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Straighten Up and Fly Right
The Right Hand Traffic Rule stated that an aircraft which was flying within the United Kingdom in sight of the ground and following a road, railway, …
2 years, 11 months ago
Brass Monkeys
Traditionally the phrase Brass Monkeys goes hand in hand with weather so cold that only a naughty sounding description like, “It’s cold enough to fre…
2 years, 11 months ago
RAF Form 414, Vol. 21
Life on 77 Squadron had settled down to a routine, if it ever really could on a fighter squadron. There was certainly plenty of variety to our flying…
2 years, 11 months ago
Fifteen Hundred Hours
Marvin and Rebecca’s first two flights of the day were cancelled due to high winds at Newark so they both waited in the crew room until their company…
2 years, 11 months ago
Great Uncle Baz
With thanks to listener Sam Dawson who has such interesting relatives and to Betty Goerke, the author of a book about Baz Bagby, A Broken Propeller. …
2 years, 11 months ago
RAF Form 414, Vol. 20
The continuation of my log book tales, otherwise known as RAF Form 414, and we are up to Volume 20. Apart from other asides, this tale deals with my…
2 years, 11 months ago
The Applegate Memorandum
The DC-10 was McDonnell Douglas’s first commercial airliner project since the merger between McDonnell Aircraft Corporation and the Douglas Aircraft …
2 years, 11 months ago
RAF Form 414, Vol. 19
Telling the tale of my flying career, I left you at the end of my F/A18 conversion course as we reformed the No 77 Royal Australian Air Force Squadro…
3 years, 3 months ago
Sailing Off to Hawaii
Hawaii became the most recent state to join the union in 1959 and is now the third wealthiest. Following it’s annexation, Hawaii became an important…
3 years, 3 months ago
Crash Investigation is No Accident
It was the 13th of May 1912, a Monday, when a Flanders F3 Monoplane took off from Brooklands in Surrey, a county of England. The pilot was the aviat…
3 years, 3 months ago