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…
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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.
18: Hurricane: Unsung Hero with Rebecca Greenwood Harding
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
17: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver: The Bridgebusters – Joseph Heller, Catch-22 and the 57th Bomb Wing
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
15: John Lancaster: The Great Air Race
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.
14: Joe Wilding: The Future of Aviation: Part 2 – The Shape of the Future
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.
13: Joe Wilding: The Future of Aviation: Part 1 – Powering the Future
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.
12: Stephen Walker: Beyond – The Chief Designer, The Misfit and The Lost Cosmonauts
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.
11: David O’Keefe and Wayne Abbott: Finding Challenger
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.