The Royal Aeronautical Society has been honouring outstanding achievers in the global aerospace industry since 1909 when Wilbur and Orville Wright came to London to receive the Society’s first Gold Medal. In the years that have followed, honouring world aerospace achievers has become a permanent tradition of the Society. Included among these awards are the written paper prizes.
The Royal Aeronautical Society Written Paper Prizes are awarded annually for the best papers published in The Aeronautical Journal by the Society during the previous calendar year. Awards can be conferred at Gold, Silver or Bronze level. A new prize for the best paper to appear in the Journal of Aeronautical History has recently been added. The Written Paper Prizes are presented following the approval of the Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society on the basis of recommendations from the RAeS Medals and Awards Committee, supported by the Editor-in-Chief of The Aeronautical Journal. The Society recognises the achievements, innovation and excellence of both individual and multiple authors.
The nominations received for the 2019 Awards were highly competitive, and on behalf of the RAeS Council, the Medals and Awards Committee are very pleased to announce the winners as:
The 2019 Gold Written Paper Prize
Awarded to J.M. Luckring
The discovery and prediction of vortex flow aerodynamics
The Aeronautical Journal, Volume 123, Issue 1264, June 2019, pp 729–804
The 2019 Silver Written Paper Prize
Awarded to P. Janhunen, P. Toivanen and K. Ruosteenoja
Steam balloon concept for lifting rockets to launch altitude
The Aeronautical Journal, Volume 123, Issue 1263, May 2019, pp 600–616
Awarded to J. A. Stockford, C. Lawson and Z. Liu
Benefit and performance impact analysis of using hydrogen fuel cell powered e-taxi system on A320 class airliner
The Aeronautical Journal, Volume 123, Issue 1261, March 2019, pp 378–397
The 2019 Bronze Written Paper Prize
Awarded to S. Zelinski and R. Windhorst
Modelling and simulating airport surface operations with gate conflicts
The Aeronautical Journal, Volume 123, Issue 1259, January 2019, pp 1–19
Awarded to B. Khandelwal, J. Cronly, I.S. Ahmed, C.J. Wijesinghe and C. Lewis
The effect of alternative fuels on gaseous and particulate matter emission performance in an APU
The Aeronautical Journal, Volume 123, Issue 1263, May 2019, pp 617–634
Awarded to H. Gesell, F. Wolters and M. Plohr
System analysis of turbo-electric and hybrid-electric propulsion systems on a regional aircraft
The Aeronautical Journal, Volume 123, Issue 1268, October 2019, pp 1602–1617
The 2019 Young Persons’ Written Paper Prize
Awarded to H. Gesell (lead author)
System analysis of turbo-electric and hybrid-electric propulsion systems on a regional aircraft
The Aeronautical Journal, Volume 123, Issue 1268, October 2019, pp 1602–1617
Awarded to G. Dussart (lead author)
Impact of spanwise non-uniform discrete gusts on civil aircraft loads
The Aeronautical Journal, Volume 123, Issue 1259, January 2019, pp 93–120
Journal of Aeronautical History Written Paper Prize
Awarded to J.A.D. Ackroyd
Cayley’s 1804 glider
The Journal of Aeronautical History, March 2019, https://www.aerosociety.com/news-expertise/journals-papers/journal-of-aeronautical-history/
