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[email protected] London W1J 7BQ www.aerosociety.com United Kingdom PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 30 November 2020 ROYAL AERONAUTICAL SOCIETY AWARD WINNERS 2020 The Royal Aeronautical Society is proud to announce the 2020 winners of the global aerospace community’s most prestigious and long-standing awards honouring achievement and innovation. The virtual celebration, held 23-28 November, saw leaders in aviation, aerospace and space recognised for their significant contributions from space innovation to supporting humanitarian aid and addressing social barriers through flight. Several representatives of the space industry received awards, with Dr Alice Bunn and Dr Ashitey Trebi-Ollennu receiving Silver Award Medals for their major contributions. Dr Bunn for her role in developing and implementing UK Space Policy and Dr Trebi-Ollennu for his contribution to the successful development and delivery of the Instrument Deployment System on the InSight Mars Mission. It enabled the first robotic deployment by NASA of a seismometer on another planet. Harbour Air Group founder, Greg McDougall received a Bronze award for establishing North America’s first carbon-neutral airline in 2007, which also facilitated the world’s first commercial electric flight in 2019. The Sir Ralph Robins Medal for mid-career engineers demonstrating outstanding engineering leadership, was won by Dr Helen Webber, for her achievements in delivering a major engineering project, leadership of a significant team, delivering a major new project and creating commercial success. Dr Webber was responsible for delivering the High Temperature Heat Exchanger (HTX) design, build and test programme conditions.