Please accept my apologies for the long wait since the last formal
Newsletter. We have been putting some materials out on social media,
but we have I admit, been too quiet.
We operate entirely on a volunteer basis, using willing, able and
energetic people who have - good for them, unfortunate for us - many
other claims on their time and energy. We lost out social media expert
for family challenges and our outreach person to career progress - just
two examples. We have however, gained a Chief Engineer, Stephen.
He has been really helpful in many ways, driving a professional
approach into updating the Drawing Register (ensuring they are all
there and all to the appropriate design and standard), updating us on
FMEA (Failure Mode and Effects Analysis) as a structured, proactive
methodology to identify, prioritize, and mitigate potential failures in
products, processes, or systems before they occur. This is in
conjunction with Will who has been bringing his experience in Risk
Assessment when applied to aircraft display
We have managed to update some aspects of the website, but that work is not yet finished. We have also begun a project to reduce our f ixed costs by seeking out better value alternatives. We are also at the very early stages of a conversation with a major investor. But we can’t say more. And it isn’t done until it’s done. VOLUNTEERS Yes, we need contacts, and funding, and profile and-and-and but most of all we need more volunteers to make all these things happen. Although we are a tiny concern, we have many of the same needs as a commercial company (IT & Security, Marketing, Social Media, Financial Control, people to write articles, people to contact corporates and so on.) As we discussed in the last Newsletter, we are not looking for carpenters and builders, our strategy being to outsource this, as do most projects of this type. If you can invest a few hours every month to help drive our endeavour to celebrate and educate the nation by means of a flying reproduction of the 1927 Schneider Trophy winning seaplane in the air by the centenary of Britain’s outright win in 1931 – then email. ian@supermarineseaplane.co.uk