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Simon150
16th Oct 2009, 16:01
I wasn't sure where to ask this quick question. Apologies if it is in the wrong place.
I heard that John Farley recently did a lecture/talk at Sywell and was wondering anybody knows if it was a one-off or there are others planned?
thanks very much
John Farley
16th Oct 2009, 18:34
RAeS
18 November 2009
Branch Lecture
Title: The story of UK VSTOL
Date: Wednesday, 18th November 2009 19:00
Location: The lindop building, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
Double Zero
17th Oct 2009, 17:36
Hello John,
If it's not too daft a question ( as mine usually are ) is your November lecture open to fare-paying pleb's, or does one have to be a member - which of course I'm not ...?
DZ
Genghis the Engineer
17th Oct 2009, 18:23
RAeS branch lectures are invariably open to allcomers - non-members may be asked for a small contribution. Whether that's the case in Hatfield I've no idea but the branch details with a contact Email are here (http://www.hertsdirect.org/comdirectory/comvol/hobbi2y/engineandmod3/553423).
G
john_tullamarine
18th Oct 2009, 11:11
.. now what do we have to do to entice JF to have a holiday in Oz and present a series of lectures in his spare time to the various RAeS groups ?
now what do we have to do to entice JF to have a holiday in Oz......oooh!
First Class return airfare
5 star accom
Generous expenses
Flights in everything exciting you have got in Oz
.........he's really VERY reasonable:):)
John Farley
18th Oct 2009, 19:32
BOAC and john_tullamarine
Bless you both for your inputs. However following a couple of DVTs and breaking the odd ECG machine the docs have convinced me that while travelling in the UK is one thing, going overseas in an aeroplane is quite another. Indeed my poor daughter who is holding her 50th birthday party in Germany next month has had to come to terms with the fact that I shall not be joining her on the day.
Actually that is not the whole truth re Oz. My mother in law resides there and I know she employs agents at all the points of entry to assist her in getting her hands on me. So Oz is out. I would rather try and kick start a Spitfire.
JF
john_tullamarine
18th Oct 2009, 23:27
Looks like we shall have to organise a group trip to the Mother Country to coincide with the odd lecture here and there ....
D120A
19th Oct 2009, 06:50
Just make sure John's mother-in-law doesn't tag along with you, doing her famous impression of a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society...
Genghis the Engineer
20th Oct 2009, 15:52
Indeed my poor daughter who is holding her 50th birthday party in Germany next month has had to come to terms with the fact that I shall not be joining her on the day.
It won't get you to Oz, but I'm in Avignon at the moment - having got here in a very relaxed 6 hours sat on a train (and a very nice 3-course French lunch en-route). This (http://www.seat61.com/Germany.htm) reckons you'll get to Cologne in about 4 hours from London with one change in Brussels.
Just thought I'd mention it. I know we are all aviators, but just occasionally the train is a very pleasant and affordable way of getting around Europe (There are even still sleepers out there - London-Edinburgh, or Paris-Berlin for example.)
Maybe you can surprise your daughter yet!
(Better still, hold out for our Australian cousins paying up for a cruise ship! - don't disembark, you can lecture on board so should be safe from your Mother in Law's agents.)
G
Double Zero
20th Oct 2009, 21:45
John,
That idea from Ghengis' might not be so daft if you were bothered, though I think you'd have to choose your audience or all you'd get is a lot of " how do you hover inverted ? " style questions; with the right P.R. ( and right, preferably non- norwalk virus ridden ship ) it could be a good experience, hopefully pretty much just above sea level.
Another option, I have an Anderson 22 sailing boat, 3 have raced the North Atlantic, a person can't stand up inside though she is otherwise comfortable & well equipped, but she does give a degree of independence, and I wouldn't put on a cabaret every evening unless you really insisted...
DZ
john_tullamarine
20th Oct 2009, 23:40
In which case I could bring the RL24 in loose form and we could have a much more comfortable passage ?
turbine100
21st Oct 2009, 10:44
Are their any planned lectures around Goodwood or the Sussex area in the future?
John Farley
21st Oct 2009, 19:58
Thanks chaps. As it happens Adele and I looked at a variety of travel options but other diary entries got in the way (stuff that pays has to take priority even when you are retired!)
JF
PS Turbine - sorry not at the mo.
Guest 112233
22nd Oct 2009, 10:42
I saw an earlier ref to the lectures being open All ! - Can a member of the public attend ? - Although I'm only a Tecnician Engineer, I would be facinated to attend and listen - The value of lectures by pilots and engineers of this generation is becomming more valuable as time goes on.
CAT III
Genghis the Engineer
22nd Oct 2009, 11:05
I saw an earlier ref to the lectures being open All ! - Can a member of the public attend ? - Although I'm only a Tecnician Engineer, I would be facinated to attend and listen - The value of lectures by pilots and engineers of this generation is becomming more valuable as time goes on.
CAT III
Pretty much all RAeS lectures and events are open to everybody.
Where they're charged for (which is usually only the big conferences), non-members will pay a bit more than members, but that's the only difference. Branch lectures are almost always free - although most will ask nicely if you fancy throwing a quid in the pot towards refreshments.
On which subject, and scandalously suggesting that there might just be somebody as interesting as John on the subject of test flying - there's a dinner and lecture with Winkle Brown in Oxford on November 6th (http://www.raes.org.uk/event.asp?eventcode=000910&mastereventcode=Branch%20Lecture).
G
Double Zero
22nd Oct 2009, 18:07
At Dunsfold in the 1980's, the Test Pilots held de-briefings on the weeks' projects & trials, on Friday afternoons straight after work.
The thing which put a spoke in this great idea was that most people travelled in shared lift syndicates in those days, so unless everyone in the car ( and their spouses ) agreed, it was a problem.
By pure luck I'd just decided that sharing a lift was a major pain ( there were enough stories there to fill a book, including the diabetic driver who took us up the runway one foggy morning ! ) so I was able to attend lectures by several T'P's at a time, including J.F, Taylor Scott, Heinz Frick, etc; the sort of experience money just can't buy...
As the attendances were embarassingly small the plan ran out of steam, but a great idea.