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The Aviation Show
Welcome to The Aviation Show! The Aviation Show celebrates aviation and aerospace, from the first attempts of people jumping off things to humans being fired into space. If it flies, we will cover the story behind those flights and the people who made them happen. Brought to you in association with the Pima Air and Space Museum.
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Episodes
The Aviation ShowEmpire Flying Boat to Australia with Phil Vabre
Flying to Australia is a chore today, but 85 years ago, Imperial Airways and Qantas launched an audacious service with the wonderful Shorts C.23 Empire Flying…
The Aviation ShowPauline Gower: Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women with Alison Hill
This week I'm joined by poet and author Alison Hill whose new biography of Pauline Gower, the pilot who would spearhead the Women's Section of the ATA and…
The Aviation ShowFlying in Arizona with Tim Amalong
Tim Amalong is the president of Arizona Aero-Tech and Velocity Air, which provides flight training and aviation services out of Ryan Field in Tuscon, Arizona…
The Aviation ShowMagnificent Women and Flying Machines with Sally Smith
Women have been involved in flight from the earliest moments, yet they have been relegated to the margins in most of our histories. So it was fantastic to read…
The Aviation ShowThe Women Behind the Few with Dr Sarah-Louise Miller
The Women's Auxillary Air Force has a specific spot in the public's memory. Either as the headphoned women sat around the RAF's plotting tables or of Susannah…
The Aviation ShowThe Titan Missile Museum with Mike Riggs
The Titan Missile Museum in Green Valley, Arizona, was formally Complex 571-7 of the Titan II ICBM defence system that was active between 1963 and 1987. The…
The Aviation ShowThe Pima Air and Space Museum with Scott Marchand
I'm delighted to announce that the podcast will now be brought to you in association with the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona. To kick off this…
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Bonus: A Little Update
We don't have a new episode this week as there are things happening! Normal service resumes next week, but there are snippets as to why in this little bonus…
The Aviation ShowIWM Duxford's Unsung Heroes with Matthew Willis
As we were at Duxford for last week's ace chat with Rebecca Greenwood Hard about the hurricane: Unsung Hero exhibition, historian Matt Willis and I decided to…
The Aviation ShowHurricane: Unsung Hero with Rebecca Greenwood Harding
The Hawker Hurricane has gone down in popular history as 'not the Spitfire'. But when the Imperial War Museum unveiled their latest exhibition at IWM Duxford…
The Aviation ShowThomas McKelvey Cleaver: The Bridgebusters - Joseph Heller, Catch-22 and the 57th Bomb Wing
Catch-22 is one of my favourite books. My battered paperback copy lives on my bedside table. I have the fancy Folio Society edition on the shelf too. As an…
The Aviation ShowJohn Lancaster: The Great Air Race
In 1919, the forerunner to the United States Air Force, the Air Service, staged an audacious transcontinental air race. While flying coast to coast had never…
The Aviation ShowJoe Wilding: The Future of Aviation: Part 2 - The Shape of the Future
As the last Boeing 747 rolls off the assembly line at Everett, the once distinctive shape of the airliners we have known have become the norm. But with the…
The Aviation ShowJoe Wilding: The Future of Aviation: Part 1 - Powering the Future
Aviation is at a fascinating crossroads. As the production of the 747 ends this year and the production lines have been quiet for quite some time now In their…
The Aviation ShowStephen Walker: Beyond - The Chief Designer, The Misfit and The Lost Cosmonauts
Stephen Walker's Beyond was one of my reads of lockdown. Beyond covers the months leading up to Yuri Gagarin's Vostok 1 flight that made him the first human in…
The Aviation ShowDavid O'Keefe and Wayne Abbott: Finding Challenger
The Challenger Disaster is one that still resonates nearly 40 years after that the tragedy that claimed seven astronauts 73 seconds into their flight. On the…
The Aviation ShowEwan McArthur: Moorabbin Air Museum and Bristol Beaufighter Tour
The day job recently took me to Oz where on my last morning, I went to Moorabbin in Southern Melbourne to visit Ewan McArthur at the Moorabbin Air Museum. The…
The Aviation ShowMatthew Willis: The Fairey Swordfish Story
The Fairey Swordfish was an aircraft out of time. Obsolete by the time it was called upon in the Second World War, it was an aircraft of contradictions. Kept…
The Aviation ShowChris Henry: Jesse L. Brown, Thomas Hudner Jr. and the Corsair
Jesse L. Brown was the US Navy's first African-American Naval Aviator. With his squadron mates, onboard the USS Leyte in VF-32, Jesse and his wingman Thomas…
The Aviation ShowJulia Cooke: The Women of Pan Am
The 1960s saw the true birth of international air travel. The glamour of the jet set was only matched by the glamour of the flight attendants that cared for…
The Aviation ShowKenneth Katz: The Supersonic BONE: Part 2 - Rebirth as the B-1B
A change of President in 1981 led to a complete change in US military posture, and with Roland Regan came the rebirth of the B-1 project as a much-refined B-1B…
The Aviation ShowKenneth Katz: The Supersonic BONE: Part 1 - The Journey to the B-1A
Few modern aircraft capture the attention of the hardened AVGeek more than the Rockwell B-1B Lancer bomber. Designed at the crux of the Cold War, the journey…
The Aviation ShowAlaina Lewis: The Art of Wooden Propellers
It is rare when you are doomscrolling Instagram that you find something truly wonderful. Out at Culver Props in Rolla, Missouri, Alaina Lewis makes wooden…
The Aviation ShowEster Aube: The AirCorps Library and Saving North American Aviation's Drawings
The sigh of relief that goes up when the phrase "there is a drawing for that" is uttered in aviation restoration houses around the world is palpable. The…
The Aviation ShowAdrian Phillips: Rearming the RAF for the Second World War
The 'Spitfire Summer' of 1940 is lodged in the heads of the British psyche like few other conflicts. Yet, the mix of aircraft that the RAF fielded in the early…
The Aviation ShowJames Scott: The Firebombing of Tokyo
In his new book, Black Snow: Curtis LeMay, the Firebombing of Tokyo, and the Road to the Atomic Bomb, James M. Scott breaks down the journey of the USAAF to…
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