AUDIO: RICHARD THOMPSON, CHIEF EXECUTIVE, AIRBUS MILITARY speaks at the Society for the 2012 Sopwith Named Lecture. Thanks to Airbus Military for supporting the event.
An audio presentation from a live talk given by Boeing Commercial Airplanes President and CEO James F. Albaugh at the Society for the 2011 Sopwith Named Lecture.
An audio presentation from a live talk given by Mikhail Pogosyan at the Royal Aeronautical Society for the annual Sopwith Named Lecture in July 2008.
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This lecture was established in 1990 to honour Sir Thomas Sopwith CBE, Hon FRAeS. In the years prior to World War I, Sopwith became England’s premier aviator and established the first authoritative test pilot school in the world, he also founded England’s first major flight school. Between 1912 and 1920 Sopwith’s Company produced over 16,000 aircraft of 60 types.