Handbook 2019 2019 Handbook Royal Aeronautical Society SLS_RAeS_advert_Jan_2019_Layout 1 09/01/2019 10:43 Page 1 LANDING SYSTEMS n a r f a S / e r a o D e L l a c s a P © Safran Landing Systems is the world leader in the design, development, manufacture and support of aircraft landing and braking systems. The company supplies innovative landing gear solutions to 30 leading commercial, military, business and regional aircraft manufacturers. We support more than 27,000 aircraft in-service, making over 60,000 landings every day. The company employs over 7,000 staff worldwide across sites in Europe, North America and Asia, including a team of 1,200 people in Safran Landing Systems Gloucester at the company’s UK landing gear production and repair Cheltenham Road East facilities. 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SLS_RAeS_advert_Jan_2019_Layout 1 09/01/2019 10:43 Page 1 Royal Aeronautical Society / Handbook 2019 LANDING SYSTEMS Contents Section 1 4 Headquarters Royal Aeronautical Society President’s Introduction No.4 Hamilton Place Chief Executive’s Foreword London W1J 7BQ RAeS President United Kingdom President-Elect +44 (0)20 7670 4300 Raising Aspirations Through Aviation [email protected] www.aerosociety.com Section 2 Find us on facebook.com 14 Follow us on twitter.com/@aerosociety and @RAeSTimR Strategy Join us on LinkedIn Membership National Aerospace Library The Hub Trailblazer Apprenticeships: End Point Assessment Fowler Avenue Registration and Engineering Council Matters Farnborough Business Park Branches Hampshire GU14 7JP Diversity and Inclusion Working Group United Kingdom Divisions +44 (0)1252 701038 or 701060 Networking [email protected] Accredited Company Training Schemes and Apprenticeships Accredited Academic Programmes Editor and Designer Editor Knowledge Wayne J Davis The Specialist Groups n Publisher a r f Events Programme a Royal Aeronautical Society S / Publications and Communications 1 February 2019 e r a Policy and Public Affairs o Advertising D Promoting Aerospace Heritage and Continuous Learning e [email protected] L l a Outreach and Skills c s Corporate Partners a P Primary School Engagement [email protected] © Secondary School Engagement Ballantyne 2018 Membership & Subscriptions University and College Engagement For enquiries about existing memberships: External Partnerships and Events +44 (0)20 7670 4304 Safran Landing Systems is the world leader in the design, development, Print and Online Careers Resources [email protected] manufacture and support of aircraft landing and braking systems. Skills and Industry Engagement Events & Conferences The company supplies innovative landing gear solutions to 30 leading 2019 – The Year Ahead +44 (0)20 7670 4345 commercial, military, business and regional aircraft manufacturers. [email protected] We support more than 27,000 aircraft in-service, making over 60,000 Careers & Education landings every day. Section 3 36 +44 (0)20 7670 4326 [email protected] The company employs over 7,000 staff worldwide across sites in News & Publications Europe, North America and Asia, including a team of 1,200 people in Honours, Medals & Awards Safran Landing Systems +44 (0)20 7670 4352 RAeS Foundation Gloucester at the company’s UK landing gear production and repair Cheltenham Road East [email protected] facilities. 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Section 4 48 Media Enquiries +44 (0)20 7670 4362 +44 (0)7919 213 597 Corporate Partner Scheme [email protected] Corporate Partner Profiles No part of this material may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, or otherwise, including Cover photo: James Aitken of Ernesford Grange Community Academy, Coventry, works on the G-EGCA photocopying, without the explicit permission aircraft, part of the Schools Build-a-Plane Challenge. in writing from the Royal Aeronautical Society. 3 Royal Aeronautical Society / Handbook 2019 President’s Introduction I always find No.4 Hamilton Place to be welcoming ever more cost-effective ways of exploiting the and a great place to soak up the history of space domain. aviation, surrounded by memorabilia and portraits If the Society is to be as influential in 2019 portraying the people and the events telling the as it was in those early years, we need to ensure story of flight, and that of the Society. I commend that we are working in those areas which will be Almost any perusal of the history of the Society (published making a difference. Our learned output needs to of the likely on the RAeS website) to refresh your memory on cover the topics which are impacting on aerospace the influence and currency of the members and in the next few years. Our Specialist Groups outcomes activities of the Society down the years. and Conferences must be forward looking. Our of Brexit 2019 will undoubtedly be a year of huge Professional Standards must be seen as providing change for aviation and aerospace. Almost meaningful qualifications which are relevant and will have any of the likely outcomes of Brexit will have sought after by industry as part of developing and significant significant impact across all areas of our sector. measuring the capabilities of their workforce. Unmanned air vehicles will continue to have huge All of the above is an invitation to every single impact influence on the future shape, technology, and member to get involved with some aspect of across all regulation of aerospace. Artificial intelligence the Society. Every one of us has something to will pervade in every corner of our business, from contribute, young or old, and from whatever part areas of our design, validation, and manufacture through to of the broad church of aeronautics and space. This sector day-to-day operations and scheduling of flights. handbook will hopefully give you some ideas of New industrial processes, such as additive layer how you might join in, and I commend it to all our manufacturing combined with new materials, will staff and members. allow us to build using previously unachievable shapes and tolerances allowing radical designs. 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Collins_Brand-Ad_Print_1-page_Military_RoyalAeronautical.indd 1 12/11/18 3:45 PM Royal Aeronautical Society / Handbook 2019 Chief Executive’s Foreword There is little doubt that 2018 will go down in history as one of the most politically turbulent years in recent history. Brexit has absorbed much of the UK Government's attention and dominated both the Parliamentary agenda and the media’s interest in events. Consequently, the Society has been in demand for advice and perspectives on the implications. Yet 2018 also saw major progress in a number of significant aviation and aerospace endeavours. The welcome release of the Aerospace Sector Deal demonstrated the firm intent shared by government and industry to transform the sector by funding research and development in a number of novel technologies that will have a huge impact Chief Executive of the RAeS, Sir Brian Burridge, KCB, CBE, on the air travel experience of tomorrow. On the ADC, FCMI,