Sadly on Sunday 5 February 2012 John L Parker (of Farnborough Heritage) died unexpectedly in his sleep. John's funeral will take place on Friday 24 February at 3.00pm at
Guildford Road, Aldershot
Hampshire GU12 4BP
John's family would then like to invite friends to join them for a buffet and refreshments in the Presentation Theatre, Park Centre, Farnborough.
In order to get some idea of numbers for the Crematorium and Park Centre, would you
please advise Simon Howison’s secretary, Lesley Crook 
if you are able to attend.
Highly detailed Hawk T1A 1/48 scale (236mm long) models in three versions are available to Hawker Association members from Big Box (UK) Ltd. Details.
One or more samples will be available to view at the Feb 8th meeting, and also some 1/72nd models of other Hawker aircraft, namely, Hart, Demon, Tempest, and 1/48th scale Fury
F35B 1st Landing on USS WASP This youtube video was made around 3 October 2011 in
the Atlantic, off Newport News (Hampton Roads), Virginia during the latest sea trials
of the F-
On Tuesday 6 December the BAES Retirement Association Kingston had their last meeting; a Xmas buffet. Unfortunately there has been the inevitable fall in membership and there was about to be a big increase in the cost of the meeting place. At the AGM on 4 October 2011 it was decided that it wasn’t viable for the association to continue. Past members will continue to meet informally at the YMCA Hawker Centre on the first Tuesday of the month (excluding January).
On 14 December 48 members had a delicious Xmas lunch prepared by the YMCA Hawker Centre; story
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Most of the talks given to the Association are videoed by Richard Cannon. If you missed a talk many are available as a video DVD; the List also gives links to the newsletter stories.
Next Event
On Wednesday 14 March Tim Gedge will talk on ‘Life after aviation in boat building’. There will be a committee meeting in the morning.
On Thursday 22 March Hawker Association member Michael Pryce will be giving a RAeS HQ Lecture at Hamilton Place on the rise and fall of the Hawker P.1154. The talk will look at the political and technical aspects of the project as well as drawing parallels with recent events that led to the withdrawal of the Harrier from UK service. The talk starts at 6pm. All welcome. More information
On Wed 11 April there is the Annual General Meeting; please support your Association.
After the formal AGM business is completed videos will be shown. Notice of AGM and
Membership renewal form as a PDF document.
On 2 to 5 June The Kingston Aviation Festival (KAF) will run for the four days of
the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Bank Holiday Weekend as part of the Kingston Aviation
Centenary Project (KACP). The Hawker Association lead the successful Heritage Lottery
Fund (HLF) bid made by Joint project leaders Bill Downey and David Hassard; this
is a huge project for them and they will need help. HLF News Release (PDF), KACP
Help request
On 2 November David Hassard gave a very interesting talk to the Friends of Kingston Museum and Heritage Service on the history of ‘The Great Aircraft Factory’ at the Kingston Museum; it was very popular. There was a long queue at the opening time of 6:30pm and unfortunately the Art Gallery can only accommodate 60 people; 55 had to be turned away.
This is a very interesting BBC story on the project to display a replica Hurricane in Windsor town centre to commemorate Sir Sydney Camm; link sent by Alex Seaman.
Association Ties are available at a cost of £7.50. Details
Are you a Member ? If you have worked for Hawkers or a successor company you are
probably eligible to join. Check the list of
qualifying companies. The subscription
for 2012 is only £5. Membership Application form; PDF Document (3kb)
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