List of RAeS medal recipients explained

This is a list of recipients of medals awarded by the Royal Aeronautical Society.

Individual medal recipients

Gold Medal recipients

• 1909 - Wilbur and Orville Wright
• 1910 - Octave Chanute
• 1945 - Air Cdre Frank Whittle
• 1949 - Sydney Camm^[1]
• 1950 - Sir Geoffrey de Havilland
• 1952 - Theodore von Kármán
• 1955 - Ernest Hives, 1st Baron Hives - "for his outstanding work in the field of aircraft propulsion.".^[2]
• 1957 - Robert Lickley
• 1958 - Stuart Davies
• 1959 - Marcel Dassault
• 1960 - Sir Frederick Handley Page
• 1964 - Ronald Eric Bishop
• 1967 - Stanley Hooker
• 1977 - Sir Frederick Page^[3]
• 1977 - George Lee^[4]
• 1983 - Geoffrey Lilley
• 1986 - Ralph Hooper
• 2009 - Henry McDonald
• 2012 - Elon Musk
• 2014 - Dr Gordon McConnell^[5]
• 2015 - Professor Richard J Parker^[6]

Silver Medal recipients

Winners of the annual Silver Medal of the Royal Aeronautical Society

• 1962 - Dietrich Küchemann
• 1967 - Charles Joy
• 1971 - John Argyris^[7]
• 1991 - Roy Dommett
• 2005 - Professor David Southwood^[8]
• 2010 - Frank De Winne
• 2011 - Professor Terence Jones^[9]
• 2012 - Robert Smith ^[10]
• 2013 - Professor John Denton^[11]
• 2014 - Mr Frank Ogilvie^[12]
• 2014 - Mr Robert Saia^[13]
• 2015 - G. Satheesh Reddy^{[14] [15]}

Team medal recipients

Team Gold Medalists

• 2004 - SpaceShipOne
• 2005 - Airbus A380 Wing Design Team
• 2007 - BERP rotor development team
• 2008 - Trent 900 Engineering Team
• 2009 - Vectored-thrust Aircraft Advanced Control (VAAC) Team
• 2009 - Jules Verne ATV Operations Team
• 2014 - Project Zero Team ^[16]
• 2015 - Rosetta Mission Team ^[17]
• 2019 - Chang'e 4 Lunar Landing Mission Team^{[18] [19]}

Team Silver Medalists

• 2005 - Huygens project team
• 2008 - Cranfield Aerospace X-48B UAV
• 2010 - Mantis UAV project team
• 2011 - HYLAS-1 team
• 2012 - CAMPS development team
• 2013 - ASTRAEA Team
• 2014 - Team Taranis^[20]
• 2015 - The Beagle 2 Mars Mission Engineering Team ^[21]

Notes and References

1. Medallist list published here.
2. http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1955/1955%20-%200607.html Flight 13 May 1955 p607
3. https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbm.2006.0017
4. Web site: Flight International Archive. 10 December 1977. 9 June 2012.
5. http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Medals%20and%20Awards/2014_RAeS_Medals_and_Awards_Winners.pdf 2014 RAeS Medals and Awards Winners
6. http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Medals%20and%20Awards/2015_WOW_Medals_and_Awards_brochure_Web.pdf 2015 RAeS Medals and Awards Winners
7. Medallist list published here.
8. Medallist list published here.
9. http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Medals%20and%20Awards/2011%20Medals%20and%20Awards%20brochure%20Final.pdf 2011 RAeS Medals and Awards Winners
10. http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Medals%20and%20Awards/2012_Medals_and_Awards_Brochure.pdf 2012 RAeS Medals and Awards Winners
11. http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/2013%20WOW%20Medals%20and%20Awards%20brochure%20v4%20%283%29.pdf 2013 RAeS Medals and Awards Winners
12. http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Medals%20and%20Awards/2014_RAeS_Medals_and_Awards_Winners.pdf 2014 RAeS Medals and Awards Winners
13. http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Medals%20and%20Awards/2014_RAeS_Medals_and_Awards_Winners.pdf 2014 RAeS Medals and Awards Winners
14. Web site: Prestigious Award for Defence Scientist G Satheesh Reddy. 12 September 2015. NDTV. 29 January 2016.
15. Web site: REeS Silver Medal for Satheesh Reddy. https://web.archive.org/web/20151119214528/http://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/REeS-Silver-Medal-for-Satheesh-Reddy/2015/09/13/article3025050.ece. dead. 19 November 2015. The New Indian Express. 29 January 2016.
16. http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Medals%20and%20Awards/2014_RAeS_Medals_and_Awards_Winners.pdf 2014 RAeS Medals and Awards Winners
17. http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Medals%20and%20Awards/2015_WOW_Medals_and_Awards_brochure_Web.pdf 2015 RAeS Medals and Awards Winners
18. Web site: Plane Speaking with Dr Wu Weiren . 2022-08-16 . Royal Aeronautical Society.
19. Web site: 中時新聞網 . 153年首次 嫦娥四號獲英皇家航空學會金獎 - 兩岸 . 2022-08-16 . 中時新聞網 . zh-Hant-TW.
20. http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Medals%20and%20Awards/2014_RAeS_Medals_and_Awards_Winners.pdf 2014 RAeS Medals and Awards Winners
21. http://aerosociety.com/Assets/Docs/Medals%20and%20Awards/2015_WOW_Medals_and_Awards_brochure_Web.pdf 2015 RAeS Medals and Awards Winners