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In addition to our monthly meetings, each with an interesting talk, we offer many different events, outings and holidays that you might like to come along on. Click on the event title to see the event detail.
Monthly Meeting – Britain’s Amazing Aircraft Industry
14:00-14:30 – Refreshments – 14:30-14:45 – Announcements – 14:45-16:00 – Talk
22 April @ 14:00 – 16:00
Britain once had an enormous and arguably the most advanced aircraft industry in the world. How did we reach there and why are we now so weak, or are we? Greed, Bad Management, Corruption and Politics all played a part.
The talk includes both the civil and military side of aviation.
The talk will be given by Andy Richardson, who has been involved in Aviation throughout his adult life. Starting with an 18-year flying career in The Royal Air Force which included crewing the nuclear armed Avro Vulcan during the cold war. In 1980 he took early retirement to pursue a second career focusing on International Business Development within the Aerospace Industry.
Initially working with British Aerospace in the UK. Later, a break enabled him to join the American giants McDonnell Douglas and then the Boeing Company following their merger. His last Boeing appointment was as a European Marketing Director within the Military Aircraft Division. Post retirement, he continued to work with them and other companies as an Aerospace consultant into his early 70s.
He now travels the country delivering a range of interesting talks – all of course with an Aviation theme!