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. 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 & 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. A prize celebrating younger authors (under 35) is given under the Young Persons’ Written Paper Prize award while the best paper to appear in the Journal of Aeronautical History is also awarded.
As ever, the nominations received for the 2023 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 2023 Silver Written Paper Prize
Awarded to: G. Padfield and L. Linghai
The potential impact of adverse aircraft-pilot couplings on the safety of tilt-rotor operations
The Aeronautical Journal, 126, (1304), October 2022, pp 1617–1647
Awarded to: J. Källström, R. Granlund and F. Heintz
Design of simulation-based pilot training systems using machine learning agents
The Aeronautical Journal, 126, (1300), June 2022, pp 907–931
Awarded to: C.P. Nasoulis, V.G. Gkoutzamanis and A.I. Kalfas
Multidisciplinary conceptual design for a hybrid-electric commuter aircraft
The Aeronautical Journal, 126, (1302), August 2022, pp 1242–1264
The 2023 Bronze Written Paper Prize
Awarded to: W. Johnson and C. Silva
NASA concept vehicles and the engineering of advanced air mobility aircraft
The Aeronautical Journal, 126, (1295), January 2022, pp 59–91
Awarded to: J.J. McGuirk
Propulsive jet aerodynamics and aeroacoustics
The Aeronautical Journal, 126, (1295), January 2022, pp 2–58
Awarded to: A. Oren and O. Sahin
The flight efficiency analysis on the Multi-Arrival Route Point Merge System
The Aeronautical Journal, 126, (1299), May 2022, pp 755–767
Awarded to: R.A. McDonald, B.J. German, T. Takahashi, C. Bil, W. Anemaat, A. Chaput and R. Vos and N. Harrison
Future aircraft concepts and design methods
The Aeronautical Journal, 126, (1295), January 2022, pp 92–124
The 2023 Young Persons’ Written Paper Prize
Awarded to: R. Niemiec, F. Gandhi and N. Kopyt
Relative rotor phasing for multicopter vibratory load minimisation
The Aeronautical Journal, 126, (1298), April 2022, pp 710–729
Awarded to: W.A. Memon, M.D. White, G.D. Padfield, N. Cameron and L. Lu
Helicopter Handling Qualities: A study in pilot control compensation
The Aeronautical Journal, 126, (1295), January 2022, pp 152–186
Journal of Aeronautical History Written Paper Prize
Awarded to: T. Pilmer and B. Read
The RAeS and the 1921 Cross-Channel Air Transport Crisis
June 2022
