Past RJ Mitchell lectures

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Year	Subject		Speaker
1954	R J Mitchell, Aircraft Designer		Mr J Smith Vickers Supermarine Ltd
1955	Problems and Prospects in British Air Transport		Mr P G Masefield Chief Executive BEA
1956	The Aircraft Engine		Mr A C Lovesey Rolls-Royce Ltd
1957	Noise and Aircraft Structures		Professor E J Richards Professor of Aeronautical Engineering, University of Southampton
1958	The Developments of Propulsion Systems for High Speed Flight		Dr S J Hooker Technical Director, Rolls-Royce Ltd
1959	Applied Rocket Power		Mr M J Brennan Chief Engineer, Folland Aircraft Company
1960	Vertical Take-off by Jet Lift		Mr D Keith-Lucas Technical Director, Shorts Aircraft
1961	Man Powered Aircraft		Mr B S Shenstone Chief Engineer, BEA
1962	The Strength of England		Dr Barnes-Wallis Vickers-Armstrong Ltd
1963	The Shape of Aeroplanes to Come		Mr A N Clifton BAC, Weybridge
1964	The Development of Civil Air Transport		Mr B S Shenstone Chief Engineer, BEA
1965	The Work of the Royal Aircraft Establishment		Mr L F Nicholson Deputy Director, RAE, Farnborough
1966	The Ideal Gas Turbine		Mr S L Bragg Chief Research Engineer, Rolls-Royce Ltd
1967	The Domain of the Convertible Rotor in Aircraft		Mr R Hafner Westland Aircraft Company
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
1970	Short Haul in the Long Term - Projections in Aircraft Development		Mr D G Brown Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd
1971	Astronautics after Apollo		Mr A V Cleaver Divisional Director and General Manager, Rolls-Royce Rocket Department
1972	An Airports System for UK Air Service		Mr P G Masefield Chairman, BAA
1973	MRCA - A Progress Report		Squadron Leader R W Richardson Royal Air Force
1974	Technical and Operational Aspects of Concorde		M R Chevalier Director General, Aerospatiale. (Lecture presented by M. Lecomte)
1975	Aero and Underwater Engineering		Mr G S Henson The Plessey Company
1976	Sea Harrier - the First of a New Wave		Mr J W Fozard Hawker Siddeley Aviation Ltd.
1977	History of British Flying Boats and the Final Stages		Mr M J Brennan Saunders Roe Ltd
1978	The Merlin for the Spitfire and Early Rolls Royce Jet Engines		Sir Stanley Hooker Group Technical Director, Rolls-Royce Ltd
1979
1980	Airbus Industrie - Past, Present and Future		Mr D G Brown Vice President, New Products, Airbus Industries
1981	The Schneider Trophy - 50 Years On		Mr D N James Aviation Journalist and Author
1982
1983	Fighter Aircraft Design		Mr R D Boot British Aerospace, Military Aircraft Division, Warton
1984
1985	Europe's Future Launchers		Mr H A Pfeffer European Space Agency
1986	The Basic Design for the Prototype Spitfire		Mr J Davies Supermarine Aviation Company Ltd
1987	Europe's Future Fighter		Mr J Vincent British Aerospace, Military Aircraft Division, Warton
1988	Propulsion for Economic Space Transportation Systems		Mr A Bond Reaction Engines Ltd
1989	Beyond 2000 with Hawk and Goshawk		Mr K G Hodson Director, Hawk Goshawk programmes, British Aerospace
1990	Airbus Industrie - Today and Tomorrow		Mr S G Corps Engineering Test Pilot, Airbus Industrie
1991	Rolls-Royce in Perspective, Past, Present and Future		Mr F Turner Director. Civil Engines, Rolls-Royce plc
1992	G-Global - Britain's Role in World Air Transport		Sir Colin Marshall Deputy Charmain, British Airways
1993	B2 - the Stealth Bomber		Mr Oliver C Boileau President and General Manager, Northrop B-2 Division
1994	Space - Open to International Cooperation		M. Jeam-Marie Luton Director General, European Space Agency
1995	Five Decades of Progress in Aero Engines, Remembrance of the Past and Opportunities for the Future		Brian H Rowe Chairman, GE Aircraft Engines
1996	Technology Transfer from Mitchell to the Millenium		Mr Stewart MilIer Director Engineering and Technology, Rolls-Royce plc
1997	The Importance of Demonstrator Programmes to the Design of High Performance Military Aircraft		Stuart Lewis Director of Engineering, British Aerospace, Military Aircraft
1998	Changes in Commercial Aviation		Nancy Bethel Executive Vice President, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
1999	Aspects of Technology in the Aircraft Industry		Mr Tony Edwards Head of DESO (Defence Export Services Organisation), Ministry of Defence
2000	The Space Shuttle in the 21st Century		Marsha Ivins NASA Astronaut
2001	The Ultimate System - Aircrew Saftey in the 21st Century		Mr Brian A Miller Executive Vice President, Martin-Baker America Inc
2002	International Air Transport after September 11th 2001		Mr Lorne Clark Vice President, Corporate Secretary & General Counsel, IATA
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
2004	Aeroacoustics		Professor John Ffowcs Williams Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
2005	A380 and Beyond - an Airus Perspective		Adam Brown, Vice President, Customer Affairs, Airbus
2006	Flying on the Ground		Pat Symonds Executive Director of Engineering, Renault F1
2007	Systems Engineering the Future		Ian Stopps CBE, FRAeS Chief Executive, Lockheed Martin UK
2008	The Boeing Dreamliner and British Industry		Sir Roger Bone President, Boeing UK
2009	Lightning II - The F35		Graham Tomlinson Lead Test Pilot for the F-35 Lightning II STOVL
2010	The Worlds Greenest Airline - The FlyBe story		Jim French CBE Chairman and CEO FlyBe
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