One of the most remarkable, successful and useful of the Society's activities during the second World War was a series of weekend conferences called to discuss problems arising directly out of the War. To the greater number of members of the Society these valuable conferences and their scope are unknown for they were all highly secret.

All the theories of air strategy and tactics and actual combat and bombing and reconnaissance and the rest of it, only put to the test in peacetime manoeuvres, were now being tried out under the bitter stress of war.