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Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day

Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day

Today, we are celebrating International Women in Engineering Day, this will be the 9th year and the focus is on the inventors and innovators working in the engineering industry #ImagineTheFuture.

We are proud of all our engineers across RAF Brize Norton and appreciate the crucial role they play within Air Mobility.

Pictured below, is Corporal Hayley Woodhall, engineer and co-founder of Project PICASSO (formerly known as the Bioprocessing Project), presenting Project PICASSO at our recent high-profile visits.

Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day - Corporal Haley Woodhall

Hayley said:

“My inspiration to become an engineer (apart from my family) was Sir Michael Foale who was selected as one of the first British Astronauts to qualify as a mission specialist with NASA in 1987. As a child I watched him go into space and carry out spacewalks. I completed a National Diploma in Aeronautical Engineering and the next best thing to going into space was joining the Royal Air Force. I’ve enjoyed every second of my career and I would like to encourage the next generation and hopefully attract more female engineers into the Royal Air Force.”

Corporal Hayley Woodhall
Co-Founder of Project PICASSO

Pictured below, is Chief Technician Sophie Hobson, an Avionics specialist, serving on the C-130J Special Projects Team.

Celebrating International Women in Engineering Day - Chief Technician Sophie Hobson

Sophie said:

"I chose to become an engineer because I had always been intrigued to know how stuff worked as a kid.  My Dad was an awesome all-round engineer who was always fixing various things around the house, and I was always his little helper.  I was never in doubt about what I wanted to be when I grew up, an engineer.  So, I completed an engineering course at college and then joined the RAF."

Chief Technician Sophie Hobson
C-130J Special Projects Team

 

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