Past RJ Mitchell lectures

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Year	Subject	Speaker
2023	Engineering Prosperity: Why wouldn’t everyone want to be an engineer?	Alex Cresswell
2022	Making the Impossible Possible	Warren East, CBE
2021	Shooting for the Stars -The First Half Century of ESA Mission Operations	Dr Paolo Ferri
2020	BLADE - NATURAL LAMINAR FLOW FLIGHT TESTING	Dr Tom Gibson
2019	The Future's Bright, The Future's Autonomous	Dr Alvin Wilby
2018	Aerodynamics Design and Testing in Elite Sport and Product Development	Dr Rob Lewis OBE
2017	Rosetta and Beyond: ESA's Interplanetary Missions Operations	Dr Paolo Ferri
2016	The Bloodhound Project - A Global Engineering Adventure	Mark Chapman
2015	Exploring the Unknown	Professor Richard Holdaway, CBE, FREng
2014	Naval Aviation - The Future	Admiral Sir George Zambellas, KCB DSC ADC DL
2013	Powering the Future	Colin Smith CBE
2012	Challenges & Opportunities for Advanced Engineering in the Int’l Marketplace	Allan Cook CBE
2011	Virgin Galactic - The Dream	Will Whitehorn
2010	The Worlds Greenest Airline - The FlyBe story	Jim French CBE
2009	Lightning II - The F35	Graham Tomlinson
2008	The Boeing Dreamliner and British Industry	Sir Roger Bone
2007	Systems Engineering the Future	Ian Stopps CBE, FRAeS
2006	Flying on the Ground	Pat Symonds
2005	A380 and Beyond - an Airus Perspective	Adam Brown,
2004	Aeroacoustics	Professor John Ffowcs Williams
2003	Celebrating 100 years of Powered Flight - The Next 100 years of Military Aviation	Air Chief Marshall Sir Malcolm Pledger
2002	International Air Transport after September 11th 2001	Mr Lorne Clark
2001	The Ultimate System - Aircrew Safety in the 21st Century	Mr Brian A Miller
2000	The Space Shuttle in the 21st Century	Marsha Ivins
1999	Aspects of Technology in the Aircraft Industry	Mr Tony Edwards
1998	Changes in Commercial Aviation	Nancy Bethel
1997	The Importance of Demonstrator Programmes to the Design of High Performance Military Aircraft	Stuart Lewis
1996	Technology Transfer from Mitchell to the Millenium	Mr Stewart MilIer
1995	Five Decades of Progress in Aero Engines, Remembrance of the Past and Opportunities for the Future	Brian H Rowe
1994	Space - Open to International Cooperation	M. Jeam-Marie Luton
1993	B2 - the Stealth Bomber	Mr Oliver C Boileau
1992	G-Global - Britain's Role in World Air Transport	Sir Colin Marshall
1991	Rolls-Royce in Perspective, Past, Present and Future	Mr F Turner
1990	Airbus Industrie - Today and Tomorrow	Mr S G Corps
1989	Beyond 2000 with Hawk and Goshawk	Mr K G Hodson
1988	Propulsion for Economic Space Transportation Systems	Mr A Bond
1987	Europe's Future Fighter	Mr J Vincent
1986	The Basic Design for the Prototype Spitfire	Mr J Davies
1985	Europe's Future Launchers	Mr H A Pfeffer
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1983	Fighter Aircraft Design	Mr R D Boot
1982	-	-
1981	The Schneider Trophy - 50 Years On	Mr D N James
1980	Airbus Industrie - Past, Present and Future	Mr D G Brown
1979	-	-
1978	The Merlin for the Spitfire and Early Rolls Royce Jet Engines	Sir Stanley Hooker
1977	History of British Flying Boats and the Final Stages	Mr M J Brennan
1976	Sea Harrier - the First of a New Wave	Mr J W Fozard
1975	Aero and Underwater Engineering	Mr G S Henson
1974	Technical and Operational Aspects of Concorde	M R Chevalier
1973	MRCA - A Progress Report	Squadron Leader R W Richardson
1972	An Airports System for UK Air Service	Mr P G Masefield
1971	Astronautics after Apollo	Mr A V Cleaver
1970	Short Haul in the Long Term - Projections in Aircraft Development	Mr D G Brown
1969	The Role of the Aircraft in Future Transport Systems	Mr E E Marshall
1968	Kinetic Heating of Aerospace Structures	Mr J Taylor
1967	The Domain of the Convertible Rotor in Aircraft	Mr R Hafner
1966	The Ideal Gas Turbine	Mr S L Bragg
1965	The Work of the Royal Aircraft Establishment	Mr L F Nicholson
1964	The Development of Civil Air Transport	Mr B S Shenstone
1963	The Shape of Aeroplanes to Come	Mr A N Clifton
1962	The Strength of England	Dr Barnes-Wallis
1961	Man Powered Aircraft	Mr B S Shenstone
1960	Vertical Take-off by Jet Lift	Mr D Keith-Lucas
1959	Applied Rocket Power	Mr M J Brennan
1958	The Developments of Propulsion Systems for High Speed Flight	Dr S J Hooker
1957	Noise and Aircraft Structures	Professor E J Richards
1956	The Aircraft Engine	Mr A C Lovesey
1955	Problems and Prospects in British Air Transport	Mr P G Masefield
1954	R J Mitchell, Aircraft Designer	Mr J Smith