Category Archives: Uncategorized

Branch Dinner 2019

THURSDAY 7th MARCH 2019

7.45 pm in the Hotel du Vin, Cambridge 

Following on from our very successful dinner in March 2018, the committee have organised a dinner following the lecture on Thursday 7th March 2019.

The dinner will follow the lecture at 7.45 pm in the Hotel du Vin (opposite the Engineering Department). We have negotiated a price of £35.00 per head, including VAT and service, for three courses. You may also invite guests at £35 per head.

To book your place for the dinner – as soon as possible but absolutely no later than 1st March 2019 please fill in the booking form linked below.

Cambridge Branch Dinner 2019 Booking Form

2015 Spring Branch Visit

PAST VISIT

The 2015 Cambridge Branch spring visit is to RAF Regiment Heritage Centre RAF Honington & 7th Special Operations Squadron USAF, RAF Mildenhall.

Dates: Tuesday 31st March 2015 & Wednesday 1st April.

Join this visit to see one of Suffolk’s hidden gems, the RAF Regiment’s own museum, and the fascinating CV-22 Osprey tilt-wing aircraft used by the US Air Force for clandestine operations.  Perhaps your last chance to visit Mildenhall as a front-line operational airfield

We start this visit at the RAF Regiment Heritage Centre at RAF Honington, the Regiment’s current depot.  This museum covers the Regiment’s origins and its exploits from Iraq in the 1920s through WWII up to the present day.  Room after room is full of maps, photographs & equipment, including one of the only two remaining Rolls-Royce armoured cars.  Two-course lunch (main & dessert) with tea or coffee is at the Riverside Hotel, Mildenhall.  After lunch we will make the short journey to RAF Mildenhall to see the CV-22 Ospreys operated by the USAF.  Those who attended October’s branch lecture given by Lt Col James Peterson will recall the many fascinating features of this unique aircraft.  The Pentagon has announced the closure of RAF Mildenhall over the next few years.

Items of Interest

**** T****
WEDNESDAY 8th OCTOBER at 7.00 PM
BBC2 will show a repeat of Britain’s greatest Pilot, Royal Navy Captain Eric Brown.
Captain Brown gave a fantastic lecture last season and we were all fascinated by his exploits and this would be an opportunity to see him again.

 

The following BBC programmes might be of interest, considering October lecture on UAVs and November lecture on the WW1 Zeppelin Attacks.

Available on ‘Listen Again’ on Radio 4 via the iPlayer – ‘The Year of the Drone’, broadcast Monday 6th October, 11:00 to 11:30.

BBC 4 TV programme to be broadcast Tuesday 7th October, 20:30 to 21:00, entitled ‘World War One at Home: the Zeppelin Terror’, with archive film plus a helicopter flight tracing the route of the attacks.