Please find below details of all upcoming and previous lectures.
On-site lectures are typically held in the lecture theatre at MoD Boscombe Down, Salisbury, SP4 0JF, and begin at 17:15. Tea and coffee is usually served from 17:00.
Online lectures are held on Microsoft Teams Live and begin at 17:30. Each virtual event is open to join from 17:15.
Details about each lecture, including a synopsis and biography of the speaker, will be sent to all members of the RAeS Boscombe Down Branch (via the Branch mailing list) prior to the event. The information will also be available on our website and in the case of online lectures, the link to join the event will be included with the synopsis and biography.
Attendance continues to be free.
For more information, or to volunteer to deliver a lecture, please contact the Lecture Secretary lectures@BoscombeDownRAeS.org
Event Information:
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Tue11Nov202519:00Westminster Theatre, Farnborough College of Technology, Boundary Road, Farnborough, GU14 6SB.
RAeS Farnborough Lecture: The Extraordinary Life of Air Commodore Ernest L Howard-Williams MC
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.