ORKNEY AVIATION FESTIVAL 2024 12th – 14th September

Thursday 12th. 2.00pm-4.30pm – King Street Hall

Sate Open Day

Sustainable Aviation Test Enterprise.

Come and meet the people from the Hangar at the end of the Kirkwall Airport runway – Drop by and find out about the cutting edge work they do to improve aviation for a better future. Learn about job opportunities in this exciting field of research and innovation. Participants include SATE, Cranfield Aerospace, HIAL, Hybrid Air Vehicles, Windracers. Includes stalls, exhibitions and films.

Admission free

Thursday 12th. 7.30pm – King Street Hall

The Future of Aviation and Ways to Make it Work

SATE and its Partners offer their thoughts and ideas followed by a panel discussion. Come and ask questions and hear how the future of flying will look

Admission £7 (£5) includes refreshments

Friday 13th – 7.30pm

Aviation Past Present and Future

Speaker: Iain Hutchison

Future Flight How we can fly in a climate crisis

Speaker: Neil Kermode EMEC

Admission £7 (£5) includes refreshments

Saturday 14th. – 3.00pm Live on OISF You Tube Channel

The Vital Role of the Aircraft of MHS Tern in World War 2

Speaker: Commander David Hobbs MBE RN (Retired)

Saturday 14th. – 7.30pm

Radar and the Air Defence System in Scotland 1938 – 46

Speaker: Ian Brown, Curator, National Museum of Flight.

Touchdown Scapa Flow 1924

The Centenary of the First Round the World Flight

Speaker: Robert Foden

Admission £7 (£5) includes refreshments

ORKNEY AVIATION FESTIVAL EXTRA

Tuesday 1st. October – 7.30pm King St Hall

The Other John Rae

Professor Andrew Rae (UHI) tells the story of his grandfather of one of the pioneering pilots of 1930s Scottish civil aviation, who worked for Highland Airways.

Admission £7 (£5) includes refreshments and a free dram tasting, courtesy of Highland Park Distillery.

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