An All-Day Symposium on “Management Studies in the Field of Aeronautics,” held in the Lecture Theatre on 22nd February 1967, was the inaugural meeting of the Society’s Management Studies Group.

The programme was arranged in four sessions, each session beginning with a short introductory paper; each session was followed by a discussion.

The Chairman of the Steering Committee, Mr. G. S. Henson, summed up the day’s proceedings and he has also summarised the discussions, for ease of reading and to speed up publication.

The Symposium was opened by the President of the Society, Mr. A. D. Baxter, MEng, CEng, FRAeS, who began by welcoming the large audience. Both he and the Council believed that this was an important occasion. The establishment of the Group had been timely; it showed that the Society had not been mesmerised by the emphasis in the past year on the Centenary and on past achievements. In fact, he believed the Group might be the pacemaker for the new century for the advances which “he was sure the Society would make in many fields. It would show the way the Society was thinking and leading, not only in Aviation but in many associated fields. This he thought, was also indicated by the fact that already the Council had put two problems which had been exercising it to the Steering Group and had asked for advice. No doubt in the future more problems would come to this Group. This Symposium was being introduced entirely by members of the Steering Committee.

He wished success to this inaugural meeting and hoped that the Group would flourish.

The President then called on Mr. G. S. Henson, Chairman of the Steering Committee.