Executive Committee 2024

Allan Winn - Chairman

Allan Winn

Allan Winn spent 29 years in publishing, culminating in 14 years as Editor, and then Publisher, of Flight International. He was Director & CEO of Brooklands Museum from 2003 to 2018, and is now a Vice-President there. Major developments in his time at Brooklands Museum included the acquisition and restoration of Concorde G-BBDG and of the world’s only working Concorde Flight Simulator; the restorations of the Stratosphere Chamber high-altitude research facility; and the £9 million Heritage Lottery Funded Brooklands Aircraft Factory & Race Track Revival Project. Allan joined the Executive Committee of AHUK in 2019, and also chairs the Heritage Working Group of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Aviation. He is a Liveryman of the Honourable Company of Air Pilots and Editor of its magazine Air Pilot, and is a Fellow (President of the Weybridge Branch) of the Royal Aeronautical Society.

David Bradley

Born in Sale, Cheshire. Age 4 discovered his fathers wartime aircraft identification books. Aircraft spotter early teens. Undergraduate apprenticeship Vickers Weybridge 1960-65. Aeronautics Degree - Imperial College. 1965 Weybridge Military Projects, then Civil Future Projects. Built wings & restored WW1 rotary engine to flight standard for Vickers Gunbus replica - flew 1966. Built wings & engine supports for Vickers Vimy replica – flew 1969 & flew to Paris Air Show. 1977 joined multinational JET team at Weybridge for development of future Airbus A320. 1984 Joined new A320 team at Filton as Assistant Project Manager A320 UK. 1990 Appointed UK A320 Project Manager. 1994 Appointed UK Project Manager A400M in development phase. 2005 Retired from Airbus Filton. 2006 Joined BACT at Filton - started Bolingbroke restoration. Bought Bristol Freighter in New Zealand for return to UK. Currently restoring Bolingbroke & Freighter at Aerospace Bristol. Visited many Aircraft Museums around the World & UK.

Peter Davison

Over 25 years at the London Science Museum, as a designer and later Assistant Curator, Aeronautics nurtured a lifelong interest in aviation. Peter is a long term Associate Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society serving on various Committees linked to Heritage and Awards. A Trustee of the Russian Aviation Research Trust and, more recently, Air-Britain, he maintains contact in both civil and military domains. A ten-year research project into the R101 airship disaster of 1930 led to lectures and published works as Curatorial Advisor to the airship Heritage Trust and the creation of a related archive at the Brooklands Museum. He has co-authored nine books and is occasionally published, still regularly in The Airship Historian. Widely travelled he hopes these numerous affiliations bring benefit to all these organisations.

Mike Eastman

Mike started as an apprentice in 1969 with Hawker Siddeley Aviation at the old Avro Lancaster Factory at Woodford. He got hi first aircraft, an Auster J1N in 1971 followed very shortly after by a Vampire T11, both still exist. Since then he has been involved with the restoration of many types from WW1 and WW2 right up to 1960's and 1970's jets. Mike has helped to to form a number of museums including the Malta Aviation Museum.

Paul Hartrup

Paul has been involved in aviation heritage for over 30 years primary with the Vulcan Restoration Trust as a Trustee for over 20 years and part of the Engineering and Fundraising Teams since 1995, operating Avro Vulcan XL426 at London Southend Airport which can high speed taxy. Joining the Executive of the British Aviation Preservation Council in 2010 which became AHUK. Outside volunteering Paul has worked in Worldwide Courier Logistics for over 25 years starting in Operations and then Compliance covering Health and Safety, Quality, Security and Fleet management. He is a member of IOSH – the Institution of Occupational Safety and Health.

Edward Sharman

Edward Sharman is the Head of Development at the RAF Museum. With a career of over 15 years in the military and aviation community, Edward has held roles with Invictus UK, the RAF Benevolent Fund and many more military charities. Edward has a passion for aviation history.

Bob Sloan

I’m Bob Sloan, I work in engineering procurement and I’m a director and deputy curator at Dumfries & Galloway Aviation Museum. I started at the museum when I was twelve, so aircraft and museums have been a lifelong passion. While I can always bury myself in the aircraft, objects and stories at the museum I spend more of my time focussing on sustainability, commercial and external fundraising, site development, new displays and improving the visitor and volunteer experience. When I’m not at the museum I restore classic cars and work on my own Chipmunk and Auster projects, and occasionally spend time with my extremely tolerant wife!

Julian Temple

Julian Temple is an accomplished historian, industrial archaeologist and manager in the aviation heritage world. A member of the Airfield Research Group since 1977, co-founded the Berkshire Aviation Group in1982 and subsequently helped instigate the Museum of Berkshire Aviation. With a book on Woodley Aerodrome published in 1987, he worked at Brooklands Museum from 1986-2020 (including 20 years as aviation curator) and joined The Aviation Historian's editorial board in 2012. Attending BAPC/AHUK members' meetings for over 40 years, he joined AHUK's Executive Committee in 2020 (specialising in historic aviation sites) and is a BAE Systems Heritage archivist at Farnborough.