Podcast Episodes

The Triangle

I was about to enter the Devil’s Triangle, the Limbo of the Lost, the Twilight Zone or the Hoodoo Sea… more commonly referred to as the Bermuda Trian…

6 years, 3 months ago

The A320

Boeing was the most successful aircraft manufacturing company on the planet but a European consortium thought they could take on the world’s best sel…

6 years, 3 months ago

The Pluck of the Irish

What better day to celebrate the aviators of Ireland than on St Patrick’s Day.  From the crash of Alcock and Brown to a tractor maker and a flying ol…

6 years, 4 months ago

Passing More Gas

The sequel to Passing Gas recalls what it’s actually like to plug into a tanker and take on a fighter pilot’s life blood… fuel!  Of course not every …

6 years, 4 months ago

Passing Gas

The history of Air to Air refuelling and how the systems that we are now familiar with, the boom and the probe & drogue, came into being.

Capt. Low…

6 years, 4 months ago

Goose is Dead

With the prospect of a new movie following the classic Top Gun in the offing, we take a largely ‘tongue in cheek’ look at the F14 and how Maverick go…

6 years, 4 months ago

Buckeye 2

During the Vietnam war, the A6 Intruder was known for making daring, low level attacks in foul conditions and often alone.  As such it had more than …

6 years, 4 months ago

The Things on Your Wings

If you’ve ever looked out onto a wing and wondered what the strange looking blades and plates attached to it are? Then wonder no longer!  An explanat…

6 years, 5 months ago

The Airman’s Cross

Visit the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Stonehenge and you will pass another stone monument.  It’s the Airman’s Cross, placed by his comrades to comm…

6 years, 5 months ago

RAF Form 414 Vol. 6

Fun in the Sun continues with part 2 of my first Air to Air Gunnery camp in Cyprus.  The work has started and now it’s time to become ACE (Allied Com…

6 years, 5 months ago