The Hurricane: Unsung Hero exhibition at IWM Duxford brings together half of the world’s airworthy Hawker Hurricanes. Boney took Matt Willis to Cambridgeshire to chat about the exhibition with the IWM’s Head of Technical Objects, Rebecca Greenwood Harding
Historian Thomas McKelvey Cleaver joins us to discuss his book The Bridgebuster, which is finally getting a UK release, and chat about Joseph Heller’s experiences with the 57th Bomb Wing and how they influenced Catch-22
In 1919, the forerunner to the United States Air Force, the Air Service, staged an audacious transcontinental air race. Join us as author John Lancaster tells us all about The Great Air Race.
In Part 2 of our look into the Future of Aviation with aerospace engineer Joe Wilding we look at how the shape of the aircraft we fly will change as we switch to new power sources.
Aerospace engineer Joe Wilding joins us for an in-depth chat about the Future of Aviation. In Part 1, we look at the issues aviation is facing today and what the various potential power sources of the future may bring and shape how we fly.
Documentary filmmaker and author Stephen Walker joins us to discuss his book Beyond about Yuri Gagarin, the Chief Designer Sergei Korolev, and we look at one of the men who didn’t make the cut along with the myth of the Lost Cosmonauts.
This week I am joined by historian David O’Keefe and filmmaker and historical investigator Wayne Abbott, two of the members of the team that recently found a section of Space Shuttle Challenger during their search of the Bermuda Triangle.
Join us as Moorabin Air Museum’s general manager, Ewan McArthur takes on a tour of the Australian aviation museum and shows us some of the treasures it holds, including their stunning Bristol Beaufighter.
The Fairey Swordfish was an aircraft out of time. Obsolete by the time it was called upon in the Second World War, it was an aircraft of contradictions. Joining me today is author and historian Matthew Willis whose new book on the Swordfish looks to delve
Jesse L. Brown was the US Navy’s first African-American Naval Aviator and his wingman Thomas Hudner Jr. struck up a remarkable friendship that would lead to the tragic, heroic events of the 4th December 1950. The EAA’s Chris Henry joins us to tell their t