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  • Young Person's Lecture Competition Poster

    16 September | Joe Morrall Award 2025

    19th July 2025 Josh Joe Morrall, Lectures
  • POSTPONED | LECTURE | My Journey to Air Mobility by Matt Winwood

    11th July 2024 Josh Lectures, Lectures 2023/2024

Lectures

Young Person's Lecture Competition Poster

16 September | Joe Morrall Award 2025

19th July 2025 Josh

We’re delighted to announce the return of the RAeS Boscombe Down Branch’s Joe Morrall Lecture[…]

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POSTPONED | LECTURE | My Journey to Air Mobility by Matt Winwood

11th July 2024

18 June | LECTURE | Westland Aircraft and Rotorcraft – Secret Projects and Cutting Edge Technology by Jeremy Graham & Dr Ron Smith

12th June 2024

27 February | LECTURE | ETPS at 80 – Opportunities & Challenges by Col Rae

8th February 2024

News & Info

Norman Parker – An Appreciation from the RAeS Boscombe Down Branch

12th June 2024 Jack

Having come to A&AEE Boscombe Down with the Fairey Delta project in 1951, Norman helped[…]

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Norman Parker

10th May 2024 Jack

We are greatly saddened to learn that long-time Boscombe Down Branch committee member Norman Parker[…]

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16 April | Farnborough Branch Templer Lecture | Modern Aircrew Escape Systems

10th April 2024 Jack

Tuesday, 16th April 2024 at 7.30pmFarnborough College of Technology, Westminster Theatre The Farnborough Branch of[…]

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Joe Morrall Award 2024 Winner: Connor Atherton

10th April 2024 Jack

In mid-March, the Branch hosted its annual lecture competition, the Joe Morrall Award. The competition[…]

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Joe Morrall Award 2024 Announcement

6th December 2023 Josh

If you have any comments or questions, please contact BoscombeDown@aerosociety.com.

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Tim Dutton

29th November 2023 Jack

It is with great sadness that we share news of the recent passing of Tim[…]

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Recorded Video Lectures

Recorded Lecture: Experimental Test Pilot by Chris Taylor

8th August 2023 Jack

Originally presented on Tuesday 30th May 2023 to the RAeS Boscombe Down Branch. Chris Taylor[…]

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Recorded Lecture: Mitsubishi Ki-15 “Babs” – The World’s First High-Speed Strategic Reconnaissance Aircraft by Joe Picarella

13th January 2023

Recorded Lecture: Lion Air Flight JT610/Boeing 737 Max 8 – A Loss of Control in Flight Accident Case Study by Dr Mike Bromfield & Captain Nils Jamieson

18th May 2022

Recorded Lecture: Obtaining Operational Approvals of RPAS Operations utilised by NATO by Jamie Sayer

18th May 2022

Recorded Audio Lectures

Gp Capt Harry ‘Bruin’ Purvis Memorial Lecture by Norman Parker

15th May 2023 Jack

Recorded in 1970, Norman Parker delivers an excellent memorial lecture at Boscombe Down for Group[…]

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Technical Developments in Aeronautics by N E Rowe (Tizard Lecture 1970)

28th March 2023

40 Years of the Hawker Siddeley Hawk by Gordon McClymont

24th March 2021

Microlights by Richard Rawes

24th March 2021

The Joe Morrall Award

Young Person's Lecture Competition Poster

16 September | Joe Morrall Award 2025

19th July 2025 Josh

We’re delighted to announce the return of the RAeS Boscombe Down Branch’s Joe Morrall Lecture[…]

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Joe Morrall Award 2024 Winner: Connor Atherton

10th April 2024

Joe Morrall Award 2024 Announcement

6th December 2023

Joe Morrall Award 2023 Winner: Sara Ibrahim

8th August 2023

Joe Morrall Award 2023 *Application Deadline Extended*

20th February 2023

Upcoming Events

  • Thu
    06
    Nov
    2025

    Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) Wessex Area Lecture: Rolls Royce Small Modular Reactors.

