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Its been a busy few weeks for the TPN, first off  we had an excellent seminar on ‘Addressing Ageing Aircraft Sustainment Issues’ on 26 October 2016.  Air Marshal Julian Young was the keynote speaker and we’ll be publishing the link soon to the presentations that were filmed for IET.tv soon, so if you weren’t able to come along then you’ll have an opportunity to listen to some excellent speakers.  Following the event I took the opportunity to have a catch-up and record a short podcast with Kevin ‘Taff’ Stone from the Vulcan project.  Since then I've recorded a couple of additional podcasts with Steve Reed from DTSL which you can listen to here for the first one and the second one here.

 

Lee Murton, Chairman of our Young Professionals group recently attended an International Cross Safety Conference over in Amsterdam and has captured some content by way of podcasts and a blog for our Aerospace group area which we’ll publicise in this area in our next blog.  David Lindley, TPN Chairman was one of the keynote speakers at the event which was organised by the Aviation Academy, Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

 

On 14 November we had an evening seminar over at Rolls Royce in Derby on ‘Winning at Concurrent Product Development’ hosted by Jonathan Watson, Aerospace Executive team member, who was joined by two additional speakers.  We weren’t able to film on this occasion but Jonathan will be posting a blog in due course.

 

We also recently had an Aerospace Executive team meeting hosted by Andy Mills one of our volunteers who works for University of Sheffield.  We had an excellent opportunity to explore the Diamond Centre at the University which is certainly an impressive building both inside and out.  We’ve been revising our list of hot topics both current and emerging which we’ll be using to define next session’s business plan. Bob Darby one of our volunteers flew into the meeting again via the nearest airfield.

 

Finally, we’re still looking for new volunteers for the Aerospace Executive Team, specifically either in the airline industry, MoD or serving members of the Armed Forces, so if you’re interested please check out our briefing note here.

 

Lee is also keen to recruit new members from all areas of the Aerospace sector for the Young Professionals group.  I hope to hear from you if you’re interested in any of these vacancies.

 
Deborah-Claire McKenzie

Community Manager, Aerospace Network



 




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Deborah-Claire is a Community Manager at the IET and has a long cherished dream to fly in a Short Sunderland Flying Boat.




 

 
  • Lot of interesting things. Waiting to see the presentation materials.



    Many thanks to Andy Mills for arranging the tour of Diamond centre. We all had a wonderful experience by visiting different labs and the facilities and especially the aerospace lab with modern simulators and clean room facilities. We were also quite surprised to see a very large number of students working at the labs on a Friday evening.



    Looking forward to more of such kind in the future.