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AT a meeting of the Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society held on April 21, the following awards were made: Silver Medal of the Society to Mr. B. N. Wallis, for his work on geodetic construction; Simms Oold Medal to Mr. W. S. Farren, for his inventions of new methods of the measurement of drag and his designs of scientific apparatus for aeronautical research; Taylor Oold Medal to Mr. E. F. Belf, for his paper read before the Society on the compressed air tunnel; Sir Charles Wakefleld Gold Medal to Mr. C. R. Fairey, for his work on the development of flaps; Busk Memorial Prize to Mr. B. P. Alston, for his paper read before the Society on wing flaps and other devices as aids to landing. At a meeting of the Amulree Committee held on April 27, the following awards were made on the recommendation of the Council of the Royal Aeronautical Society: British Oold Medal for Aeronautics to Dr. Hugo Eckener for his technical achievements in lighter-than-air craft; British Silver Medal for Aeronautics to Mr. A. J. Rowledge, for his scientific achievements in the development of aircraft engines.
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Awards for Aeronautical Research. Nature 137, 775 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137775b0
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