Paul Crickmore has been chronicling the story of the Lockheed Blackbird family of aircraft, the A-12, YF-12 and SR71, for over 35 years. Paul has had incredible access to the designers, maintainers and pilots of…
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51: Aerobatics with Mélanie Astles
Mélanie Astles is a remarkable aerobatics pilot, is also the only woman to have won a Red Bull Air Race event at Indianapolis in 2017 and has just placed 5th at the World Advanced Aerobatic…
50: What the IX Troop Carrier Command Did Next with Adam Berry
Following their eventful dropping of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions on D-Day, the IX Troop Carrier Command’s C-47s were not ideal. Historian Adam Berry joins us to discuss the resupply operations in Normandy, the…
49: Was The Bristol Blenheim Really That Bad with James Jefferies
Friend of the show, historian James Jefferies joins us to discuss the much maligned Bristol Blenheim. When the aircraft was developed, the Blenheim was faster than the RAF’s latest fighters. But, come the outbreak of…
48: Fly Girls with Keith O’Brien
Amelia Earhart looms large in aviation history, but she was one of a cohort of incredible female flyers in 1920s America who fought hard to break the mould and show that they could out-fly and…
47: his Majesty’s Airship with S.C. Gwynne
The R101 was the great hope for Imperial Air Travel in late 1920s Britain. The brainchild of Christopher Birdwood Thomson and the Imperial Airship Scheme, R101 was the government-backed of the two grand airships, the…
46: Mosquito with Rowland White
On Wednesday 21st March 1945, the RAF’s 140 Wing of De Havilland Mosquito FB.VI fighter bombers, with an escort of Mustangs, attacked the Shellhus in Copenhagen, Denmark. The Shellhus was the HQ for the Gestapo…
45: ‘Pegs’ the Two-Seat Hawker Hurricane with Hurricane Heritage
Hurricane Heritage has the incredible job of operating the world’s only two-seat Hawker Hurricane, BE505 ‘Pegs’. Starting life as a Canadian Car and Foundry-built Mark XII with the RCAF serial AG287, the aircraft was converted…
44: 100 Years of Civil Aviation with Ben Skipper
Civil aviation is a vast undertaking and one that kept me in and out of trouble for 20 years of my working life. Author Ben Skipper has taken on the task of looking at the…
43: The RAF Museum with CEO Maggie Appleton
The RAF Museum sites at Hendon in London and RAF Cosford in the Midlands are home to a collection that tells the century-old story of the RAF. It is where my obsession with the Hawker…