2 July 2008
Peter Harvey, the recently appointed Chief Executive Officer of the LAA (formerly the PFA), has been awarded the SIlver Medal of the Royal Aero Club.
Peter has for a long time been part of the hang gliding and gliding worlds. He won two golds and a bronze with the British team in World and European Hang Gliding championships (as well as setting several records) before turning to gliding. In this discipline he has won the British Standard Class, Open Class and UK Overseas Gliding Championships. Internationally he won Gold Medals at the 2005 and 2007 Europeans and Bronze at the 2006 World Championships, and has been selected for the UK team for the 2008 Worlds.
He is also a coach the BGA Junior International teams and a powered pilot.
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