WTHSoc October 2024 Meeting Details
Date - 25 Oct 2024 Time- 20:00 (Doors open 19:30) Location - Weston Turville Village Hall Title - “Another Icarus” Speaker – Roy Smart Entrance - £2 members, £3 visitors “Another Icarus” Roy Smart Meeting on Friday 25 th Oct 2024 The tale of aviation pioneer Percy Sinclair Pilcher and his wonderful sister, Ella, whose noble quest for flight ended tragically at Stanford Hall, on the banks of Shakespeare’s Avon; the first Englishman to die in the cause of ‘the conquest of the air’ when on the cusp of becoming the most famous name in aviation history. Roy has been a popular speaker at our society, presenting “Wallis Simpson & the Abdication crisis” in 2020 and “David Beatty - Last Naval Hero” in 2018. Roy Smart was a Naval Officer, Fleet Air Arm pilot and air director of many great national memorial events including the televised D Day, VE and VJ Day commemorations attended by the Queen and fifty heads of st