Royal Aeronautical Lecture 14th, March 2018 Peter Kosogorin

[johnhowe]

http://www.avrolancashire.co.uk/Meetings.htm#Oct As you can see our society have had and continue to have some interesting aviation related lectures.

Tarnish 29 Peter Kosogorin will be giving a talk on Flight Development at Samlesbury on Wednesday the 14th, March, 2018, there will be a buffet at 18.45pm followed by the lecture at 19.30pm at The Canberra Club entry will be by ticket only £5.00p

[johnhowe]

At our November meeting Anthony Gregory from BAE Systems will giving a talk on "Flying the last Grumman Cats." this will take place as usual in the downstairs lecture theatre at 8.0pm on Thursday the 26th, November 2015. there is no meeting in December.

My favourite Grumman Cat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYIQllyKQ6Q

Below some older Cats.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 9-CwcugMRf

[johnhowe]

It is with regret I report the death of Edward ( Ted ) Jane aged 85 years who died at Trinity Hospice Blackpool on Saturday the 14th, November, 2015. Ted had been a committee member for Avro Lancashire for over 20 years Ted supplied 100s of aviation related books for our monthly raffle draws.

Ted had been a planning engineer with English Electric in the household division for over 30 years. Ted did his National Service in the 1950s where he served in The RAF because of his educational background he was selected for Pilot Training flying Air speed Oxfords and other training aircraft.

Teds engineering background has been inherited by his son Ralph who is the principal of High Peak Classics, Triumph Repair(Stags) Restoration.

[johnhowe]

At our November meeting Anthony Gregory from BAE Systems will giving a talk on "Flying the last Grumman Cats." this will take place as usual in the downstairs lecture theatre at 8.0pm on Thursday the 26th, November 2015. there is no meeting in December.

My favourite Grumman Cat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYIQllyKQ6Q

Below some older Cats.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... 9-CwcugMRf

What a fantastic surprise we had last night Anthony Gregory turned out to be a Celebrated RAF Pilot.

We all thought that the talk was about Grumman Bobcats and Wildcats.

Anthony Gregory flew the Tornado F3 for a number of years. He was one of the four RAF Pilots led by Wg Cmd David Chan who set up Case White at Warton, flying

the Typhoon with 17 SQ . Anthony was in in charge of the Typhoon OCU and brought 3 & 11 Squadron into front line service.


After describing his RAF career he then moved onto the subject of his talk The F 14 Grumman Tomcat. Anthony flew with The Grimm Reapers on Nimitz class

Aircraft Carriers I was amazed to find that these Nuclear Carriers could plough through the ocean at up to 50 gnots. there were lots of anecdotes one about how the

Tomcat beat the F 15 Eagle to form part of the Iranian Air force when The Shah was in power.

Anthony now works for BAES at Warton on Typhoon overseas development

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsx_ouhx6BI The Grim Reaper in action..


This would be a superb lecture for our Preston Branch of The Royal Aeronautical Society.

[johnhowe]

Just a reminder for those members of Avro Lancashire who are also Preston Branch members of the Royal Aeronautical Society. The long awaited lecture on Unmanned Combat Air Systems Taranis takes place at The Canberra Club at Samlesbury on Wednesday the 9th, December, 2015 at 1930pm entry by
RAES membership card.http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/07 ... 87454.html

[johnhowe]

Just a reminder to members the" Taranis" Lecture is on tonight Wednesday 9th, December, 2015 at 19.30m at The Canberra Club BAE Systems at Salmesbury,

http://uk.businessinsider.com/british-t ... pon-2015-9

[AndrewBarclay]

We start 2016 with a talk by one of Warton's Test Pilots Peter Kosogarin, before joining Warton s Flight Ops, Peter flew The JSF in America being the 29th Test Pilot to fly the F35. this talk will be on Thursday the 28th January, 2016.

As usual our meetings start at 8.0pm on the last Thursday of the month in the BAE Systems Sports and Social Club (Lightning Club) Mill Lane Warton.

I and several members of Avro Lancashire are also members of The Royal Aeronautical Society Preston Branch which meets in the lecture theatre also at Warton.

I am an outside member I have spoken to Alan Matthews the Hon Secretary of RAES Warton and if any of Avro Lancashire members want to become outside members

of RAES they will be most welcomed the fee is £5.00p. The RAES lectures are normally held on a Wednesday night at 19.30pm as well as lectures there are visits

to other aircraft establishments including RAF bases.

Just to whet your appetite the speaker on the 16th, March 2016 is the newly appointed Director of Flight Operations at Warton Mark Bowman, his talk is entitled

Typhoon Test Flying.

Edit; If anybody wants to join RAES Preston Branch just come along to Warton on the 10th, February 2016 drive to the main entrance turn left into car park there is
always ample room and present yourself to one of the officials who will always be available in the main foyer.

[Mark]

Is John Howe ok?

[johnhowe]

Last Thursday 28th, January, 2016. Pete Kosogarin one of Warton's Test Pilots gave up some of his valuable time to give the society a talk on The new Striker 2 Helmet+.

Striker 2 is the next generation pilot's helmet developed by the Electronic Systems business in Rochester Kent. The Helmet builds on the Striker helmet mounted display which is now flown on Typhoon with new high definition night vision camera which replaces the need for separate night vision goggles.Striker 2 has undergone flight trials at Warton in 2015 with further trials taking place in 2016.

The great thing about our Warton Test Pilots after the initial lecture which usually lasts about an hour they stay on for the long awaited questions and answers which is always very interesting. Pete flew The F35 at Pax River and Jim Brittain our modeller had made a F35 for Pete with the RAF serial displayed. The presentation was performed by our Chairman Simon Eccleston which also included a bottle of Hermitage Crozier a Test Pilots Special.

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[johnhowe]

For our next meeting on Thursday the 26th, February, 2016 the speaker will be our president Neil Airey, Neil flies the local Air Ambulance and the title of his talk is " On a Wing and a Prayer". The Service starts as usual at 20.00 hours.

[johnhowe]

http://www.avrolancashire.co.uk/Year%202015.htm The Speaker at tonights meeting is Former Warton Test Pilot John Hurrell, John callsign was Tarnish 14 He was Warton's Chief Instructor on Hawk, having previously flown The Tornado on operational squadrons in Germany. Tonights lecture is on the Hawk.

Found these 2 Videos of T1 Hawk in Lake District with place names

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQcGayjVGag

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Orq6e9I ... 76.8994236

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zacrEWEqu8

[johnhowe]

Tonight's meeting of The Royal Aeronautical Society Preston branch held at Warton is being given by Drew Steel a former Squadron Leader in the RAF, Drew served mainly on The Nimrod Force where he was commissioned as an Air Electronic's Officer. Drew served with The Royal Marines as RAF Air Liason Officer during Operation Granby.

The Lecture takes place at 19.30pm on Wednesday the 11th, May, 2016 in the lecture theatre at Warton.