WRAeS Talk: Vickers Experimental Aircraft of WW2
- Entry donation £5 per person. Card payment at the door.
- Evening talk in The Clubhouse at Brooklands Museum
- Doors open 5.30pm / Talk starts 6.45pm
- Campbell Gate Entrance
Tony Butler tells the story of two lesser known Weybridge / Foxwarren built aircraft, the Vickers Windsor and the Vickers Type 432.
The Vickers Windsor was a four-engined high altitude heavy bomber that initial designs included a pressurised cabin for flight exceeding 30,000 Ft. The Vickers Type 432 was Vickers answer to a 1939 requirement for a cannon armed fighter to combat high flying Junkers bombers which appeared early in the war. The threat never materialised so the 432 never went into production.
About the speaker
For twenty years Tony Buttler worked as a metallurgist at High Duty Alloys analysing and testing aluminium and titanium forgings manufactured for aircraft and defence equipment. It was during this period, working in the aircraft industry, that his deep interest in military aircraft was established. In 1994 he took a Masters Degree in Information Science and Archives at Loughborough University, and since 1996 he has been a full-time aviation historian and author.
He has written 43 major books, numerous titles in the Warpaint series of modeller’s books and well over a hundred articles for all of the important historical aviation magazines. He also presents lectures to branches of the Royal Aeronautical Society and to other aviation bodies and groups. His foremost area of interest and research has always been the design and development of military aircraft covering the period from the mid-1930s to the 1980s. In 2017, Buttler became a member of the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Historical Group Committee, and in November 2022 he received the Society’s Aeronautical Heritage Specialist Group Award for that year in recognition of his contribution to aviation history.
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Meetings are held in the Brooklands Museum Clubhouse.
The Brooklands Club Members bar is open to use from 5:30pm – please use card payment for drinks. Food can also be ordered from the Bar and will be served from 5:45pm.
All are welcome (RAeS membership is not required). There is an entry donation of £5.00 (please use card payment) at the door. This donation is not expected from those under the age of 21 or holders of a current Student Union card.
Certificates of Attendance for C.Eng or CPD purposes are available on request.
Entry is via Campbell Gate only, Brooklands Road, KT13 0QN from 5.30pm.
