42. The Honourable Company of Air Pilots Lecture

This week Fiona and I attended the Honourable Company of Air Pilots lecture at the Royal Aeronautical Society in London. The lecture, on the subject of Airlander, was given by Chris Daniels who is the Head of Partnerships and Communications at Hybrid Air Vehicles Ltd.

It was a fascinating lecture looking back at the development of airships (and the dramatic loss of R101) up to the present day and the Airlander, which is a hybrid with conventional  aircraft wings (albeit small) but a large helium filled “balloon” over 60m in length.

Future operations as a payload carrier and surveillance, both military and wildlife poacher monitoring were ably included and discussed. A thoroughly enjoyable evening.

Photograph shows me beneath the record of past presidents of the Royal aeronautical Society.