| AVRO LANCASHIRE MEETINGS |
All meetings of the Club are held in the Lightning Club on the BAE SYSTEMS site at Warton Near Blackpool. Meetings commence at 20:00 hours and are normally held on the last Thursday in the month. The programme of events for the year June 2009 to May 2010 is as follows
Non members are most welcome to come along to our meetings. A donation of £1 is welcomed - but why not consider joining the club?
| To find out what is happening in any particular month, click on the appropriate link below. |
| June | July | August | September | October | November |
| December | January | February | March | April | May |
Mike Mansell talked to us about the design principles for VSTOL Aircraft
Martin Powell and Ivor Tamplin from the Rossendale Aviation Society gave a joint presentation on British Piston Engine Transport Aircraft since WWII
Club member Stephen Halsted showed us photographs he took during his aviation trip to Japan
Dr Thurai Rahulan, lecturer in aeronautics at Salford University, gave us an academic's perspective of the Airbus A380
Ken Ellis, Editor of FlyPast Magazine, will be giving us a talk on aircraft preservation
Martin Powell from Rossendale Aviation Society showed us a selection of photographs from his trip to Australia and also photographs from the Alan Offer collection from Avro Heritage at Woodford.
No Meeting This Month.
Dave Ward from BAE Systems Heritage will be relating the Jaguar Story
Craig Eckersley, Senior Aerodynamicist at Warton, will be relating the story of
"English Electric's Cold War Aircraft: Canberra, Lightning and Beyond"
Our President, John Turner, will be coming along to talk to us
Paul Stone, Chief Test Pilot (Combat Aircraft) at Warton will, provisionally, be talking to us about
"Naval fighters - a perspective on handling and development"
Annual General Meeting.
