Introducing Captain FAY, MR FITZWILLIAMS said it would be generally agreed, that very few people, if any, in the world were better able to discuss the subject The lecturer held the rank of Captain in British European Airways, and had served with the Helicopter Unit of the B E A since its inception in 1947, when it was based on Yeovil, and when the Chairman had had the pleasure of meeting him and his colleagues The activities of that Unit had covered a very wide range of helicopter operation, including an intensive pioneering effort in helicopter blind flying

As a Fleet Air Arm pilot he had learned to fly in 1940, and had served for two years in H M S “Victorious” Afterwards he had joined the Naval Service Trials Unit, and was converted to helicopters at the first helicopter training course in this country, at Hanworth, in 1944