LADIES AND GENTLEMEN,—A number of you may not know our lecturer of this afternoon and I am glad to be able to tell you something of his past experience by way of an introduction

Mr SHAPIRO has had several years of engineering experience and his first aircraft appointment was in France working on the design of gyroscopic instruments, which post was rudely terminated by happenings in 1940 He came to this country and joined Power Jets, working on jet propulsion and then had a further period on aircraft instruments design This was followed by work on electric assister units for aircraft before he joined the Cierva Autogiro Company in 1943 as Senior Technical Officer

Mr SHAPIRO is a Founder Member of our Association, an A F R Ae S and holds an engineering diploma of the Federal Polytechnic in Zurich