🛩️Welcome to part 2 of our tour of the Beechcraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma, Tennessee, with Museum President, Charles Parish. In this episode we look into Beechcraft’s WW2 aircraft like the venerablke AT-11 and bring…
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105: Beechcraft Heritage Museum Tour – Part 1
🛩️The Beechcraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma, Tennessee, is my new favourite aircraft museum in the world. The museum is dedicated to the story of the Beechcraft and Travel Air brands and the incredible couple that…
104: National Museum of the Marine Corps Tour
Just down the road from Washington, DC, is the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia Triangle. Here, they tell the story of The Corps, from its founding to its future. Dr Larry Burke…
103: Caring for Space Shuttle Discovery
Dr. Jennifer Levasseur, the Space Shuttle and International Space Station curator at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, joins us for a walkaround Space Shuttle Discovery in her home at the National Air and…
102: Conserving Aerospace History At the National Air and Space Museum
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101: A Wander Around The Udvar-Hazy Center
The Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center is the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum (NASM)’s annex at Dulles International Airport in Washington, DC. To call it an annex is misleading, this place is massive! Home to…
100: Our 100th Episode at the National Air and Space Museum
Here it is, our 100th Episode! And the first under the new name! In February, my daughter and I headed to the USA and visited several aviation museums to celebrate reaching our 100th episode. So…
Welcome to The Aviation Show
We are re-branding and broadening out! The Damcasters is no more, welcome to The Aviation Show. This video explains why I’ve changed the name and we also have a sneak preview of our #CentennialSeries of…
99: The Cartoonist of Stalag Luft III
🛫Ben Smotherman was a B-17 pilot who was shot down on his 7th mission over occupied Europe in 1943. He was captured and ended up in the POW camp Stalag Luft III. While he was…
98: Sabotage! The Death of General Sikorski
This week, we examine the mysterious crash of the Consolidated B-24 Liberator AL-523 on July 4, 1943, which claimed the life of General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the Polish Prime Minister in Exile. Chris Wroblewski and Garth…