The Stevenage Branch presents a lecture entitled ‘The NASA Space Shuttle’, delivered by Dr David Baker, at the Lunchpad, EADS Astrium, Gunnels Wood Road, Stevenage, 1730 for 1800 on the 3rd March 2011
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Branch website: https://sites.google.com/site/raesstevenage/
Recent legislative changes introduced by the coalition government have had a major impact on the way pensions will operate in the future. We will look at these changes in greater detail and their potential impact when planning for retirement. Of these changes, we have welcomed the following:
However, it is clear that the reduction in the Annual Allowance and Lifetime Allowance will mean that a number of people will have to redirect their contributions to non-pension investments. Higher earners in particular may need to consider new ways to plan for retirement.
These announced changes in tax policy have created a need for options beyond traditional pensions. In view of these changes, AAG Corporate Services are hosting a presentation to help explain how the changes may affect investors.
Ian Price – St. James’s Place – with 30 years experience in the Pensions industry, Ian regularly comments on and writes for the Industry press on all pension issues and will discuss how recent legislative changes will affect pensions. He has spent four years on the Pensions & Savings Committee of the ABI.
Octopus Investments - an award-winning, market-leading investment company will be discussing a range of solutions for those who wish to look at alternative investments. These include Venture Capital Trusts (VCT) and Enterprise Investment Schemes (EIS) amongst others.
We would like to invite you to what will be an interesting and insightful discussion, with the ultimate aim of helping you plan for a comfortable retirement.
The Cranwell Branch presents a lecture entitled ‘RAF Manned Space Programme 1953 -1960′, delivered by John Hazelwood at RAF College Cranwell on 7th March 2011.
Branch contact: Nick Deepan [email protected]
This Lecture will focus on the training of cockpit crew for Concorde. Together, Capt John Eames and SEO Roger Bricknell will discuss Flight Crew Training, highlighting the differences between Concorde and subsonic airliners that Pilots had to be trained to cope with. In addition, the lecture will touch on the novelty and complexity of Concorde at the time of its introduction, including fly-by-wire control of the centre of gravity by fuel transfer, behaviour at high incidence, adjustable air intakes and exhausts, the reduced range in subsonic flight and the emergency procedures for pressurisation problems at 60,000ft. (more…)
Loughborough Branch lecture
The Brough Branch presents a lecture entitled ‘F-35 Lightning II’, delivered by Lee Franks, Capability Insertion and Project Manager, BAE Systems, and President Hull Assiociation of Engineers on 9th March 2011.
Contact: [email protected]
Speaker: Chairman Graem Corfield.
Chester Branch lecture:
Speaker: Mark Cousins, V P. Head of Flight Test Means - EVM.
Lecture will be held at the Personnel and Conference centre, BAE Systems, Warton. All Lectures commence at 7.30pm. Will all attendees at Warton note that the doors are locked at about 7.35 and no admittance thereafter is allowed.
For Security reasons non-BAE Systems employees are requested to advise Alan Matthews of their intention to attend.
FOR SECURITY REASONS, WHEN ATTENDING LECTURES AT BAE Systems PLEASE BRING YOUR PROGRAMME CARD WITH YOU TO SHOW AT THE DOOR. GUESTS ARE WELCOME TO ATTEND PROVIDED THEY ARE ACCOMPANIED BY A CARD HOLDER.
This medical ‘Grand Round’ will educate aeromedical specialists about the decision-making process in complex aeromedical cases and the need to understand the evidence base underpinning the decisions made. The combination of military and civilian national level experts in aerospace medicine that would not be obtainable from any other source will ensure that aerospace medical practitioners will benefit in their daily practice from attending this Symposium.
Perhaps best known as a fiendish torture device from which James Bond escaped, or an exhausting experience during flying training, the human centrifuge has been pivotal to advancements in aviation and space medicine over the last 80 years. In this presentation, the story of the struggle against G force is told from the perspective of the human centrifuge. In addition to understanding how it contributed to the development of modern day G protection, some of the technical challenges associated with the device will be explored. From a past rooted in research and development to possible futures in flight simulation and human spaceflight, the story of the centrifuge will be revealed in this Stewart Memorial Lecture.
