On June 9th Karl Smith gave an illustrated Zoom talk to the Association which was his personal view of the development of aviation. In a period spanning over 62 years Karl worked in a number of posts for several firms in the aircraft industry. Before that his family had been involved in aviation from its very earliest years so between them in an uninterrupted period up to 2013 they covered just a few years short of a century in aviation. Karl was born in Carshalton, brought up and educated in Croydon where he later learned to fly. He worked for 2½ years in the Installations Department of HAL Kingston.
    His talk began with the myth, legend and history of aviation before summarising how in the next 100 years the early weird and wonderful devices evolved into practical flying machines. Karl’s informative talk covered the topics of fuel