PRESS RELEASEToulouse, December 9th, 2016

The Air and Space Academy (AAE) has awarded its medals and its GreatPrize for 2016, presented its new Board of Governors and its new Fellowsand Correspondents

This session is also the opportunity to present its new Board of Governors and new Fellows and Correspondents.This ceremony took place on November 25th at the Salle des Illustres at the Hôtel de Ville in Toulouse and met with a great success, over 250 people were present in this most prestigious setting.

Medals

Vermillion medal

Since its creation by André Turcat, the Air and Space Academy has every year awarded medals and prizes at its Solemn Session.

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The vermillion medal was awarded to the team responsible for the EGNOS system :- Didier FLAMENT, head of EGNOS and SBAS Division, project manager- EGNOS at the ESA navigation systems directorate,- Mariluz de MATEO, head of International affairs and SESAR

coordination programme, ENAIRE (Spain),- Jean-Marc PIEPLU, head of EGNOS operation programme, European

GNSS agency (GSA)

Medals of AAE- Prof. Christophe BAILLY, Ecole centrale de Lyon, for setting

up digital simulations that enable an analysis of aerodynamic noise of aircraft

- André BORSCHBERG, chief executive officer, co-founder and pilot of Solar Impulse, for his flight between Japan and Hawaii on Solar Impulse; this flight, lasting 117 hours 51 mins, constitutes the world record for solo flight without refuelling.

- the CONSTELLIUM team, for their realisation of the new aluminium alloy AIRWARE®, now present on new aeronautical programmes : Timothy WARNER, knowledge director and metallurgy Group manager, Research & Technology, Alireza ARBAB, project manager, Research & Technology and Bruno CHENAL, Constellium strategicinnovation director.

Great Prize

Awarded to Fabrice BRÉGIER, president and chief executive officer, Airbus, for his decisive role in the excellence of the A350 XWBprogramme, notably the delivery in late 2014, as promised, of the first plane in this new family of aircraft, a –900.The Academy wishes this award to honour all Airbus departments who contributed to many world firsts established in the course ofdeveloping this aircraft.

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New Board of GovernorsPhoto from right to left

President : Anne-Marie MAINGUY

Vice presidents :Jürgen KLENNER (on the screen)Thierry PRUNIERClaude ROCHEMichel WACHENHEIM

Treasurer : Michel VEDRENNE

General Secretary : Jean-Claude CHAUSSONNET

The new Fellows and CorrespondentsCorrespondents

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‐ Pierre ANDRIBET, director of the EUROCONTROL experimental centre‐ Danielle BENADON, honorary inspector general of the French administration

for sustainable development, former air transport director at DGAC‐ Ubaldo BORREANI, senior captain, instructor/examiner for A330 fleet,‐ Alitalia‐ Alain CASSIER, former director of A350-1000 programme, Airbus‐ Franck CHAPMAN, A350XWB project test pilot Airbus‐ Cathy CLERBAUX, director of research at CNRS, LATMOS Laboratory, Pierre

et Marie Curie University‐ Véronique DEHANT, head of operational directorate Frames of reference

and planetology at the Royal Observatory of Belgium, extraordinaryprofessor at the Catholic University of Leuwen (UCL)

Fellows

‐ Michel COURTOIS, consultant in space systems engineering, former director of ESTEC ESA‐ Éric DAUTRIAT, Research & Technology project leader at Safran, former executive director of Clean Sky in Brussels‐ Jean-Yves GROSSE, CEO “Aviation sans frontières”‐ Michel-Aimé HANCART, engineer, former technical director, Eurocopter‐ Keith HAYWARD, professor, aviation writer and consultant, Royal Aeronautical Society

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‐ Marcellin HODEIR, scientific project leader under the general curator and head of the historic service of the French army

‐ Walter KÖPPEL, former COO MT Aerospace, former CEO MT Aerospace Guyana

‐ Jean-Paul PALOMEROS, French air force general, former air force chief of staff, former allied supreme commander transformation of NATO

‐ Frédérique RÉMY, director of research at CNRS, head of the “Glaciology” group of the Midi-Pyrenees Observatory

‐ Wolfgang SCHRÖDER, director of the Aerodynamics Institute of the University of Aachen

‐ Marie-Catherine VILLATOUX, professor and doctor of history, French air force research centre (Flying school, Salon-de-Provence)

‐ Jean-Pierre DEVAUX, president of INOVSTRA, former strategy director at DGA‐ Wolfgang ENGLER, former engineer in chief of the A320 programme ‐ Axel FLAIG, senior vice president Research & Technology, Airbus SAS, Toulouse‐ Andrew Francis KNAPP, historian, emeritus professor at the University of Reading‐ Gérard LARUELLE, former director general ASTech, former vice-president Research at Airbus Defence & Space‐ Michel MANDL, lieutenant general aviator, former chief of staff of the Belgian air force, honorary president of “Vieilles Tiges”

Belgium‐ François MIGNARD, director of research at CNRS, astronomer at the Cote d’Azur Observatory‐ Marcello ONOFRI, professor of space propulsion, director of the Aerospace research centre of University of Rome La Sapienza‐ André PREUMONT, professor of mechanical and robotic engineering, Brussels Free University (ULB)‐ Owe WAGERMARK, air force brigadier general, special advisor to SAAB CEO‐ Paul Ludger WEISSENBERG, doctor of law, advisor to the executive director of the European Galileo/EGNOS agency in Prague,

councillor for Outer Space Affairs to the EU’s External Action Service

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