Podcast Episodes

The Widow Makers

Widow Maker is an epitaph attached to aircraft that present a particular risk to the life of the pilot. Many times this name is inappropriately used …

7 years, 6 months ago

Bathtubs, Potatoes, Shoes and Flatirons

There are some sleek and elegant aircraft out there and some pretty ugly ones too!  Despite gaining nicknames such as the Flying Bathtub and the Flyi…

7 years, 6 months ago

Christmas Outtakes 2018

Not every Plane Tale recording goes according to plan…oops!

7 years, 6 months ago

Flown West

Aeronauts, ducks, aviatrices, anhedral, terminals, slips and skids all have their place in aviation but where do these strange terms come from… parti…

7 years, 6 months ago

Mare’s Tails and Wooly Fleece

Luke Howard, the man who changed castles into Cumulus and mares tails into Cirrus.  No weather forecast would be complete without his system.

Cumul…

7 years, 7 months ago

Killing Myths

An attempt to distill the crash of Air France 447 down to the the simple causes and dispel some of the fanciful and unhelpful theories that surround …

7 years, 7 months ago

Joe Gilmore – Revisited

My first Plane Tale when they weren’t really a thing… the story of Joe Gilmore remastered, re-recorded and revisited.  This was the vital British add…

7 years, 7 months ago

A Four Star Conversation

A conversation with Sir Richard Johns KCB KCVO CBE and retired Chief of the Air Force about his love of military history.

Images by NickAnderson…

7 years, 7 months ago

Gone for a Burton

An explanation of some of the strange terms that we bandy about in aviation.

Image under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Raff.

7 years, 8 months ago

In Flanders Fields

The poppies were some of the first flowers to grow over the churned battlefields and freshly turned earth of war graves during the First World War an…

7 years, 8 months ago