The CHAIRMAN, in introducing the Author, expressed pleasure in welcoming Mr NISBET who was a Founder Member of the Association and an Associate Fellow of The Royal Aeronautical Society

Mr Nisbet was educated at Glasgow Academy and the Royal Technical College, Glasgow He joined G & J Weir, at Cathcart, in 1936, as an apprentice and was engaged in the early development work on Autogiros and the first helicopters in this country He was for a short period Assistant Ground Engineer at Scottish Aviation, and for a further short period he was engaged as a junior draughtsman with Mr Hafner in the AR III Construction Company

The design problem of a Helicopter Station in the Central London area was set to thirty students in their final year at the Department of Architecture, University College, London, in the Lent Term of the session 1955-56 The architectural problem posed by the provision of the very large area of landing space required under present operational conditions, with its attendant problems of the ground and air approaches and the use of the covered space provided by the flight platform, was one well worthy of study The design of such a massive building as this entails, to fit comfortably in the relatively small scale of present day London, poses a considerable architectural problem, to which as yet no entirely satisfactory solutions have been offered