Welcome to the lectures page

The RAeS Solent Branch holds lectures every month that anyone can attend at no charge. For more details on how to find where the lectures below are held, please see the lecture locations page.

The 2009/10 lecture programme has now ended.

The next lecture will be held in September.

 

 

Recent lectures

September 2009

“Human Factors: Stopping things going wrong in Air Traffic Management”
Branka Subotic & Jim Nixon, Human Factors, National Air Traffic Services (NATS)

October 2009

“Rolls-Royce Trent XWB: Design and development for Airbus XWB”
Ian Rainbow, Chief Design Engineer, Rolls-Royce

November 2009

“All Four Engines have failed”

January 2010

“Scientific Support of Military Aircraft in Operational Environnments”
Dr Richard Raistrick

February 2010

“Flight Testing in the Sunset - The Classic British Heavy Jets”
Mal Ridley, Deputy Director Aviation (Manned) QinetiQ

 March 2010

The 54th RJ Mitchell Lecture:

“The Worlds Greenest Airline - The FlyBe story”
Jim French CBE, Chairman and CEO FlyBe 

 April 2010

"Birdstrike Avoidance – Art or Science"

 John Allan
Chairman of the International Birstrike Committee

May 2010

Solent area Search and Rescue operations