Oxford Branch lecture entitled One of the Few, delivered by John Shipman at The Farmhouse Suite, Begbroke Business & Science Park on March 15th
Gloucester & Cheltenham Branch lecture:
Speaker: Ian Burrett VP Training Aircrew Operations.
On the 12 April 1961, Vostok 1 lifted off from the Soviet Cosmodrome in Baikonur with cosmonaut Major Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin on board. Gagarin was the first human being to leave the Earth’s atmosphere, and although his flight was to last only 1 hour 48 minutes, circling the Earth just once, it provoked important political, social, cultural and technical changes, and changed humanity’s perspective of its place on Earth forever.
The fiftieth anniversary of this flight provides an opportunity for a conference combining elements of historical review, assessment of the social and cultural impact of the event in the UK, Russia, and worldwide, and consideration of areas of scientific endeavour of common interest to both Russia and the West. The anniversary occurs as the long term objectives and strategy for human spaceflight are being questioned in both Russia and the West, making this an appropriate moment to revisit that first flight. To this end, a programme of lectures and discussions is being prepared involving significant Russian involvement. The aims of the conference are to:
Topics to be discussed will include five application areas identified by a joint UK-Russia forum as being of particular interest, namely space medicine and psychology, satellite communication technologies, optics and instrument systems, monitoring and natural disasters, and robotics and autonomous operations. The historical and cultural dimensions will also be given full attention.
Additionally, the conference will provide an opportunity to identify ways in which further unique collaborative ventures can be developed for the future, delivering benefit to both the UK and Russia.
The conference will be of interest to both the scientific and cultural communities. In the scientific and industrial sectors, it will appeal to those in the fields of exploration, human spaceflight, microgravity, space medicine and psychology, robotics, space mechanisms, communication technologies, optics and instruments, monitoring / natural disasters. On the humanities side, it will appeal to those working in culture and the arts (film, museums, galleries etc.), 20th century history, international politics, human destiny, and education (outreach).
There will be a strong networking element to the conference and both formal and informal opportunities for this will be provided.
Full programme to follow soon.
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Medway Branch Lecture:
Speaker: Air Cdre Norman Bonnor.
The Stratosphere offers a new domain to provide services across whole countries and across the world, without the intermittent coverage or high infrastructure or operational/launch costs of other systems. However, we have only briefly occupied the Stratosphere –until now.
The QinetiQ Zephyr is the first to demonstrate that Solar aircraft are capable of “eternal” flight in the stratosphere with real payloads, and is the world’s longest flying aeroplane without refuelling- a 14 day first flight at altitudes up to more than 70,000ft in July 2010.
The lecture will describe how the Zephyr programme has progressed towards a truly high altitude, longer duration, operationally capable platform combining all-new, efficient technology- and how Zephyr has successfully introduced the new technology in a comprehensive ground and flight test programme.
Eternal solar platforms offer many potential applications –those currently carried out by satellites and aircraft (such as communications, earth observation, atmospheric sampling) – better and cheaper, and new applications which are not currently possible or affordable by other means.
Chris Kelleher is the QinetiQ Technical Director for High Altitude, Long Endurance (HALE) systems and Flight operations Manager of Zephyr, the world’s first “eternal” aircraft. He has 30 years experience of aircraft and spacecraft design and operation at QinetiQ Farnborough. He is married with 4 children, and flies light aircraft as a hobby and occasional air displays, being a three times former winner of the British Aerobatics Association Advanced Level.
Refreshments will be served from 17.30hrs and the lecture will commence at 18.00hrs.
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Yeovil Branch Lecture:
Speaker: Prof. Tim Cansdale, FRAeS.
Entrance via Lysander Road main gate reception. Refreshments served from 17:45.
Birmingham, Wolverhampton & Cosford Branch lecture:
Speakers: To Be Announced.
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