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Check-in Confessions, Part One
Over their careers, airline pilots, and doctors come to that, will have stayed in a myriad of loggings during their overnight stays and the vast majo…
5 years ago
The Baby Killers
It was the 19th of January 1915 and the people of the English towns of Great Yarmouth and King’s Lynn were woken by an eerie throbbing sound from abo…
5 years, 1 month ago
Sweet Retirement
Lieutenant Colonel Rob Sweet, after a 33 year career flying the Warthog, completed his final flight on the 5th of June 2021 at Moody Air Force Base, …
5 years, 1 month ago
RAF Form 414 Vol 11
Another foray into the log book as the Old Pilot starts work as a Qualified Flying Instructor at No 4 Flying Training School, RAF Valley.
Another c…
5 years, 1 month ago
Flying all the Fours
Looking back on the final years of the second world war its easy to forget that nobody knew quite when the conflict would end. Many aircraft were con…
5 years, 1 month ago
Coca Able Peter Tokio, Nan Item Canada King… Revisited!
A favourite old tale of the checkered history that brought about the Phonetic Alphabet and Op Brevity Code… retold.
A early radio
Send three and fo…
5 years, 1 month ago
Mutiny
Air Law is something that all pilots must have some knowledge of or they wouldn’t be awarded a licence or certificate… it’s required knowledge. Havin…
5 years, 2 months ago
Leaving Them Behind
The Vulcan bomber only had ejector seats for the two pilots… the rear crew made do with an escape slide, a level if inequality that killed many and r…
5 years, 2 months ago
Jet Noise, The Sound Of…
The noise of flying machines can be a source of joy or annoyance. Let’s have a look at what makes that noise and how much progress has been made over…
5 years, 2 months ago
The S to Z of Aviation
The final few letters of a look at aviation through the alphabet.
A model of the original Flettner 282 Helicopter
Flettner helicopters have the u…
5 years, 2 months ago