New Forest Aviation Group - Previous talks
08Nov24 - ‘To the ‘Gulf’ war as an F16 pilot’ by Ed Smith
11Oct24 - Recovery of a Fairey Barracude from the Solent by Alistair Byford-Bates
13Sep24 - D-Day Dakota by Graham Spiller
12Jul24 - C-7A Caribou & 457th Tactical Airlift Sqdn - Vietnam by Jack Froelich
14Jun24 - 'NATS' by Andrew Burke
10May24 - 'DC10 Crash in Antarctica' by Dr James Mason
12Apr24 - 'The Wooden Wonder - Development of the de Havilland Mosquito' by Rod Dean
08Mar24 - 'RAF Bomber Commarnd', by Jeremy Prescott
09Feb24 - 'Grandma flew Spitfires - the ATA', by John Webster
12Jan24 - 'Characters, Courage & Calamities Story of SOE', by Peter Power
10Nov23 - ‘The Story of Fairey Aviation’ by David Livermore
13Oct23 - ‘German Rockets & Jet Genius 1933 - 1945’ by Steve Alcock
08Sep23 - ‘An MOD Cameraman at Boscombe Down 1958–1990’ by Robbie Forrester Addie
14Jul23 - ‘RAF Beaulieu’ by Marc Heighway
09Jun23 - ‘UK Air Defence - Radar and tactics since 1940’ by Joe Marsden
12May23 -‘The Spitfire Makers’ by Alan Matlock
14Apr23 -‘Vic's Flying Boat War’ by Richard Hodgkinson
10Mar23 -'The Royal Air Force' by Flt Lt Ben Goodlad RAF
10Feb23 -‘Surveillance In Air Traffic Control: Ground, Air & Space’ by Philip Benstead
13Jan23 -‘Homebuilt History-110 years of amateur built aircraft’by Malcolm Rogan
11Nov22 -‘Cold War Test Pilot’ by Ron Burrows
14Oct22 -‘Empire Test Pilots School – Rotary Wing’ by Eric Fitzpatrick
09Sep22 -‘Test Pilot’ by Chris Taylor
08Jul22 -‘Wings Over Lee 1917 -2022' by Bob Wealthy
10Jun22 -‘The Gloster Meteor Development’ by Rod Dean
13May22 -‘Tarrant Rushton’ by Peter Scriven
08Apr22 -‘Volcanoes - How they have affected the World’ by Chris Marshall
11Mar22 - 'Aeralis – the Modular Jet' by Richard Eastment OBE FRAeS
11Feb22 - 'H.P.Folland, Folland Aircraft & the Gnat' by Glenn Gilbertson
14Jan22 - ‘The Magic That Was The Harrier’ by Chris Marshall
12Nov21 - ‘Transatlantic Betrayal’ by Andrew Porter
08Oct21 - 'Bloodhound The Missile' by Joe Marsden
10Sep21 - ‘Gliding the Boeing 747’ by Eric Moody
09Apr21 - 'The Aerospace Achievements of Harry Zeffert' by Philip Benstead via Zoom
13Nov20 - Postponed The Icelandic Volcano, why was Airspace closed’ by Graham Lake FRAeS
09Oct20 - Postponed ‘Bloodhound’ by Joe Marsden
11Sep20 - Postponed ‘Historic Army Aviation Flight’
10Jul20 - Via Zoom ‘Drones, Past ,Present and Future’ by Philip Benstead
12Jun20 - Postponed ‘The Meteor’ by Rod Dean
01May20- Postponed ‘The Magic That Was The Harrier’ by Chris Marshall
03Apr20 - Postponed ‘Gliding the Boeing 747’ by Eric Moody
13Mar20 - AGM followed by ‘ASTOR’ by Joe Marsden
14Feb20 - ‘Nevil Shute Norway’ by Stephen Robson
10Jan20 - ‘The Peoples Mosquito’ by Alan Pickford
08Nov19 - ‘So that others may live: Merlin by choice’ by Jeremy Graham FRAeS
11Oct19 - ‘Giant's in the Sky’ - The WW1 Zeppelins by David Skillen
13Sep19 - ‘Flying the SR71’ by Col Richard Graham USAF (Rtd)
12Jul19 - Merlins, Griffons and Spitfires by Kevin Patience
14Jun19 - ‘The Navy’s Role in the Battle of Britain’ by Kim Sharman
10May19 - ‘Westland Rotary Wing UAVs' by Jeremy Graham FRAeS
09Apr19 - ‘Air Safety & Wind Farms’ by Philip Benstead
08Mar19 - AGM plus a video by Lionel Fynn ‘Flight in a Shackleton and BBMF Lancaster’
08Feb19 - ‘Horseless Carriage to Helicopter via low earth orbit' by Dr Alisdair Wood
11Jan19 - Film ‘Secret Spitfires - the Directors Cut’ how Spitfires were made and the people who made them in the back streets and towns when the Supermarine factory lay in ruins.
