IMechE Aerospace North West Meeting Minutes A meeting of the IMechE Aerospace North West committee was held on Monday 19 th October 2015 at David Lloyd Club, Chorley. The meeting commenced at 18:30 till 20:30. Chairman Vice Chairman Immediate Past Chairman Hon Secretary Hon Treasurer Committee members Euan Mason Vacancy Ivan Dean Rebecca Donald-Lopez Manuel Donald-Lopez Arreyhon Alemi David Ball David Barrett Martin Baxter Paul Gardner Kevin Hudson Martin Hyman Andrew Medd Iain Minton Thurai Rahulan Graham Roe Clive Winby 1 ANW ATTENDEES Arreyhon Alemi Rail Industry Martin Baxter BAE Systems Rebecca Donald-Lopez BAE Systems / Hon Secretary IMechE ANW Martin Hyman Business Consultant Euan Mason BAE Systems / Chairman Lancashire Area & ANW Andrew Medd Education Advisory Group Thurai Rahulan University of Salford / Royal Aeronautical Society Clive Winby SILCOMS Ltd. Apologies were received from David Ball IMechE Power Industries Division NW Centre Chair David Barrett IMechE Business Development Manager Ivan Dean Immediate Past Chairman ANW Manuel Donald-Lopez BAE Systems / Hon Treasurer IMechE ANW Paul Gardner Aircelle Iain Minton Aircelle Graham Roe Royal Aeronautical Society Page 1 of 10
2 MINUTES FROM THE LAST MEETING The minutes from the last meeting held on Monday 7 th September 2015 were agreed to be the true and accurate record. 3 TREASURERS REPORTS For ANW finances see Appendix 2. Current balance is 1240.71. There are outstanding actions related to the Yorkshire air museum visit which almost cancel each other out so the end balance would be 1245.74 rather than 1240.71 The outstanding actions are: ANW to pay 59.67 back to HQ Rebecca Donald-Lopez to pay 85 refund from Bubble Travel into ANW account ANW to pay 5 to attendees who requested a travel refund (total of 20) So the net gain is 5.03 4 AEROSPACE DIVISION & HQ UPDATES There is an Aerospace Board committee meeting on Monday 26 October 2015. Andrew Medd reported that HQ has updated the events booking website for the better. 5 EVENTS & ACTIVITIES PROGRAMME - 2015 / 2016 5.1 Water management & Ice formation in Aircraft Fuel Systems Date: Tuesday 3 rd November 2015 Venue: Lecture Theatre T0.03 MMU Time: 18:00 for 18:30 Speaker: Dave Bradshaw, Commercial Director & Duncan Woods, Senior Engineer, Woodford Engineering Consultancy Title: Water management & Ice formation in Aircraft Fuel Systems Organiser: Martin Hyman The proposed Undercarriage event by APPH could not go ahead, therefore an event on the Met Office was proposed as a replacement. However, Manchester area committee thought this was not mechanical enough and requested a replacement. Martin Hyman has organised a replacement lecture titled Water management & Ice formation in Aircraft Fuel Systems. There will be 2 speakers from Woodford Engineering Consultancy. This event has been advertised and 9 attendees registered so far. Rebecca Donald-Lopez took an action to send the attendees list to Robert Maekin and to post two gifts for speakers to Martin Hyman. ACTION: Rebecca Donald-Lopez Page 2 of 10
5.2 Teranis Flight Testing Joint Lecture with RAeS Preston Branch Date: 9 th December 2015 Venue: Canberra Club Samlesbury, BB2 7LF Time: 19:30 for 21:00 Speaker: Paddy Bourne, BAE Systems Title: Taranis Flight Testing Organiser: RAeS Preston Branch Rebecca Donald-Lopez took an action to add the event details to the website and send via the list server. Andrew Medd informed the committee that the new event booking system sends out an automatic event reminder email. 5.3 Air Accident Investigation Lecture Date: Tuesday 26 th January 2015 Venue: Lecture Theatre Warton Time: 18:00 for 18:30 Speaker: Keith Conradi Chief Inspector of the AAIB in Farnborough Title: Air Accident Investigation Organiser: Martin Baxter Martin Baxter reported that due to half term Keith Conradi Chief Inspector of the AAIB in Farnborough could no longer make the October date. It was decided to re-arrange this meeting for January or February, avoiding 13 Jan, 10 Feb & 17 Feb. Martin took an action to see if the visit can be tied in with a business meeting at BAE Systems. Since the meeting this date has been set as Tuesday 26th January 2016. Action: Martin Baxter The point was raised that this event was initially going to be a joint event with RAeS Preston Branch. It was decided that we would ask them to joint badge it in terms of promotion. 5.4 Visit to Kaman Composites UK Date: Venue: Time: Organiser: Feb / April / May Kaman Burnley site Martin Hyman Martin Hyman has been back in touch with Kaman regarding a factory visit. They are now happy for us to visit their Burnley site. Martin Hyman took an action to confirm the date to be either mid to late Nov or any time January, avoiding 13 Jan, depending on the date of the AAIB. This event will now need to be organised for Feb (avoiding 10 & 17 Feb), April or May 2016 as the AAIB event is now in January. Action: Martin Hyman Page 3 of 10
