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Britannia Naval Research Association

7th Annual Oxford Naval Symposium

Fly Navy: The First 100 Years of Naval Aviation
Friday 15th and Saturday 16th May 2009

Fly Navy, the 7th BNRA Oxford Naval Symposium, is an associated event of Fly Navy 100
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Friday 15th May 2009 (daytime)
Fleet Air Arm Museum, Yeovilton
Aviation and the Royal Navy
A study day at the FAA Museum looking at the early days of naval aviation,
the development of warships designed for flying-off and landing-on,
and fixed- and rotor-wing aircraft in modern naval strategy.

Registration 10:30 Sessions from 11:00 to 14:30 (free study)
Entry by prior booking only. Inclusive Ticket at £27 includes buffet luncheon
and coach from and returning to Oxford; study sessions and lunch only ticket £18.
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Friday 15th May 2009 (evening) - Symposium Reception

Norrington Room, Blackwell’s Bookshop, Broad Street, Oxford
Speaker : Capt. Peter Hore RN, naval historian and author - The Sydney-Kormoran Affair
Opens 18:00 Speaker 19:00 Reception ends 21.00
Entry free by ticket – prior booking essential

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Saturday 16th May 2009
St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Symposium Forenoon and Afternoon Sessions

Guest of Honour :
Captain Neils Sørensen RVM, Danish Defence Attaché to London
Papers include :
Seaplane Lighter H21:the Birth of the Aircraft Carrier?
United States Naval Air Service in Ireland 1917
Kitty Hawk to a Covered Wagon: USS Langley; Naval Aviation Inter-War Years
The Graf Zeppelin: Nazi Germany’s Stillborn Carrier
Danish Naval Rotary-Wing Operations
North Atlantic Naval Air War 1941-43;
Pacific Theatre Carrier Warfare: the Last Naval VC
Developments in Naval Aviation by Captain Eric Brown CBE DFC AFC RN
The Royal Navy’s Future Carrier Force.

Keynote Speaker :
Captain Jock Alexander RN, Deputy Assistant Chief Carrier Strike Force

For ticket prices, event bookings or further information please email :
ONS09@britannia-naval-research-association.org

Registration 09:15 Forenoon Sessions 10:00 Luncheon 13:00
Afternoon Sessions 14:00 Symposium closes 17:15

Full Saturday Conference including luncheon, wine and mid-session refreshments £35.00
Afternoon Sessions only ticket £15.00

Attendance at all events by prior booking only.
To book or for further information please

telephone the BNRA Vice Chairman, John Wain on +44 (0) 7790 928 825 or email :
ons09@britannia-naval-research-association.org

BOOKING FORM

Proposed Detailed Programme for ONS2009

‘Fly Navy, The First 100 Years of Naval Aviation’

0915 Registration (coffee in the foyer)

1000 ONS 2009 Opening Remarks Dr Vaughan Michell

1005 Introduction to the 7th Oxford Conference - Forenoon Session
Keith Bennett

1010 Early developments in aircraft-carrying warships David Morris

1040 US Naval Air Service Seaplanes in Ireland 1917 Chris Lentzy

1110 USS Langley CV-1 Dr Alan Flanders
1140 Stand Easy (refreshments in the foyer)

1200 Naval Aviation in the Inter-War Years Graham Mottram

1230 The German naval air arm Nick Hewitt

1300 Luncheon (buffet lunch and wine in the foyer)

1355 Introduction to the Guest of Honour Dr Vaughan Michell

1400 Danish Naval Rotor-wing Operations Captain Neils Sørensen

1425 Introduction to the Afternoon Session Keith Bennett
1430 Closing the Gap: Naval Air Ops in the Western Approaches WWII Dr Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones

1510 Pacific Theatre: Hampton Gray, last naval VC Captain N. Jolin

1540 Stand Easy (refreshments in the Foyer)

1600 Launch & Recovery: Major Developments in Naval Aviation Captain Eric Brown

1630 The Future Carrier Strike Force Captain Jock Alexander

1700 ONS 2010 & the Way Ahead John Wain

1705 Formal Close of ONS 2009 Dr Vaughan Michell