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 25th 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 state, together with  flying displays and aviation pageants.   With  an interest in history and art, he recently contributed to the BBC Radio centenary commemorations of the Battle of Jutland. He lives  in  East Haddon, Northamptonshire.


 

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