5.5 Met Office Lecture Date: Feb / April / May Venue: Time: 18:00 for 18:30 Speaker: Title: Organiser: Martin Hyman Martin Hyman volunteered to organise this for January or February, avoiding 13 Jan, 10 Feb & 17 Feb, depending on the AAIB event date. This event therefore now needs to be organised for February, April or May as the AAIB event is in January. Action: Martin Hyman 5.6 Invitation Only Visit to MBDA UK Ltd. Date: Wednesday 23 rd March 2016 Venue: MBDA UK Ltd, Lostock, Bolton, BL6 4BR Time: 18:00 for 18:15 Numbers: 12 maximum Organiser: Andrew Medd Andrew Medd took an action to contact Gareth Humphreys and request a visit for a Wednesday afternoon or evening in March. Since the meeting Andrew has arranged the event as above. 6 WISH LIST FOR FUTURE EVENTS A wish list of future events suggested by committee members at this meeting can be seen in appendix 3. This wish list will be left in the minutes and modified as and when required. 7 DATE OF NEXT MEETING Monday 7 th December 2015 at David Lloyd Club, Whittle le Woods, Chorley at 18:00 for 18:30. Andrew Medd gave his apologies for this next meeting. 8 DATE OF PROPOSED IMECHE ANW COMMITTEE MEETINGS 2015 Monday 19 January 2015 Monday 2 March 2015 Monday 20 April 2015 Monday 18 May 2015 Monday 22 June 2015 Monday 7 September 2015 Page 4 of 10
Monday 19 October 2015 Monday 7 December 2015 9 AEROSPACE DIVISION MEETINGS Aerospace Board Meetings Monday 26 January 2015 Monday 20 April 2015 Monday 22 June 2015 Monday 09 November 2015 Aero Division Technical Committee Meeting Monday 23 March 2015 10 REGIONAL MEETINGS Monday 16 March 2015 NWR AGM Monday 13 April 2015 Monday 6 th July 2015 Monday 5 th October 2015 Minutes taken by: Rebecca Donald-Lopez Hon Treasurer IMechE Aerospace North West 19 October 2015 Page 5 of 10
Appendix 1 IMechE ANW 2015/2016 Programme DATE TIME VENUE TITLE LECTURER ORGANISER Monday 31 st August 2015 8:30 17:30 York Aviation Museum, Elvington York Aviation Museum Visit on Rolling Thunder Day NA Rebecca & Manuel Donald-Lopez Wednesday 14 th October 2015 Tuesday 3 rd November 2015 Wednesday 9 th December 2015 Tuesday 26 th January 2015 19:30 21:00 18:00 for 18:30 19:30 21:00 18:00 for 18:30 Personnel & Conference Centre, BAE Systems, Warton John Dalton Building, Manchester University Canberra Club Samlesbury Warton Lecture Theatre V-22 Osprey Water Management & Ice Formation in Aircraft Fuel Systems Taranis Flight Testing Rick Lamaster Boeing Dave Bradshaw, Commercial Director & Duncan Woods, Senior Engineer, Woodford Engineering Consultancy BAE Systems Joint Badge with RAeS Martin Hyman & David Ball Joint Badge with RAeS AAIB Keith Conradi Martin Baxter February 2016 Wednesday 23 rd March 2016 18:00 for 18:15 MBDA UK Ltd Invitation only visit to MBDA NA Andrew Medd April 2016 May 2016 2016 Kaman, Darwen Composites Event 3: Carbon Composites Manufacture Visit to Kaman Composites UK Martin Hyman Page 6 of 10
Appendix 2 ANW Finances Page 7 of 10
Manuel Donald-Lopez Hon Treasurer IMechE Aerospace North West Page 8 of 10
Appendix 3 Wish List of Future Events Manchester Airport Black Museum Visit Clive Winby still chasing Concorde & Son of Concorde Next generation supersonic aircraft & Concorde Visit Subsidised visit to Concorde only Aviation viewing park Nimrod replacement talk & visit Aviation viewing park Helicopters accidents in the North Sea (RAeS to cover in February) Visit to Helicopter rig in Blackpool Lecture and facility visit Martin Hyman took an action to make contact Model Aircraft UAV s Maintenance Aircraft ducting Aircraft de-icing Aerodynamics Warton Wind Tunnel Tour Hawk hook on AC carriers Hawk systems into a new airframe F35 Aircraft Carrier operations Hot Air Balloon lecture possibly combined with Balloon Festival Hand Glider Material Visit to Woodford Aviation Museum - once open Woodford Flight Simulator Oxford Aviation Page 9 of 10
Appendix 4 RAeS 2016 Draft Programme for information only Date Title Speaker 13th Jan Large Model Aircraft Mike Conlin 10th Feb Bombing the Skoda Works Peter Cunliffe 17th Feb UK Apaches at Home and Away Neale Moss/Lt.Col David Amlott 9th Mar Sir Freddy Page Lecture 13th Apr History of BAE 11th May Mark Bowman Talk Mark Bowman 8th June Drew Steele Talk Drew Steele 14th Sept PO2 testing/tornado Development Dave Williams/Dave Ward 12th Oct History of RAeS and The Frank Roe Bill Tyack 9th Nov Flight Testing A380 14th Dec Flight Testing at Boscombe Down John Bradley Airships/Airships Website (Steve Fishwicks Idea) Bob Burton? Page 10 of 10