International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences
The International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences or ICAS is a worldwide institution, established as an international forum for individual national aeronautical professional associations.History
It was formed on 29 January 1957 at a conference in the US. The first ICAS Congress was held in Spain in 1958. Frank Wattendorf, of AGARD, was the first Director.
A second meeting was held in Paris, with Hugh Latimer Dryden of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, and representatives from ONERA, the Royal Aeronautical Society, the WGL, the Association Française des Ingénieurs et Techniciens de l'Aéronautique, and the Aeronautical Research Institute of Sweden.Congress
It holds a biennial international congress in September. In 1986 it was held in London. In 2000 the congress was held in North Yorkshire. The 2018 Congress was held by Associação Brasileira de Engenharia e Ciências Mecânicas in Brazil. The 2020 congress will be held in Shanghai, China.Presidents
The secretariat of ICAS is at Deutsche Gesellschaft für Luft- und Raumfahrt in Bonn. It was first headquartered at the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the DLR from 1978, the RAeS in 1986, the Nederlandse Vereniging voor Luchtvaarttechniek from 1990, the AAAF from 1997, then Sweden from 2002, and Germany from January 2011.
