Lord Brabazon of Tara, the first man to hold a Royal Aero Club pilots’ licence and one of the great characters of the first 50 years of powered flight, gives a masterclass on how to put together an after-dinner speech, all be it at the expense of his proposer and his hosts.

Lord Brabazon of Tara was giving an after-dinner speech at his 80th Birthday Dinner organised by the Royal Aero Club, February 1964. The toast was proposed by HRH the Duke of Edinburgh, edited by Eur Ing Mike Stanberry FRAeS and it was digitised thanks to a grant from the Royal Aeronautical Society Foundation.