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.
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.
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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