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Royal Aeronautical Society Podcast
The Royal Aeronautical Society is the world’s only professional body dedicated to the entire aerospace community. Established in 1866 to further the art, science and engineering of aeronautics, the Society has been at the forefront of developments in aerospace ever since.
Episodes
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - November 2024
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastElvis Tinago Interview - celebrating Black History Month 2024
In this special episode celebrating Black History Month 2024 at the Royal Aeronautical Society, we’re excited to welcome Elvis Tinago, an aerospace engineer…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastJackson Smith Interview - celebrating Black History Month 2024
In this special episode celebrating Black History Month 2024 at the Royal Aeronautical Society, we’re thrilled to welcome Jackson Smith, CEO of Fantasy Wings…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastNational Mentoring Day 2024: alta Mentoring Spotlight
National Mentoring Day is celebrated on 27 October and has put a spotlight on the benefits of mentoring for everyone, no matter who they are or where they are…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with AVM Graham Skinner...a varied and distinguished engineering career in the RAF
Air Vice Marshal Graham Skinner has had a long, varied and distinguished career in the Royal Air Force, specialising in engineering. Passionate about aviation…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - October 2024
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with Katrina Sudell…‘lady engineer’ with BAC in the 1970s (abridged)
Katrina talks about her university education and early employment before describing how she got into aeronautical engineering. Katrina provides a fascinating…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with Mike Howlett…flying aircraft for 70 years in the RAF and BOAC
Michael ‘Mike’ Howlett’s talks about his experience of flying successive generations of aircraft during his career as a pilot spanning over 70 years. Having…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with Sir Donald Spiers HonFRAeS…from graduate apprentice to MOD Controller of Aircraft
Sir Donald Spiers HonFRAeS talks about his early life before sharing stories from his remarkable career in the aerospace sector including some personal…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - September 2024
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with...Sir Harry Garner at the RAE and beyond
The First World War took Garner away from astronomy into ‘one of the most lovely places you could possibly imagine’- the Royal Aircraft Establishment. Here he…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - August 2024
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - Farnborough Air Show 2024
AEROSPACE Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and Features Editor Bella Richards sum up the 2024 Farnborough Air Show. Plus special…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - July 2024
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - June 2024
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastClassic Podcasts - Triumph Tears : British Aviation from 1945-75 by Peter Reese
In 1945 confidence in British aviation was sky-high. Yet decades later, the industry had not lived up to its potential. What happened? The years that followed…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - May 2024
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastRAeS Corporate Partner Briefing: Fireside Chat with Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton RAF
Listen to the Royal Air Force, Chief of the Air Staff, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton in conversation with Air Marshal Sir Christopher Harper at a…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastRewind – The Schneider Trophy by W. Cox
The ultimate test of the great powers’ pilots, aircraft and powerplants in the interwar period, the Schneider Trophy seaplane contest pushed forward aviation…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - April 2024
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastClassic Lectures - The Contribution of Power Jets Ltd to Jet Propulsion by G. B. R. Feilden
After being redeployed from Unilever to a small firm just outside Rugby in May 1940, Bob Feilden played a key role in the development of Whittle’s jet engine…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - March 2024
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson and Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM Singapore 2024
AEROSPACE Editor-in-Chief Tim Robinson and Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater sum up the 2024 Singapore Air Show
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with the civil pioneers….. life flying the HP.42 and seaplanes for Imperial Airway
RAF turned Imperial Airways pilot, Captain Parker, gives us a flavour of what life was like working for Imperial in the 1930s. He tells us about operating the…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastInterview with the civil pioneers.. the first Brisbane-Singapore route to post-war Qantas management
Captain Crowther operated the first service from Brisbane to Darwin and then onto Singapore in 1934 and recalls life flying a DH.86 on that route. He also…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - February 2024
