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ON April 26, Mr. H. E. Wimperis delivered his presidential address to the Royal Aeronautical Society on the subject of the natural limits to human flight, and the following medals and awards were presented: Society's Gold Medal to the late Senor J. de la Cierva, for his work on the development of the autogiro; Society's Silver Medal to F. W. Meredith, for his work on the automatic pilot; Society's Silver Medal to P. A. Cooke, for his work on the automatic pilot; British Gold Medal for Aeronautics to A. Gouge, for his achievement in the development of flying boats; Simms Gold Medal to Dr. H. J. Gough, for his paper “New Light on the Strength of Materials afforded by Modern Physics”; Simms Gold Medal to W. A. Wood, for his paper on “New Light on the Strength of Materials afforded by Modern Physics”; Taylor Gold Medal to Dr. G. P. Douglas, for his paper on “Cooling Problems with particular Reference to the work of the 24 ft. R.A.E. Tunnel”; Edward Busk Memorial Prize to Mr. G. H. Dowty, for his paper on “Retractable Undercarriages”; Pilcher Memorial Prize to H. Leaderman, for his paper on “The Fundamentals of Boundary Layer Theory with Some Applications to Aircraft”.
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Royal Aeronautical Society Awards. Nature 139, 751–752 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/139751f0
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