Orkney Aviation Festival 2022
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 at the art and design of aircraft as
Embers into Sparx
A spring and early summertime series of ideas and inspiration is on the way as Orkney International Science Festival warms up ahead of this year’s events in September. This year the Festival will have a new hybrid format, with a mix of events indoors and outdoors and online, and it’s setting the scene for its fresh look with six
Celebrating Scapa Flow
New stories from Scapa Flow, in wartime and in peace, are highlighted in this year’s programme of events for Celebrating Scapa Flow. Each year in May, aspects of the great naval anchorage are featured in events brought together by AOP (Another Orkney Production), the group behind the annual Orkney Aviation Festival and a range of other activities. The Scapa
ORKNEY AVIATION FESTIVAL 2021
Orkney Aviation Festival this year spans past, present and future. The opening day (Thursday 9 September) reports on a new project making Kirkwall airport a testbed for new developments in aviation that can cut carbon emissions. Flights with an electric-hybrid aircraft are already under way, with more to follow, along with hydrogen-fuelled flights and island deliveries with unmanned aircraft.
Remembering HMS Hood
On May 21st it will be exactly 80 years since HMS sailed from Scapa Flow on her final voyage. Three days later she was sunk by the Bismarck in a sequence of events that led to the end of the great German battleship as well. The Hood was so renowned that her loss was a
ORKNEY AVIATION FESTIVAL 2020
Orkney Aviation Festival takes place this year online with three talks on Thursday 10 September. Orkney has played a significant role in aviation history, through two world wars and the peacetime transport needs of a scattered island group.
