Boneyard Safari is one of those outfits I had always followed but never thought I’d get the chance to meet anyone from. Well, the trip to Arizona and the team at The Pima Air and…
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26: Empire Flying Boat to Australia with Phil Vabre
Flying to Australia is a chore today, but 85 years ago, Imperial Airways and Qantas launched an audacious service with the wonderful Shorts C.23 Empire Flying Boat. These aircraft cut the journey from Southampton to…
25: Pauline Gower: Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women with Alison Hill
This week I’m joined by poet and author Alison Hill whose new biography of Pauline Gower, the pilot who would spearhead the Women’s Section of the ATA and ensure her pilots received equal pay for…
24: Flying in Arizona with Tim Amalong
Tim Amalong is the president of Arizona Aero-Tech and Velocity Air, which provides flight training and aviation services out of Ryan Field in Tuscon, Arizona. While I was in Arizona, I got to chat with…
23: Magnificent Women and Flying Machines with Sally Smith
Women have been involved in flight from the earliest moments, yet they have been relegated to the margins in most of our histories. So it was fantastic to read Sally Smith’s book that brings these…
22: The Women Behind the Few with Dr Sarah-Louise Miller
The Women’s Auxillary Air Force has a specific spot in the public’s memory. Either as the headphoned women sat around the RAF’s plotting tables or of Susannah York’s Section Officer Maggie Harvey in the Battle…
21: The Titan Missile Museum with Mike Riggs
The Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley, Arizona, was formally Complex 571-7 of the Titan II ICBM defence system that was active between 1963 and 1987. The museum houses the original silo, crew and control…
20: The Pima Air and Space Museum with Scott Marchand
I’m delighted to announce that the podcast will now be brought to you in association with the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. To kick off this new partnership, I visited the museum…
Bonus: A Little Update
We don’t have a new episode this week as there are things happening! Normal service resumes next week, but there are snippets as to why in this little bonus episode. ★ Support this podcast on…
19: IWM Duxford’s Unsung Heroes with Matthew Willis
As we were at Duxford for last week’s ace chat with Rebecca Greenwood Hard about the hurricane: Unsung Hero exhibition, historian Matt Willis and I decided to have a wander around and celebrate what we feel are some of Duxford’s unsung heroes.