    18:00Portland Building, Room P0.41 University of Portsmouth, St James Street, Portsmouth PO1 3AH

    Rolls Royce Small Modular Reactors by James Bellingall Rolls-Royce. James will be presenting on the Rolls-Royce Small Modular Reactor (SMR) design and the product's place in the civil nuclear market. The primary benefit of the SMRs is that they would help reduce our reliance on  non-sustainable energy sources, quickly. After the talk, there will be a Q&A session where attendees will be able to ask questions. 6 for 6:30pm. Portland Building, Room P0.41 University of Portsmouth, St James Street, Portsmouth PO1 3AH. Non-members are welcome to attend our events but you will need to create a non-member account to do this; it’s free and will only take a few minutes. To do this, please visit http://www.imeche.org/my-account/Register

  • Thu
    06
    Nov
    2025

    RAeS Heathrow Branch: Charles Abell Named Lecture

    18:15British Airways HQ Waterside (and Teams).

    The Royal Aeronautical Society Heathrow Branch is pleased to announce and cordially invite you to join us at our upcoming Charles Abell Named Lecture, to be held on Thursday, 06 November 2025, at 18:15 GMT.

    In this RAeS Heathrow Branch lecture, we are delighted to welcome Martin Maltby FRAeS, Chief Engineer, Rolls-Royce (Ret'd), to share his insight on ‘Investigating the Unthinkable: Total fuel exhaustion in Mid-Atlantic’. In brief, the speaker will discuss the root cause, the pilots' actions, and the subsequent formal inquiry into Azores Glider. The audience are invited to consider how they would have responded to the evolving situation.

    The Branch is delighted to hold this event in a hybrid format, with the in-person session at British Airways HQ Waterside, and the virtual session via Microsoft Teams.

    For further event details, please refer to the lecture flyer attached or the event's site here. To register, please visit http://tiny.cc/RAeSLHR, by selecting the in-person or virtual session. If your organisation blocks external URL shortener, please visit aerosociety.com/Heathrow, and browse under ‘Upcoming Events’. Alternatively, you may contact us at Heathrow@aerosociety.com if you encounter any issues during registration.

    *** IMPORTANT NOTICE ***

    For security and/or administration purposes, advance registration is required for all RAeS Heathrow Branch events. For in-person attendees, please note that British Airways Waterside is a secure venue, and you must present a photographic ID to be checked on arrival.

  • Tue
    11
    Nov
    2025

    RAeS Farnborough Lecture: The Extraordinary Life of Air Commodore Ernest L Howard-Williams MC

    19:00Westminster Theatre, Farnborough College of Technology, Boundary Road, Farnborough, GU14 6SB.

    The Extraordinary Life of Air Commodore Ernest L Howard-Williams MC by Conductor, Author and family member Anthony Inglis Howard-Williams.

    This presentation tells the story of Anthony Inglis Howard-William’s grandfather, who besides falling out of his aeroplane at 500ft in 1916 without a parachute, and surviving, details his life from winning the MC for flying over The Somme, Ypres and Passchendaele in WWI, through inter-war engineering courses at 3 universities; spells at the Royal Arsenal where he invented the cylindrical bomb without fins and secondment to the staff college at Andover, whilst all the while trying to persuade the air ministry to adopt his ideas of University Air Squadrons, dive bombers and arguing for the death of the battleship. He was the first person to fly east to west (and back again) across Africa, and during WWII had appointments as number two to Dowding at Bentley Priory in 1939, with subsequent postings at Halton (where Anthony was born) and Blackpool. There are scandals, murders and intrigue in this story, as he battled to try and persuade others of his vision of aviation and war.

    Anthony Inglis is one of the busiest and most eclectic of international classical music Grammy-nominated conductors. He has led more than 250 performances at the Royal Albert Hall, conducted royal concerts, is the Music Director of the London Concert Orchestra and for the Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins. He is the author of A Family of Aviators at War: The Somme, Dunkirk, Battle of Britain, Night-Fighter Mosquitoes, Chinooks: The Story of Nine RAF Pilots From One Family.

    7pm for 7:30pm.

    Westminster Theatre, Farnborough College of Technology, Boundary Road, Farnborough, GU14 6SB. The Westminster Theatre is in the UCF Study Centre building close to the main entrance in Boundary Road.

    £3 donation invited from non-members. RAeS members, Branch Friends, Students: free.

    Contact jo.davies@raes-volunteer.org.

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