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Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th Nov 2017, 07:49
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

The new exhibition at Brooklands Museum is now...

The new exhibition at Brooklands Museum is now open.

I took the opportunity last Tuesday, 28th November to visit "The Factory" and "The Flight Shed".

A Sopwith Camel replica, Hawker Fury...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
20th Oct 2017, 16:22
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

Extension to the Tudor Library in Tudor Drive...

Extension to the Tudor Library in Tudor Drive Kingston. Opened this afternoon, Friday 20th September 2017 by the MD of Berkeley Homes, Tony Pidgley.

A planning gain from Berkeley Homes following...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Oct 2017, 12:58
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

Three additions to the above. Kieron.

Three additions to the above.

Kieron.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
8th Oct 2017, 12:49
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

A visit by members of The Hawker Association to...

A visit by members of The Hawker Association to North Weald on the 21st September 2016.

One Sea Fury, one "Baghdad Fury" and a Hawker Hunter.

Kieron.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Oct 2017, 09:29
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

On Wednesday 27th September 2017, 20 members of...

On Wednesday 27th September 2017, 20 members of the Hawker Association spent an enjoyable day out at RNAS Yeovilton.

We encountered two Sea Harriers, the majority of which were built at the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
19th Sep 2017, 20:47
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

Click the link below for more photographs and...

Click the link below for more photographs and comments.

A big thank you to all who attended and the "Ppruners" who viewed this thread.

Kieron.


The Hawker Association...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Sep 2017, 21:01
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

More from the Hawker YMCA 10th September 2017. ...

More from the Hawker YMCA 10th September 2017.

Kieron.
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
10th Sep 2017, 18:38
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

A selection of photographs taken at the Hawker...

A selection of photographs taken at the Hawker YMCA this morning,10th September 2017.

Kieron,
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
7th Sep 2017, 10:28
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

Ode To The HS.1182 It was fortunate, in this...

Ode To The HS.1182

It was fortunate, in this anniversary year for the Hawk, that a remarkable piece of long-lost aviation literature has been discovered. With some difficulty your Editor peeled...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
4th Sep 2017, 21:07
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

'HAWKER'; A GREAT PLACE TO WORK. That was...

'HAWKER'; A GREAT PLACE TO WORK.


That was the title of John Glasscock's informal talk to over sixty Members on March 12th. Sitting at a table, because he had "problems with the undercarriage",...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
2nd Sep 2017, 07:08
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

Machined Wing Skin Pioneering Bryan...

Machined Wing Skin Pioneering


Bryan Austin remembers the introduction of a new production technique at Richmond Road…

As a young machine tool setter in the machine shop in the early 1960s I...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
30th Aug 2017, 20:17
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

A FEW WORDS FROM A SALESMAN "For my floor...

A FEW WORDS FROM A SALESMAN

"For my floor show this afternoon I have put together a little four part pastiche which will take us down memory lane ... starting way back in 1957 when I retired from...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
27th Aug 2017, 08:03
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

An Amazing Move David Hassard’s piece on the...

An Amazing Move

David Hassard’s piece on the Kingston Aviation centenary brought back memories to Bryan Austin…

In 1960 I was based in the old factory at Canbury Park Road, Kingston. On...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
23rd Aug 2017, 21:43
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

The Wit And Wisdom Of Sydney Camm ...

The Wit And Wisdom Of Sydney Camm

Contributed by Ralph Hooper. Can any readers add to this compilation? The only thing he ever said to me, when I was a trainee at a drawing board with Charlie Cray...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
21st Aug 2017, 19:42
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

A Brush with the LDA-01 Richard Cripps...

A Brush with the LDA-01

Richard Cripps remembers David Lockspeiser’s aeroplane…

The following article is short on hard facts such as dates and names. The incident described did not seem at the...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
16th Aug 2017, 20:31
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

Colin Flint, retired Head of Ground Test, recalls...

Colin Flint, retired Head of Ground Test, recalls his time with the Mithraeum test frame

With the closure of Langley in the late ’50s there was a requirement either to move the Abbey test frame to...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
11th Aug 2017, 21:03
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

Making Them Right - An Engineer at Hawkers, 1936...

Making Them Right - An Engineer at Hawkers, 1936 - 1976

This talk covering the life of Charles Plantin was given by his son-in-law, David Hassard, on 14th October to a large audience which...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
5th Aug 2017, 22:49
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

Hawkers Build for the Future at Kingston ...

Hawkers Build for the Future at Kingston

This is the title of an article published in the Surrey Comet of March 7th, 1959, a cutting of which was recently passed to the Editor for the Brooklands...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
1st Aug 2017, 22:21
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

When Winston Churchill became Minster of...

When Winston Churchill became Minster of Munitions in 1917 he was faced with a demand from the frontline in France to almost triple the rate of production of new aeroplanes.

With existing...
Forum: Aviation History and Nostalgia
29th Jul 2017, 11:23
Replies: 23
Views: 13,409
Posted By Kieron Kirk

Kingston Aviation Centenary Project-The Great Richmond Road Factory.Ham.

It is 100 years since the National Aircraft Factory No.2 was built alongside the Richmond Road at Ham in Surrey, and 25 years since the factory was closed by Bae.

The link below provides details...
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