​​10th November 2026

Robin Evans - Gents, Empire and a Lady - The First Overflight of Everest in 1933

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Following his popular lecture last year, Robin Evans explains how a cast of distinguished gents mounted an expedition to overfly the roof of the world, 20 years before the ‘Third Pole’ was conquered on foot. Why an eccentric Lady helped them, but extracted a cost - and how an award-winning film neglected to mention anything that went wrong

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​8th December 2026

Geoff Day - 'I Only Signed up for a Trial Lesson!'

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During this evening Squadron Leader/Captain Geoff Day will take us through the ups and downs (mainly ups!) of his 56 years in aviation, from joining the RAF via the University Air Squadron to retiring as a Senior CAA Helicopter Examiner

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12th January 2027

Patrick Fitzgerald - In Praise of the Turbo Prop

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Focussing on the Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Sqn Ldr Patrick Fitzgerald (ret’d) explains why some aircraft still have propellers in the 21st century.  The C-130 was often described as the RAF’s ubiquitous workhorse.  It was developed post the Korean War in 1952, as a far more capable ‘Tactical Transport’ aircraft than all the piston powered aircraft it superseded, and first flew in August 1954

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9th February 2026

Tony Bray - The Glider Pilot Regiment

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Military historian Tony Bray tonight outlines how the airborne forces, both parachute and glider-borne, were developed in 1940. He will introduce the four main military gliders used by the Allies – from the small Hotspur used for training, to the massive tank-carrying Hamilcar, and explain how the future pilots of the Glider Pilot Regiment were selected and trained.

 Tony takes us through what it was like to fly a Horsa glider into Normandy just after midnight on 6th June 1944, to seize the bridge over the Caen Canal at Benouville, later to be called Pegasus Bridge

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9th March 2027

MKAS AGM & Photo Competition

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13th April 2027

Richard Norris - Lightning Preservation Group

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Details to follow

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11th May 2027

Diana Britten - A Life in Aerobatics

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Details to follow

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8th June 2027

Andy Brockman - The Buried Spitfires of Burma

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It was a story which both divided and intrigued the historic aviation world, took in Prime Ministers and President's and captivated the world's media.  Did Lord Louis Mountbatten order the burial of as many as thirty six Spitfires at RAF Mingaladon, in what was then Burma, in late 1945?  Andy Brockman, who led the research team investigating the story in 2012, tells the inside story of the legend of the Buried Spitfires of Burma and the documentary research which revealed what may be the aviation equivalent of the Hitler diaries hoax

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13th July 2027

Mike Chapman - The Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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Mike Chapman is a volunteer with the Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) and tonight summarises the CWGC’s history and the scope/scale of the operation today.  He will then look at some specific sites and the stories of some of the airmen and women from the First and Second World Wars commemorated at those cemeteries and memorials and then look at the locations where the commemorations of the service personnel take place.  He will cover examples from the RFC, RNAS, RAF, WAAF, ATA and FAA

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