseph Kittinger
2018 Marcus Bryson
2018 Colonel J W Kittinger Jr
2019 Dr G. Satheesh Reddy
2019 Asad Madni
2019 G Satheesh Reddy
2019 Alexander Smits
2019 Ashwani Gupta
2019 Fabio Nannoni
2020 Meyer Benzakein
2020 Tom Williams
2020 Trevor Birch
2021 Gwynne Shotwell
2021 Jim Bridenstine
2021 Johann-Dietrich Wörner
2021 John Tracy
2021 Paul Kaminski
2021 Paul Nielsen
2021 Robert Winn
2022 Colin Paynter
2022 Jonathan Cooper
2022 Tewolde Tewolde

Honorary Companions

1961 Sir John Toothill
1963 Lord Wilberforce
1965 L. A. Wingfield
1966 J. Davison
1973 Lord Elworthy
1975 H. Kremer
1975 Sir R. Verdon-Smith
1978 J. R. Stainton
1979 Lord Keith of Castleacre
1980 Sir Arthur Marshall
1982 Sir Douglas Lowe
1983 L. C. Hunting
1985 Lord King of Wartnaby
1985 F. A. A. Wootton
1986 G. Pattie
1987 Sir Norman Payne
1988 Sir Colin Marshall
1989 Air Chief Marshal Sir Peter Harding
1989 M. D. Bishop
1990 T. Mayer
1991 R. F. Baxter
1991 Sir Adrian Swire
1992 Dr T. A. Ryan
1993 Sir Richard Branson
1994 Professor C. J. Pennycuick
1995 Air Marshal M. Nur Khan
1996 Sir Neil Cossons
1997 A. J. Goldman
1997 R. D. Lapthorne
1998 P. Martin
1999 Sheikh Hamdan bin Mubarak Al Nahyan
2000 Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum
2002 J Travolta
2002 R Turnill
2003 Dr C C Kong
2008 Ahmed Bin Saeed Al Maktoum
2008 Michael David Bishop
2008 Neil Cossons
2008 Richard Charles Nicholas Branson
2010 Giovanni Bisignani
2014 Philip Jarrett
2015 David Bent
2016 Charles Clarke
2016 David Bent
2016 Elizabeth Hughes
2016 Roger Bone
2020 Idris Ben-Tahir
2020 Jeffrey Shane
2022 Michael Turner

Named Lectures

Henson & Stringfellow Lecture and Dinner

The annual Henson & Stringfellow Lecture and Dinner is hosted yearly by the Yeovil Branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society, held at Westland Leisure Complex, and is a key social and networking event of the Yeovil lecture season. It is a black tie event attracting over 200 guests drawn from all sectors of the aerospace community.

John Stringfellow created, alongside William Samuel Henson, the first powered flight aircraft, developed in Chard, Somerset, which flew unmanned in 1848, 63 years prior to brothers Wilbur & Orville Wrights' flight.

Wilbur & Orville Wright Named Lecture

The Wilbur & Orville Wright Named Lecture was established in 1911 to honour the Wright brothers, the successful and experienced mechanical engineers who completed the first successful controlled powered flight on 17 December 1903. The Wilbur & Orville Wright Lecture is the principal event in the Society’s year, given by distinguished members of the US and UK aerospace communities.

The 99th Lecture was given by Piers Sellers, astronaut, on 9 December 2010 at the Society's Headquarters in London.

The 100th Lecture was given by Suzanna Darcy-Henneman, Chief Pilot & Director of Training, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, on 8 December 2011.

The 101st Lecture was given by Tony Parasida, corporate vice president, The Boeing Company, on 20 December 2012.

The 102nd Lecture was given by Thomas Enders, CEO of EADS, on 12 December 2013.

The 103rd Lecture was given by Patrick M Dewar, executive vice president, Lockheed Martin International in December 2014.

The 104th Lecture was given by Nigel Whitehead, Group Managing Director – Programmes and Support, BAE Systems plc in December 2015.

The 105th Lecture was given by ACM Sir Stephen Hillier, Chief of the Air Staff, Royal Air Force on 6 December 2016.

The 106th Lecture was given by Martin Rolfe, chief executive officer, NATS on 5 December 2017.

The 107th Lecture was given by Leanne Caret, Vice President, The Boeing Company and President & CEO, Boeing Defense, Space & Security on 4 December 2018.

The 108th Lecture was given by David Mackay FRAeS, Chief Pilot, Virgin Galactic on 10 December 2019.

Amy Johnson Named Lecture

The Amy Johnson Named Lecture was inaugurated in 2011 by the Royal Aeronautical Society's Women in Aviation and Aerospace Committee to celebrate a century of women in flight and to honour Britain's most famous woman aviator. The Lecture is held on or close to 6 July every year to mark the date in 1929 when Amy Johnson was awarded her pilot’s licence. The Lecture is intended to tackle serious issues of interest to a wide audience, not just women. High-profile women from industry are asked to lecture on a topic that speaks of future challenges of interest to everyone.

Carolyn McCall, chief executive of EasyJet, delivered the Inaugural Lecture on 6 July 2011 at the Society's Headquarters in London.

The second Amy Johnson Named Lecture was delivered by Marion C. Blakey, president and chief executive of Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), on 5 July 2012.

The third Lecture was delivered by Gretchen Haskins, former Group Director of the Safety Regulation Group of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), on 8 July 2013.

In 2017, Katherine Bennett OBE FRAeS, Senior Vice President Public Affairs, Airbus gave the Amy Johnson Lecture and in 2018 Air Vice-Marshal Sue Gray, CB, OBE from the Royal Air Force gave the Amy Johnson Lecture in honour of the 100th anniversary of the RAF.

Sopwith Named Lecture

The Sopwith Lecture was established in 1990 to honour Sir Thomas Sopwith CBE, Hon FRAeS. In the years prior to World War I, Sopwith became England’s premier aviator and established the first authoritative test pilot school in the world. He also founded England’s first major flight school. Between 1912 and 1920 Sopwith’s Company produced over 16,000 aircraft of 60 types.

In 2017 the lecture was delivered by Tony Wood, chief operating officer of Meggitt PLC.

In 2018 the lecture was delivered by Group Captain Ian Townsend ADC MA RAF, Station Commander, RAF Marham.

In 2019 the lecture was delivered by Billie Flynn, F-35 Lightning II Test Pilot, Lockheed Martin.

In 2020 the lecture was delivered online by Dirk Hoke, CEO, Airbus Defence & Space.

In popular culture

The July 18th.,1975 edition of the society's Journal included the first use of the misattributed term, "Beam Me Up, Scotty", in a sentence, viz:"...in a sort of, 'Beam me up, Scotty', routine".

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