Podcast Episodes

RAF Form 414, Volume 39

With the influx of new Airbus airframes, Virgin needed more pilots and not just to occupy the right hand seat… there were opportunities for promotion…

1 day, 3 hours ago

RAF Form 414, Volume 38

And my heart went!  Thump, thump, thump; thump, thump!

I was lying in the King Edward the 7th hospital imagining Phil Collins playing drums on my hea…

2 days, 22 hours ago

Basam Aggad Interview

We last spoke to Basam when he was doing his Jet Upset Training but now that he has his dream job it was appropriate that we should chat again on one…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

RAF Form 414, Volume 36

A flock of seagulls had chosen that moment to break ground from the grass beside the runway and fly across our path. They disappeared under the nose …

2 months, 3 weeks ago

RAF Form 414, Volume 37

The next tale from my RAF Logbook, albeit now being filled with civilian flights for Virgin Atlantic Airways…

A Virgin A340-300 going round the che…

4 months ago

Fast Jets on the Front Line, Part 2

The second part of an interview with Alan Munro, retired RAF pilot and Cold War warrior, where we talk about his book… Fast Jets on the Front Line.

A…

4 months ago

Fast Jets on the Front Line

In this tale we listen to part of an interview with author Alan Munro who talks about his recent book, Fast Jets on the Front Line.

Interviewing Al…

5 months, 2 weeks ago

What’s in a Name?

A tale that might have been forgotten but here it is from APG670!

This tale isn’t about me operating into the massive aviation hub of Chicago O’Hare …

5 months, 2 weeks ago

RAF Form 414, Vol 35

Delving into my log book yet again I recall thatI had flown a couple of supernumerary trips to John F Kennedy airport in New York, sitting in the bac…

11 months ago

Sabotage

From the French word saboter, sabotage refers to the act of bungling, botching or wrecking something, particularly for political or military aims.  I…

1 year, 1 month ago