1978 autumn meeting
15th September 1978, Newcastle
Bad weather, monsoon conditions with winds gusting over 30 knots, caused the propsed navigation competition to be cancelled. Karl-Heinz Schmidt arrived "out of the blue" from Cologne after the welcoming committee had disbanded. A party visited Alnwick Castle, where the Walt Disney film "The Spaceman and King Arthur" was being filmed. Mary and Johnny Smith flew over fairly low, necessitating the reshooting of one scene. Excellent dinner at the Airport Hotel (all the meals there were first class) with a humorous account after dinner of his private flying by Mauric Hallett. The Sunday morning lecture by Mike Somerton-Rayner on his flight to Australia in an Auster had to be cancelled because his wife had been taken ill, but David Reader provided a NASA film instead. The form that representation of AMEs might take figured largely in the deliberations at the AGM. Members were cautious about any political involvement. Occupational Therapists who fly were deemed to be eligible for full membership.
