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Category: Lectures 2023/2024

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

11th July 2024 Josh Lectures, Lectures 2023/2024

Unfortunately, due to operational requirements, we regret to announce that we have to further delay this lecture. We apologise for[…]

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

12th June 2024 Jack Lectures, Lectures 2023/2024

Tuesday 18th June 2024 – 17:30 BST LIVE from the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection, Old Sarum The Boscombe Down Branch is delighted[…]

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

8th February 2024 Jack Lectures, Lectures 2023/2024

Tuesday 27th February 2024 – 17:30 GMT LIVE from MOD Boscombe Down In 2023, the world-renowned Empire Test Pilots’ School (ETPS) celebrated[…]

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30 January | LECTURE | The Westland Wasp HAS1 – Its Developments and Place in History by Dr Terry Martin

4th January 2024 Jack Lectures, Lectures 2023/2024

Tuesday 30th January 2024 – 17:30 GMT LIVE from MOD Boscombe Down For our first event of 2024, we are delighted to[…]

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Upcoming Events

  • 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.

  • Wed
    12
    Nov
    2025

    Cirencester Science and Technology Society Lecture: How Can AI Help Us Find Exploding Stars and Hungry Black Holes?

    19:30CS&TSoc

    How Can AI Help Us Find Exploding Stars and Hungry Black Holes? Speaker Dr Heloise Stevance, Schmidt A.I. Fellow University of Oxford. 7:30pm. All lectures are open to the public: Entry for full-time students is free, other visitors are asked to make a donation of £3.

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