Diary
1 September
Jack Pritchard and the R.38 Airship Disaster, one hundred years on Wendy Pritchard, granddaughter of Major J E M Pritchard who was killed in the accident Online lecture
1 September
Darwinian aeroplanes – evolving to a future of sustainable aviation Dr Albert S J van Heerden, Cranfield University Singapore Branch and SIT-UoG online lecture
2 September
Project ACCEL – Progress to First Flight Andy Roberts, Flight Test Engineer, Rolls-Royce Online lecture
NASA’s Mars Perseverance Rover captures Ingenuity’s second flight on 22 April 2021. The Ingenuity Mars helicopter is the subject of the RAeS Cierva Lecture on 6 October. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS.7-9 September
47th European Rotorcraft Forum Online conference
7 September
Britain’s First Space Rocket – The Story of the Skylark Robin Brand, Proprietor, New Forest Electronics Boscombe Down Branch online lecture
8 September
Lockheed Martin’s role within delivering an orbital vertical launch from the Shetland Space Centre Brough Branch online lecture
9 September
Sustainability in Aerospace Seminar – The Sky Ahead IET online conference
9 September
The Rapidly Growing Space Industry in the Highlands David Oxley, Director of Strategic Projects, Highlands and Islands Enterprise Highland Branch online lecture
14 September
Some Significant Turning Point British Aircraft Dr Ron Smith Online lecture
14 September
Where’s my flying car? – The 100 years plus history of the flying car Gary Murden FRAeS, Retired – Education Co-ordinator, The Jet Age Museum Gloucester & Cheltenham Branch lecture
15 September
High altitude, long endurance UAVs – the challenges and applications of the eternal aircraft Paul Brooks, CEO, Prismatic Preston Branch online lecture
17 September
Next Generation Opportunities in Space Young Persons’ online conference
21-22 September
International Flight Crew Training Conference – Debriefing the Pandemic Online and at No.4 Hamilton Place conference
28 September
Engineering AI to produce autonomous capability in the air RAeS online seminar
4 October
The RAF and the Lessons of the First Gulf War Dr Sebastian Ritchie Online lecture
6 October
Cierva Lecture: Flying on Mars: Development of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Benjamin Pipenberg, Aeromechanical Engineer, Aerovironment Online named lecture
12 October
Previewing the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) John Thatcher CEng MRAeS. Project Manager, Mid-Infrared Instrument, Retired Loughborough Branch lecture Room U020, Brockington Building, Loughborough University
13 October
WW2 German Fighter Aircraft Piston Engines, a Counterpoint with British Strategy Calum E Douglas Brough Branch online lecture
13 October
Faster for the Future Libby Vallance-Bull, Head of Air Labs, Chief Technologist’s Office, BAE Systems – Air Preston Branch online lecture
14 October
The Orkney Sustainable Aviation Test Environment Professor Andrew Rae, University of the Highlands and Islands Highland Branch online lecture