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9 unusual facts about Royal Aeronautical Society


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In May 2006, Captain Eric Genotte, together with Armand Jacob, an Airbus experimental test pilot, gave a presentation to the Toulouse branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society titled “Landing an A300 Successfully Without Flight Controls”.

Aeronautical Society

Royal Aeronautical Society, known as the Aeronautical Society from 1866 to 1918

Airspeed Oxford

(He received the Fellowship of the Royal Aeronautical Society for his innovative fitting of a retractable undercarriage to the aircraft.)

Foyles

Christopher Foyle was also, from 1978 until 2008, the chairman and CEO of aviation companies Air Foyle & Air Foyle HeavyLift, was chairman and later Deputy President of the Air League, was a Trustee of the Foyle Foundation, and is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, a Liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and a Deputy Lord Lieutenant for Essex.

Giovanni Bisignani

Bisignani's memoir Shaking the Skies will be presented at the Royal Aeronautical Society on 20 May 2013 by the publisher.

Gossamer Condor

The aircraft, piloted by amateur cyclist and hang-glider pilot Bryan Allen, won the first Kremer prize on August 23, 1977 by completing a figure-eight course specified by the Royal Aeronautical Society, at Minter Field in Shafter, California.

John Argyris

In 1943, he joined the research department of the Royal Aeronautical Society in England.

Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.4

The prospective design, although yet to fly, was mentioned at a February 1914 meeting of the Royal Aeronautical Society by Brigadier General David Henderson, who said:"If anyone wants to know which country has the fastest aeroplane in the world-it is Great Britain".

West Wratting

Frost was president of the Aeronautical Society from 1908 to 1911, and a later version of his machine can be seen in the Shuttleworth Collection.


Andrei Tupolev

In recognition of his work, he was made an honorary member of Britain's Royal Aeronautical Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics.

Heneage Wheeler

In 1921, under the Air Ministry and Royal Aeronautical Society notices in Flight magazine there was noted the engagement of "Major Heneage Gibbes Wheeler, late R.A.F, of Bexhill-on-Sea" to a "Florence Hayes of St Louis, U.S.A" .

Human-powered aircraft

The Royal Aeronautical Society's "Man Powered Aircraft Group" was formed in 1959 by the members of the Man Powered Group of the College of Aeronautics at Cranfield when they were invited to join the Society.

John Fairey

Fairey was chairman of Museum of Army Flying's Development Trust, vice-president of the Historic Aircraft Association, a fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and a liveryman of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators.

Keith Mans

While at the Royal Aeronautical Society he was also Vice-Chairman of the Air League and Chairman of the Air Travel – “Greener by Design” Initiative.

Michael A. Fopp

He is a Warden of the Guild of Air Pilots and Air Navigators, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and the Museums Association, Council Member of The Air League and holds both Commercial and Instrument ratings for single engined aircraft.

William Kilpatrick Stewart

In 1956, Stewart was awarded the Sir Charles Wakefield Gold Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and in 1961 the Theodore C. Lyster award of the Aerospace Medical Association of the United States.


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Oswald Short

He had not sought personal renown from the establishment or the public, but was recognised in the aerospace industry; he was made an honorary fellow of the RAeS (Royal Aeronautical Society), president of the Guild of Aviation Artists, a fellow of the Zoological Society of London and of the Royal Astronomical Society.