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Royal Aeronautical Society - National Aerospace Library Sound Archive (Jeffrey Quill and John Cunningham Interviews)

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Created: 24 July 2017 24 July 2017

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The latest batch of extended interviews with test pilots and other leading aviation personalities from the National Aerospace Library's archives has just been released via the Royal Aeronautical Society's SoundCloud site (just click on the arrow button to 'Play')

www.aerosociety.com/podcast

In a separate interview and lecture the famous Vickers-Supermarine test pilot Jeffrey Quill describes the evolution of the Spitfire and its Rolls-Royce Merlin engine in all their marks  and his later career being responsible for the marketing the SEPECAT Jaguar and MRCA Tornado.

In a separate interview John ‘Cats-Eyes’ Cunningham HonFRAeS - de Havilland’s Chief Test Pilot - recounts highlights from his postwar career, including stories of flying the experimental DH.110 during a total electrical failure, the DH.108 following the death of Geoffrey de Havilland Jnr and the DH.106 Comet 1. and many of the aeroplanes that were designed and built at Hatfield, including the Hawker Siddeley Trident, Comet and DH.108. 

A quick link to the interviews available so far (including interviews with Captain Eric ‘Winkle’ Brown, Chuck Yeager, Scott Crossfield,  Handel Davies, Al White, Bill Humble, Pete Knight, Dick Johnson, Philip Lucas, Peter Bugge, Col. Emil ‘Ted’ Sturmthal, Harald Penrose, John Morton and D. P. Davies) is :-

https://soundcloud.com/aerosociety-podcast/sets

In addition to these interviews, the National Aerospace Library holds a historically significant collection of past Royal Aeronautical Society lectures, interviews and other recordings (probably over 100 separate recordings dating back to the 1940s, which are in many cases the only record which the Society has of a particular speech or lecture)

These recordings (from the original gramophone records, magnetic reel recordings, cassette tapes) have now been digitalised - a real 'Who's Who' of aviation personalities and historical subjects including the voices of Sir Frederick Handley Page, Igor Sikorsky, Sir Barnes Wallis, Theodore von Karman and many other great names  - and the 'highlights' from this collection will subsequently be released via the Society's SoundCloud site over the next 18 months or so:-

www.aerosociety.com/podcast

As a 'taster' of what is  soon to follow two of these historic recordings are already available - the eminent early aviation historian Charles Gibbs-Smith discussing the work of the 'Father of Aeronautics' Sir George Cayley:-

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/podcast-sir-george-cayley

and Peter Twiss and others describing the development of the Fairey Delta 2 and  the world air speed record of 1,132 mph it achieved in 1956:-

https://www.aerosociety.com/news/podcast-fairey-delta-lecture

The intention of this project is to create a historically significant oral history archive which makes the voices of the past (pilots, engineers, scientists etc.) 'alive' once more to inspire and inform current and future generations and the sound archive has attracted a number of favourable comments / interest via social media.

Please note that  if these recordings or extracts from these recordings are to be reproduced  in any  way  (book,  journal  article,  web-site etc.), acknowledgement should  be  made to  the ‘Royal  Aeronautical  Society  (National Aerospace Library)’  as being  the source of  the original.

Please feel welcome to forward details of these historic aviation recordings to anyone who may be interested.

Brian Riddle
Chief Librarian
National Aerospace Library
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61st Annual S&B Award Winners and 2017 Fellow Class

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Herman R. Salmon Technical Publications Award

(Sponsored by Symbolic Displays)

For the Best Technical Paper published in

Cockpit during the Past Year

“Compatibility Flight Testing in 30 Year Old Aircraft - A Case Study on Ineffective Lesson Sharing”

Lt Col Tucker Hamilton, USAF (M)

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Friend of the Society Recognition

Heidi Biermeier

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Ray E. Tenhoff Award

(Sponsored by Aerospace Services International)

For the Most Outstanding Paper Presented

at the SETP Symposium

“T-38 Compressor Stall Mitigation - Propulsion Flight Test”

Lt Col Matt Russell, USAF (M)

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η Eta Award

(Sponsored by Lockheed Martin)

For the Paper Which Best Exhibits Advancements

in Flight Testing Efficiency and Effectiveness Presented

at the SETP Symposium

“XC-2 Development Overview: A Novel Test Technique With SCAS”

Maj Haruhiko Naganawa, JASDF
Maj Naoki Morimoto, JASDF

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Tony LeVier Flight Test Safety Award

(Sponsored by Gentex Corporation)

Mark Skoog, NASA Armstong Flight Research Center

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J. H. Doolittle Award

(Sponsored by The Boeing Company)

For Excellence in the Technical Management or Engineering Aspects of Aerospace Technology

William Gray (F), USAF Test Pilot School

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Iven C. Kincheloe Award

(Sponsored by Lockheed Martin)
In Recognition of Outstanding Professional Accomplishment in the Conduct of Flight Testing During the Past Year

Chuck Ellis (AF), Bombardier Flight Test Center
Bombardier C Series

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2017 Fellows

Rudolf Engeler

Todd Ericson

Kent Ewing

William Gray

Robert Hood

Richard Ljungberg

Andrew McDicken

C. Wayne Staley

Michael Wallace

2017 Honorary Fellow

Jean-Marie Saget