This relates to mainly Hampshire, its aviation activities, snippets from bronze age to space rockets, then BCS Hampshire Branch AGM.
Speaker
Stephen Robson
Agenda
7.00pm - Start of presentation
8.30pm - Estimated Finish of Hants Branch AGM
Synopsis
My computer history, Zx81, spectrum, Apple2, QL, Amstrad (luggable PC), HP 20Mb
• A few years ago
• Hengistbury Head,Hengist and Horsa,Bronze Age - cemetery
Iron age – ironstone nuggets, Open Cast mining 1800’s
• Bournemouth beginnings
1810 Lewis Tregonwell ‘discovered’ an area around Bourne Stream, Royal Bath Hotel
opened, population, 1851, 1861, utilities gas and water
• Aerial View Bournemouth
• Southbourne - the competitor, stourfield house
• Bournemouth celebrates – 1910, the centenary
• Southbourne Airfield and modern roads, International Aviation Meeting Guide
• The Bournemouth garage man, A big Event, Rolls – the end
• Rolls and Royce, Southbourne, Calshot, West Wittering
• Calshot – Rolls, Royce, Mitchell and a Lady
• Southampton – Spitfire, Air Ministry Spec F7.30,Aircraft reviewed 1934 Type 224 fails
Beverley Shenstone – the elliptical wing, PV Type 300 authorised F.37/34 Dec34 – Mitchell
steams through 1935, First flight 5th March 1936 K5054,First order 3rd June
• Poole - The Tizard mission, Aeronautical Research Council,USA still neutral
Tizard Mission, The magnetron, Proximity Fuse, Nuclear bomb, Jet Engine
• The Cannon Makers – Poole, ROF Poole – construction in 1940, help from Enfield,
Hispano cannons, produced, 12,500 made primarily for Spitfire, not elf and safety, Jean
Batten
• WW2 New Forest Airfields,
• The Mystery – Exbury, Lepe, Needs Oar, Requiem for a Wren – Nevil Shute
• The Solent – Nevil Norway 1919 and 1933, Sailing,The R100,
• Portsmouth Airspeed, the beginning, , Factory available and good runwaysght 26June 1934
• Christchurch – Envoy to Ambassador,
• Christchurch – Envoy to Ambassador via Envoy to Oxford, Mosquito, Horsa, Ambassador
• Hurn – Viscount to Concorde, RAF Hurn, 1944 BOAC operations, Vickers Armstrong
Varsity (if pigs could fly), Viscount, The great aviation merger
• Hurn - The BAC One-Eleven, 1970’s Concorde droop noses, 1983 Closure
• Hamble to Cowes, Hamble, Fairey, AV Roe, Armstrong Whitworth, Folland, AST (College
of Air Training)
• Hamble to Cowes, Isle of Wight, 1909 SE Saunders, WW1 Avro 504s Short 184s
1929 Saunders-Roe, WW2 Walrus and Otter,
• Cowes to Farnborough, 1952 – Princess,1958 - 65 Black Knight, 1969 – 71 Black Arrow
Islander, Radar
• Cowes to Farnborough, 1976 - RAE Pilot Protection, spinning tunnel (Bedford), and
Basingstoke
• Aviation Heritage, Friends of the New Forest Airfields, Bournemouth Aviation Museum,
Solent Sky, Calshot,Tangmere Aviation Museum
About the speakers
Squadron Leader Stephen Robson RAF (Retired)
After completing an engineering apprenticeship Stephen Robson served in the RAF from 1969 until 1988. He then worked for British Aerospace at Kingston, followed by over five years in a construction consultancy.
A return to aviation was to monitor jet engines for the BAe146 / Avro RJ regional jets and other business jets.
Now retired, he is active in aviation related organisations and is Chairman of the Charles Rolls Heritage Trust (Registered Charity 1174592), which educates people on the role of Charles Rolls and Britain's first International Aviation Meeting.
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