09Nov18 - ‘Army Helicopters’ by Denzil Sharp
12Oct18 - ‘WW1 & WW2’ Submarine Operations by Commodore Chris Munns
14Sep18 - ‘Barnes Wallis - Airships to Astrophysics’ by Peter Rix
Short Intro to "The People's Mosquito" by Alan Pickford
13Jul18 - The New Forest Airfields during WW2’ by Dr Henry Goodall of FONFA
08Jun18 - ‘Aircraft Noise - How it is managed’ by Graham Lake, FRAeS
11May18 - ‘Navigation and Sat Navs’ by Ernie Ball - a non technical explanation of how it works.
13Apr18 - ‘Forty years of flying’ by John Daniels
09Mar18 - AGM &‘The Stratos 714’ by Gordon Robinson
09Feb18 - ‘The Avro Shackleton’ by Andy Collins
12Jan18 - ‘Triumphs and Tribulations’ by Stephen Bath of Bath Travel
10 Nov - ‘My Life as an Air Transport Pilot’ by Derek Oldham
03 Oct - ‘Concorde’ by Mike Marsden
08 Sep - ‘Controlling 911’ by Phil Holt
14 Jul - ‘Experimental Test Flying - Its Ups and Downs!!’ By Rod Sears
09 Jun - ‘The Wessex Aircraft Industry” by Mike Phipp
12 May - ‘Fleet Air Arm Sea Vixen pilot’ by Kim Sharman
07 Apr- Half a century of military flying - Bernie Scott
10 Mar - AGM and Charles Rolls and Britain’s First International Aviation Meeting
10 Feb - "Flying and Displaying Vintage Jet Aircraft."By Rod Dean
13th Jan 2017 - ‘Whittle and the Jet Engine’ by Stephen Robson
11th November ‘The Cowboy, the Revolutionary and the Novelist - three unsung aviation pioneers" by Graham Spiller
14th October ‘Working on HM Submarines’ by Ray Jones
9th September - ‘Lawrence - Before and after Arabia’ by Colin van Geffen
8th July ‘Poole and its Flying Boats’ by Mike Phipp
10th June ‘Nimrod MRA4’ by Andrew Collins
13th May ‘Flying the 747’ by Kim Sharman
8th April ‘ Flying and Displaying Vintage Aircraft’ by Rod Dean
11th March - AGM followed by ‘The Sopwith Bat boat ‘ by Bob Wealthy
12th February - An Airborne View by Ian Haskell
8th January ‘Battle of Britain - 1935’by Steve Robson
13th November ‘The Canberra’ by Phil Nelson
9th October ‘Portsmouth Aviation Aerocar’ by Bob Wealthy
11th September ‘Spitfire Mk26b - Build and Fly’ by Martin Laking
10th July 'Air to Air Refuelling in the South Atlantic War includingthe Vulcan Bombing Raid on the Falklands' - by Barry Neal
12th June ‘Buccaneer’ by John Myers
8th May “55 years of Flying Fun” by Clive Rustin
10th April “100 years of Air Accident Investigation” by Peter Coombs
13Mar15 AGM followed by ‘Hampshire and IofW Air Ambulance’ by Ian Jeffery
13Feb15 ‘London’s Second Airport - Blackbushe’ by David Ruffle
09 Jan15 ‘Britain’s Last Airliner - BAe146’ by Stephen Robson
14Nov14 - ‘Palmair - Bournemouth’s Airline’ by Mike Phipp
10Oct14 - ‘The Ordnance Survey Flying Unit’ by Paul Marshall
12Sep14 - ‘Early testing of the F35B - LightningII’ by Graham Tomlinson, former BAe Test Pilot
11Jul14 - ‘Mixed bag and Quiz’ by Steve Robson
13Jun14 - ‘Flying the Lightning’ by John Ward, a former Air Defence pilot
09May14 - ‘Paragliding - the ups and downs’ by Neil McCain, Wessex Hangliding and Paragliding Club
11Apr14 - ‘Flying with the Red Arrows’ by John Myers a former ‘Red3’ and ‘Red9’ in the Red Arrows
14Mar14 - AGM and 'The UK Nuclear Test Programme' by Tom Kelly
14Feb14 - 'Aerial Surveillance - Part 2' by Phil Nelson
10Jan14 - ‘Enigma and its coding’ by Alan Watson
8Nov13 - 'The Supersonic Adventure' by Colin Hobbs
11Oct13 - 'Hurricanes to Murmansk' by Air Cdre Philip Wilkinson, CVO, FRAeS, RAF (Rtd)
13Sep13 - 'The Falklands War - a very personal view' by Dave Morgan DSC
12Jul13 - 'Hunter One' by Mike Phipp
14Jun13 - 'Out of Control' by Mark Davenport
10May13 - 'An Aviation Interest' by Mike Symes NFAG member
12Apr13 - "Where Highwaymen Rode", by Colin Hobbs history and future of Heathrow Airport,
08Mar13 - "Britten Norman Islander" by Bob Wealthy.
See Links for Britten-Norman Aircraft Preservation Society
08Feb13 - "Aerial Surveillance - how does it affect the price of fish?" - by Phil Nelson
11Jan13 - "Hunt the Königsberg" - by Kevin Patience (RNAS against the
German Navy in East Africa - the true story behind the film "Shout at the Devil")
2024
Very reluctantly, after 30years of providing a gathering place for aviation minded people and having survived and recovered well following the pandemic, NFAG will have to close due to the lack of new committee members for 2025.
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