MHAS would like to invite you to come along and visit the Control Tower Museum as we open in 2025.

In place of our usual monthly talk, August sees a Society visit to the "Great War Huts" - a fantastic and interesting First World War Visitor Centre providing an insight into how soldiers lived and worked via the restoration and preservation of a number of original First World War Barrack Huts giving access to original artefacts and hands-on exhibits as well as talks by subject matter experts. The site includes a large trench system, accurately recreated to provide a true experience of the conditions.

With the months already flying by, MHAS is pleased to announce our Open Day for 2025 - 'The MHAS Showcase Event' in early September.

We look forward to welcoming Richard Folkes OBE in October to give us an insight into his role and experiences of managing the helicopter scenes in the Bond movie ‘Skyfall’ & the famous arrival of the Queen at the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony! We're sure it will be a fascinating evening.

As a new venture into providing interesting and informative films, MHAS will be showing a film produced by the renowned TV and Film maker, Tim Curtis, with a real local interest about the alleged German invasion attempt in the 2nd World War. We'll be including an Q&A at the end so we can really look into what has always been a mystery on our doorstep!

Next month sees us welcome Stuart Yule, MSc CEng FRAeS, a Business Technical Specialist with Rolls Royce, to give us a very topical and interesting insight into the future of aircraft engines and associated technology, as the industry drives forward the agenda to make aviation more sustainable. It's sure to be an fascinating evening, so please come and join us!

Lest we forget.... We welcome everyone to attend our Service of Remembrance at the Barrack Square at Martlesham Heath on Sunday 9th November. Please join us on this special occasion.

As we move into the winter months, December sees us welcoming Richard Mann to take a light hearted look at some of the more interesting attempts in human endeavours to fly in his talk 'Up in the Air'. We look forward to seeing you there...

2026 will soon be upon us, and MHAS is pleased to welcome back Chris Turland to the Community Centre on Friday 2nd January to tell us about the story of the key roles performed by women in aviation and its development during the 20th Century. Please come along and join us!