It was am excellent day with an audience of about 60 – although disappointing, as Planemike says, that Ian Thirsk couldn’t be there (I wanted to put my Hendon Beacon/SeaLife idea to him :D:D).

Wg Cdr Erica Ferguson, on the other hand, gave a superb presentation about RAF heritage. She demostrates great enthusiasm for the subject and her department (although, I think she said, there are only two of them) seems to be have made great progress in the two years she has been in post.

The programme was a good balance of talks – nicely given a ‘local’ flavour with the three speakers covering A.V.Roe/Avro.

Didn’t meet Planemike but Anon said “hello”.

Congratulations and thanks to John King, Nick Forder and others for bringing it all together. Next one in 2014?

Roger Smith.