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Over Cold War Seas with Michael Napier
New Jan 08, 2026 1h 0m

Over Cold War Seas with Michael Napier

For forty years, NATO and Soviet Naval forces patrolled the world's oceans. Retired Tornado driver and author Michael Napier joins us to discuss his latest book, Over Cold War Seas: NATO and Soviet...

Remastering Gemini and Mercury with Andy Saunders
Dec 15, 2025 48 min

Remastering Gemini and Mercury with Andy Saunders

Best-selling author and imaging specialist Andy Saunders follows up his remarkable Apollo Remastered with Gemini and Mercury Remastered. Gemini was NASA's highly ambitious 20-month sprint to prove ...

Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon with Jeffrey Kluger
Dec 15, 2025 48 min

Gemini: Stepping Stone to the Moon with Jeffrey Kluger

Over the course of 20 months, NASA flew 10 vital Project Gemini missions that proved everything needed to get to the Moon in time to meet President John F. Kennedy's challenge. Apollo 13 co-author ...

Spacewoman Film Review: A Superb Space Documentary
Nov 10, 2025 17 min

Spacewoman Film Review: A Superb Space Documentary

Col. Eileen Collins, USAF Rtd., had a fantastic career before joining NASA. Her dream to go to space led her to become not only the first woman to pilot the Space Shuttle but also the first woman t...

Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Tour
Sep 29, 2025 55 min

Tangmere Military Aviation Museum Tour

The Tangmere Military Aviation Museum is a gem of a museum located on a corner of the former RAF Tangmere, just outside Chichester, West Sussex. On a surprisingly sunny Sussex day, marketing manage...

Poor Little Lambs: The Making of Black Sheep Squadron
Sep 01, 2025 36 min

Poor Little Lambs: The Making of Black Sheep Squadron

Author Stephen Chapis, whose new book, Poor Little Lambs, The Baba Black Sheep Story, joins us to discuss the making and flying of NBC's short-lived 1976 TV Show, Black Sheep Squadron. St...

Rolls-Royce Collection Tour at Aerospace Bristol
Aug 25, 2025 37 min

Rolls-Royce Collection Tour at Aerospace Bristol

After many years out of the public's view, the Rolls-Royce Aerospace Collection has a brand new home at Aerospace Bristol and thanks to the fantastic team at the museum, we got to have a quick look...

Aerospace Bristol Tour with Sir Iain Gray
Aug 18, 2025 44 min

Aerospace Bristol Tour with Sir Iain Gray

Bristol has been a vibrant hub for British aviation since aircraft first took to the United Kingdom's skies. While the skies of the West Country no longer hum to the aircraft and engines produced a...

The Aviator and the Showman with Laurie Gwen Shapiro
Jul 07, 2025 1h 5m

The Aviator and the Showman with Laurie Gwen Shapiro

The life and legacy of Amelia Earhart are framed by her disappearance on July 2, 1937. However, in her new book, The Aviator and the Showman, author Laurie Gwen Shapiro examines Earhart's rema...

Spitfires with Becky Aikman
Jun 16, 2025 52 min

Spitfires with Becky Aikman

In 1942, a group of American women arrived in Liverpool, England. This group of aviatrixes, led by the remarkable Jackie Cochran, were joining the Air Transport Auxiliary to help deliver the latest...

The Bristol Brabazon with Alan J Porter
Jun 09, 2025 1h 1m

The Bristol Brabazon with Alan J Porter

The Bristol Brabazon was conceived at the height of the Second World War. With the tide of the conflict turning, the British Government set up a committee to examine the nation's future civil airli...

Pima Air and Space Museum Pubcast!
May 25, 2025 53 min

Pima Air and Space Museum Pubcast!

As Scott Marchand and Andrew Boehly, CEO and Director of Collections of the Pima Air and Space Museum, respectively, were in town, I had to drag them to the pub to find out what the future holds fo...

Eagle Days with Victoria Taylor
May 20, 2025 1h 16m

Eagle Days with Victoria Taylor

In an Aviation Show first, we teamed up with Paul Woodadge of  @WW2TV  to do a multi Live Stream! This is the audio from our discussion with Dr Victoria Taylor. Victoria joins us to discu...

The Sinking of the Cap Arcona: 3rd May 1945
May 09, 2025 16 min

The Sinking of the Cap Arcona: 3rd May 1945

80 years ago, on the 3rd May 1945, Hawker Typhoons of the RAF's 2nd Tactical Air Force attacked German shipping in Lubeck Bay, north of Hamburg. They succeeded in sinking three large ships and dama...

Beechcraft Heritage Museum Tour - Part 2
Apr 21, 2025 50 min

Beechcraft Heritage Museum Tour - Part 2

🛩️Welcome to part 2 of our tour of the Beechcraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma, Tennessee, with Museum President, Charles Parish. In this episode we look into Beechcraft's WW2 aircraft like the ven...

Beechcraft Heritage Museum Tour - Part 1
Apr 14, 2025 43 min

Beechcraft Heritage Museum Tour - Part 1

🛩️The Beechcraft Heritage Museum in Tullahoma, Tennessee, is my new favourite aircraft museum in the world. The museum is dedicated to the story of the Beechcraft and Travel Air brands and the incr...

National Museum of the Marine Corps Tour
Apr 07, 2025 55 min

National Museum of the Marine Corps Tour

Just down the road from Washington, DC, is the National Museum of the Marine Corps in Virginia Triangle. Here, they tell the story of The Corps, from its founding to its future. Dr Larry Burke is t...