Programme of Events 2020 updated 11Mar2021

At14:00 on the second Wednesday of each month there will be a meeting, normally at the YMCA Hawker Centre (was the Hawker Sports and Social Club), Lower Ham Road, Kingston on Thames, Kingston, KT2 5BH unless indicated otherwise.

There is a well stocked bar, and good inexpensive lunches and snacks are available. We hope members will avail themselves of these. There is plenty of free parking space.

Unfortunately due to Covid-19 from Wednesday 8 April all activities, except for Zoom virtual meetings, were postponed or cancelled because the Hawker Centre was closed.

2020 PROGRAMME
Wednesday 8 January	Test pilot collection by Jill Hollingworth
Wednesday 12 February	Scenic highlihts from Travels in the US - Bob Catterson
Wednesday 11 March	Managing the closure of Kingston - Mike Frain
Unfortunately due to Covid-19 all future activities, except for Zoom virtual meetings, are postponed or cancelled until further notice
Wednesday 8 April	AGM Cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions
Wednesday 13 May	"A Calamity and a Triumph" - Lorimer Burn. Cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Wednesday 10 June	Summer barbecue. Cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Wednesday 9 September	Leo, the worlds first business computer - Neville Lyons. Due to Covid-19 restrictions rescheduled to 14 July 2021 as a Zoom meetong.
Wednesday 14 October	The story of XP984 - David Collingridge. Cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Wednesday 11 November	100th Anniversary of Hawker Engineering Co Ltd - David Hassard and Chris Farara. Cancelled due to Covid-19 restrictions.
Thursday 26 November	Fall of Icarus: RAF policy and fighter design 1945-1949” - Michael Pryce. Zoom Virtual meeting.

Speaker Profiles

Jill Hollingworth As a young girl Jill had a fascination with aircraft and the heroic pilots who tested them. Over many decades she was in correspondence with them and collated an unique collection of personal letters and signed photographs from the test pilots.
Bob Catterson joined HSA Kingston in 1974 as a graduate apprentice and from 1976 worked on Harrier/Hawk mechanical systems. In 1980, he moved to the Boeing Co in the US and led the wing hydraulics design on the Boeing 757 and 737-300. He rejoined BAe in 1983 and retired in 2011 as Chief Systems Engineer and Project Director in Strategic Capability Solutions.

Mike Frain served a 5 year plus Engineering Apprenticeship with Unilever covering all aspects of Factory Maintenance. In 1972, he applied for and was offered the position of Deputy Works Engineer with Hawker Siddeley - Kingston / Dunsfold, followed by appointment as Works Engineer on the retirement of Alf Sheppard.