This year’s Aviation Festival looks back at one of the most daring pioneer flights – the first flight across the North Sea in 1914 by the Norwegian Trygve Gran. It looks back too at the crucial moment in April 1940 when the skies over Orkney had European significance. It looks widely
A science festival has a radical role in developing a creative climate for a region. Here is the story of how it began, and how Orkney was involved from an early stage in the concept.