Inauguration of the Royal Aeronautical Society Hamburg Branch
The Hamburg Branch held
its inaugural lecture evening
on 19 October [2005]. The event took
place at the British Consulate
by kind permission of Her
Majesty’s Consul-General, Tim
Collard. A cocktail reception
sponsored by Airbus
Deutschland followed lectures
by Capt Claus Cordes on
‘Heinkel meets Rolls-Royce’,
and Capt David Rowland on
‘Concorde — an Aerospace
Success Story’. Sir Colin Terry
and Hamburg Branch
Chairman, Dr Hans Altfeld, also
addressed the audience of 90
invited guests. The attendance
list illustrated the great depth
and diversity of the aerospace
community in Hamburg with
numerous organisations and
no fewer than 11 different
nationalities represented at
the event.
Source: David Marshall (Chairman, External Affairs Board, RAeS): External Affairs Board.
In: Royal Aeronautical Society: Annual Review 2005, April 2006