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"Albert Ball and his Aircraft " -a talk by Brett Goodyear

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An April tradition at the Essex Branch is the Bill Fulton Memorial Lecture, in honour of our past Chairman. Long-standing Branch member, Brett Goodyear, was due to give this talk in April 2020 but circumstances intervened. This talk is one that Bill had been involved in earlier and Brett will be talking about Albert Ball and his aircraft, the stor…


'From Flying Dreadnought to Dogfighter - The Troubled Birth of the British Fighter‘ a talk by Greg Baughen

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This talk destroys many myths about WW1 fighter development. Part talk, part detective story, it explains how the importance of air superiority was understood long before the Great War began, explores how naval influence delayed the development of dogfighters like the Camel and SE5a and tracks down the mysterious Fighting Experimental dreadnoughts …