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastRewind - Fair Names & Famous - Naming of British Aircraft & Engines by Gordon T. Wansbrough-White
What’s in a name? This lecture takes us through the evolving picture of how manufacturers were required to name their military aircraft and engines and shows…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - January 2024
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastClassic Lecture: The invention of the aeroplane near Scarborough at the time of Trafalgar
“Oh come on, surely it was the Wright Brothers who did this!” In his lecture Dr John Ackroyd FRAeS tries to persuade us that Sir George Cayley, not the Wright…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - December 2023
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM Dubai 2023
AEROSPACE Editor-in-Chief Tim Robinson and Features Editor Bella Richards sum up the 2023 Dubai Air Show and speak to special guest Royal Aeronautical Society…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with the civil pioneers… Kingsford Smith & Australian National Airways between the wars
After service in World War I, Capt Allan moved to the other side of the world and joined the fledgling Australian National Airways. He retells stories of his…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with the civil pioneers….. Flying for Qantas between the wars by Captain Russell Tapp
Tapp joined Qantas when it employed 25 people, including just seven pilots. His path to Australia started after service with the Royal Air Force and a spell…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with the civil pioneers….. Creating Australian airfields by Lt Cdr A. D. S. Murray
Aircraft not only need to fly, but also need to land safely. A. D. S. Murray spent his early years in Australia surveying the country or emergency and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - November 2023
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastRewind – Aeronautical Aspects of the Spanish Civil War by Brian Armstrong MRAeS
The Spanish Civil War came at a significant period in the development of aviation and foreshadowed aerial warfare in the Second World War. But how much was the…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - October 2023
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson, Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater and…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with the civil pioneers….. Flying for Imperial Airways in the 1930s and 1940s
After training with the RAF just after the First World War and service in India, Capt Mollard made his way to Imperial Airways, and tells us about life at…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with the civil pioneers... Karachi to New Zealand Catalina Flying Boat survey flight
The captain of the 1937 flying boat survey flight from Karachi to New Zealand explains how he became involved in the historic event and how they prepared for…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - September 2023
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson and Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with the civil pioneers…. early days of the Karachi to Singapore route
Captain Egglesfield commanded some of the earliest commercial flights over India and the Far East including the first scheduled service from Karachi to…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAn interview with the civil pioneers…. first experimental civil flight between Karachi and Darwin
In April 1931 Captain Alger was asked to fly the first experimental airmail flight between Karachi and Darwin in his de Havilland DH.66, the City of Cairo. In…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - August 2023
In this podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson and Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastClassic Lecture - TSR-2: Panel Discussion
Was the incoming Labour Government right to cancel TSR-2? Was there a possibility of creating an Anglo-French military aircraft programme in the early 1960s?…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastClassic Lecture - TSR-2: A Warning for Tempest? By Dr Michael Pryce MRAeS
What lessons did the UK’s aerospace industry learn from TSR-2 and what key points can we take into today’s aerospace projects? As a student, Michael Pryce…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastClassic Lecture - TSR-2: What could have been? By Benjamin Goodlad
What would have happened if Britain decided to keep TSR-2? Benjamin Goodlad explores the possible strategic and tactical use of the aircraft, discusses the…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastClassic Lecture - TSR-2: Empty Skies: British procurement dilemmas and opportunities following TSR-2
The cancellation of TSR-2 left a large gap in the RAF’s armoury, but how should the gap be filled? Samuel Hollins explores the immediate procurement dilemmas…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastClassic Lecture - TSR-2: A ‘melancholy spectacle’: the downfall of the TSR-2 by Clive Richards
How did those in the corridors of power see the development of the TSR-2 project once it had been awarded? Clive Richards explores the political and strategic…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastAEROSPACE NOTAM - July 2023
In this new podcast series from the Royal Aeronautical Society's monthly AEROSPACE magazine, Editor in Chief Tim Robinson and Deputy Editor Stephen Bridgewater…
Royal Aeronautical Society PodcastNOTAM - Paris 2023
Listen to the AEROSPACE team sum up the 2023 Paris Air Show.