Past RJ Mitchell lectures
For more information on the RJ Mitchell lectures, please go to the "RJ Mitchell lecture" page.
Year |
Subject |
Speaker |
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| 1954 | R J Mitchell, Aircraft Designer |
Mr J Smith Vickers Supermarine Ltd |
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| 1955 | Problems and Prospects in British Air Transport |
Mr P G Masefield Chief Executive BEA |
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| 1956 | The Aircraft Engine |
Mr A C Lovesey Rolls-Royce Ltd |
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| 1957 | Noise and Aircraft Structures |
Professor E J Richards Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Southampton |
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| 1958 | The Developments of Propulsion Systems for High Speed Flight |
Dr S J Hooker Technical Director, Rolls-Royce Ltd |
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| 1959 | Applied Rocket Power |
Mr M J Brennan Chief Engineer, Folland Aircraft Company |
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| 1960 | Vertical Take-off by Jet Lift |
Mr D Keith-Lucas Technical Director, Shorts Aircraft |
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| 1961 | Man Powered Aircraft |
Mr B S Shenstone Chief Engineer, BEA |
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| 1962 | The Strength of England |
Dr Barnes-Wallis Vickers-Armstrong Ltd |
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| 1963 | The Shape of Aeroplanes to Come |
Mr A N Clifton BAC, Weybridge |
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| 1964 | The Development of Civil Air Transport |
Mr B S Shenstone Chief Engineer, BEA |
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| 1965 | The Work of the Royal Aircraft Establishment |
Mr L F Nicholson Deputy Director, RAE, Farnborough |
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| 1966 | The Ideal Gas Turbine |
Mr S L Bragg Chief Research Engineer, Rolls-Royce Ltd |
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| 1967 | The Domain of the Convertible Rotor in Aircraft |
Mr R Hafner Westland Aircraft Company |
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| 1968 | Kinetic Heating of Aerospace Structures | Mr J Taylor | |
| 1969 | The Role of the Aircraft in Future Transport Systems |
Mr E E Marshall Technical Director, BAC (Ops) Ltd |
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| 1970 | Short Haul in the Long Term - Projections in Aircraft Development |
Mr D G Brown Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd |
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| 1971 | Astronautics after Apollo |
Mr A V Cleaver Divisional Director and General Manager, Rolls-Royce Rocket Department |
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| 1972 | An Airports System for UK Air Service |
Mr P G Masefield Chairman, BAA |
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| 1973 | MRCA - A Progress Report |
Squadron Leader R W Richardson Royal Air Force |
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| 1974 | Technical and Operational Aspects of Concorde |
M R Chevalier Director General, Aerospatiale. (Lecture presented by M. Lecomte) |
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| 1975 | Aero and Underwater Engineering |
Mr G S Henson The Plessey Company |
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| 1976 | Sea Harrier - the First of a New Wave |
Mr J W Fozard Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd. |
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| 1977 | History of British Flying Boats and the Final Stages |
Mr M J Brennan Saunders Roe Ltd |
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| 1978 | The Merlin for the Spitfire and Early Rolls Royce Jet Engines |
Sir Stanley Hooker Group Technical Director, Rolls-Royce Ltd |
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| 1980 | Airbus Industrie - Past, Present and Future |
Mr D G Brown Vice President, New Products, Airbus Industries |
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| 1981 | The Schneider Trophy - 50 Years On |
Mr D N James Aviation Journalist and Author |
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| 1983 | Fighter Aircraft Design |
Mr R D Boot British Aerospace, Military Aircraft Division, Warton |
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| 1985 | Europe's Future Launchers |
Mr H A Pfeffer European Space Agency |
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| 1986 | The Basic Design for the Prototype Spitfire |
Mr J Davies Supermarine Aviation Company Ltd |
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| 1987 | Europe's Future Fighter |
Mr J Vincent British Aerospace, Military Aircraft Division, Warton |
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| 1988 | Propulsion for Economic Space Transportation Systems |
Mr A Bond Reaction Engines Ltd |
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| 1989 | Beyond 2000 with Hawk and Goshawk |
Mr K G Hodson Director, Hawk Goshawk programmes, British Aerospace |
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| 1990 | Airbus Industrie - Today and Tomorrow |
Mr S G Corps Engineering Test Pilot, Airbus Industrie |
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| 1991 | Rolls-Royce in Perspective, Past, Present and Future |
Mr F Turner Director. Civil Engines, Rolls-Royce plc |
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| 1992 | G-Global - Britain's Role in World Air Transport |
Sir Colin Marshall Deputy Charmain, British Airways |
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| 1993 | B2 - the Stealth Bomber |
Mr Oliver C Boileau President and General Manager, Northrop B-2 Division |
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| 1994 | Space - Open to International Cooperation |
M. Jeam-Marie Luton Director General, European Space Agency |
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| 1995 | Five Decades of Progress in Aero Engines, Remembrance of the Past and Opportunities for the Future |
Brian H Rowe Chairman, GE Aircraft Engines |
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| 1996 | Technology Transfer from Mitchell to the Millenium |
Mr Stewart MilIer Director Engineering and Technology, Rolls-Royce plc |
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| 1997 | The Importance of Demonstrator Programmes to the Design of High Performance Military Aircraft |
Stuart Lewis Director of Engineering, British Aerospace, Military Aircraft |
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| 1998 | Changes in Commercial Aviation |
Nancy Bethel Executive Vice President, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group |
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| 1999 | Aspects of Technology in the Aircraft Industry |
Mr Tony Edwards Head of DESO (Defence Export Services Organisation), Ministry of Defence |
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| 2000 | The Space Shuttle in the 21st Century |
Marsha Ivins NASA Astronaut |
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| 2001 | The Ultimate System - Aircrew Saftey in the 21st Century |
Mr Brian A Miller Executive Vice President, Martin-Baker America Inc |
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| 2002 | International Air Transport after September 11th 2001 |
Mr Lorne Clark Vice President, Corporate Secretary & General Counsel, IATA |
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| 2003 | Celebrating 100 years of Powered Flight - The Next 100 years of Military Aviation |
Air Chief Marshall Sir Malcolm Pledger Chief of Defence Logistics, Ministry of Defence |
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| 2004 | Aeroacoustics |
Professor John Ffowcs Williams Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge |
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| 2005 | A380 and Beyond - an Airus Perspective |
Adam Brown, Vice President, Customer Affairs, Airbus |
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| 2006 | Flying on the Ground |
Pat Symonds Executive Director of Engineering, Renault F1 |
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| 2007 | Systems Engineering the Future |
Ian Stopps CBE, FRAeS Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UK |
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| 2008 | The Boeing Dreamliner and British Industry |
Sir Roger Bone President, Boeing UK |
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| 2009 | Lightning II - The F35 |
Graham Tomlinson Lead Test Pilot for the F-35 Lightning II STOVL |
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| 2010 | The Worlds Greenest Airline - The FlyBe story |
Jim French CBE Chairman and CEO FlyBe |
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| 2011 | Virgin Galactic - The Dream |
Will Whitehorn Chairman, Loewy Group and Former President, Virgin Galactic |
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| More details of this year's lecture on the lectures page. | |||