​​13th October 2026

Alan Biggins - Radio - Our Sixth Sense

​

If Bletchley Park was the brain of Allied intelligence in World War Two, then there were (and are) many other, mostly forgotten, secret sites which surrounded it.

Nowhere is this more the case than along the A413 - the road between Aylesbury and Buckingham. Near this road there were around a dozen such sites.

Many of these sites were related to radio communications – principally for the RAF. The story of radio and how it was adopted and used by the RAF is the subject of this talk

​

​10th November 2026

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

​

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

​

​8th December 2026

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

​

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

​

12th January 2027

Patrick Fitzgerald - In Praise of the Turbo Prop

​

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the Korean War in 1952, as a far more capable ‘Tactical Transport’ aircraft than all the piston powered aircraft it superseded, and first flew in August 1954

​​

9th February 2026

Tony Bray - The Glider Pilot Regiment

​

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

​

9th March 2027

MKAS AGM & Photo Competition

​

​