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The Royal Aeronautical Society was honoured when HRH Lt Gen Abdulrahman bin Fahad Al-Faisal, Commander Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) visited the Society’s London headquarters, No 4 Hamilton Place.  As part of his visit HRH LT Gen Fahad Al-Faisal presented a painting of an English Electric Lightning to Dr Mike Steeden, President of the Royal Aeronautical Society, in celebration of the strengthening bond between the Royal Saudi Air Force and the Society.

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The Royal Aeronautical Society’s (RAeS) annual conference concluded yesterday. The final presentations highlighted the contrast between the enormous potential for future wealth creation, exports and high-tech employment that could be generated in the UK aerospace sector with the warning that this could be put at risk if an incoming government ignored the need to adopt a more strategic investment agenda. The conference speakers, representing leading global businesses, academic institutions and aviation and defence organisations, provided a wide ranging series of presentations and Q&A sessions. The topics discussed stretched from the recent air travel crisis caused by volcanic ash to future prospects for safer and more environmentally friendly air traffic management, air finance, the expanding prospects for British involvement in space access and the changing needs and threats in defence.

The Proposed EC Regulation on Air Accident Investigation; the Criminalisation of Air Accidents and the “Just Culture”

Few would dispute that the main purpose of air accident investigation should be to discover the causes of the accident, with a view to avoiding accidents happening for similar reasons again in future.

Alan Edgar Bristow OBE, Croix de Guerre  and a Fellow of the RAeS is a legend in the international commercial rotorcraft community. April 2010 marks the first anniversary of his passing.

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At the first day of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s annual conference – Aerospace 2010:Beyond the Horizon, a team of speakers, issued a stark warning – “The UK aerospace industry needs more investment in research and development in order to survive”. 

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The Royal Aeronautical Society’s Annual Conference opens today. The two-day event brings together speakers from industry and academia taking a long view about prospects for aerospace and aviation. The conference will address the growing financial and strategic uncertainties affecting the sector. A key theme is the continuing importance of investing in new technology to meet environmental challenges in civil aviation and novel military requirements.

The Editor, Richard Gardner, interviews Air Chief Marshal Sir Stephen Dalton, KCB, ADC, BSc, FRAeS, CCMI, RAF, Chief of the Air Staff.

As the Royal Air Force enters its 92nd year as one of the best equipped and most operationally active air arms in the world, it is facing a future that is far from clear. By the end of the year it is expected that a new, and long overdue, Strategic Defence Review should provide a re-adjustment in policy to reflect changing circumstances but nobody is expecting defence funding, as a proportion of GDP, to be restored to the higher level that was in place when the last SDR set out its priorities.

British-born astronaut Dr Piers Sellers has arranged for the President’s travelling medal of office to accompany him into space during STS-132 currently scheduled to launch on 14 May for a 12-day mission to the International Space Station. This will be Space Shuttle Atlantis’s final flight. 

Flight Simulation Technology: Future Potential

40th Anniversary of the First RAeS International Flight Simulation Symposium

The Royal Aeronautical Society’s Flight Simulation Group Conferences are both well established and highly successful. In 2010, it will be 40 years since the first such international symposium. To mark that anniversary, a special Conference will be held to examine the latest flight simulation technology, consider trends, define the challenges and review future opportunities.

U-2 pilot Gary Powers was shot down over the Soviet Union on the 1st May 1960, provoking a major Cold War incident and ruining a summit meeting of the superpowers two weeks later.