Podcast Episodes

RAF Form 414, Vol 29

Stories from my logbook continue with the last few weeks of my service career, which were a blur of form signing, return of equipment, formal dinners…

1 year, 9 months ago

RAF Form 414, Vol 28

Log book stories still abound but I’m now on the last volume of my small collection of RAF Form 414s.  Unbeknown to me back then, my time in the Air …

1 year, 10 months ago

The Guinea Pig Club

In the words of it’s benefactor, “It has been described as the most exclusive Club in the world, but the entrance fee is something most men would not…

1 year, 10 months ago

RAF Form 414, Vol 27

My logbook tales continue with my tour on Tremblers flying the F3 Tornado which had got off to a difficult start when our compliment of brand new air…

1 year, 10 months ago

See and Avoid

It’s the summer of 1971 and Helen Reddy is singing about hiking down to the canyon store to buy a bottle wine and having such a good time.  I have no…

2 years ago

The 1 to 10 of Aviation

The numeric version of three previous Tales covering the A to Z of Aviation.  Now we look at what numbers might mean to pilots?

Babylonian numeric …

2 years ago

RAF Form 414, Vol 26

As you may recall I was undergoing the training course for the Tornado F3 Air Defence Variant having completed four previous flying tours.  Now being…

2 years, 1 month ago

RAF Form 414, Vol 25

Form 414, my RAF Logbook continues with me leaving Australia and the Hornet unhappily in my rear vision mirror as I was heading back to Blighty and a…

2 years, 5 months ago

RAF Form 414, Vol 24

After I landed my aircraft I clambered out of the Hornet with the cold realisation that I might have flown my last sortie.  The spinning sensation ha…

2 years, 5 months ago

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Moon

The year is 1957 and the space race is underway.  The major powers around the world, mainly the Soviet Union and the United States, are all striving …

2 years, 5 months ago