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  1. 11/21/2013

    Episode 69 - Jon Hilton to Canada and Back in a Microlight

    As part of the build up to doing a round the world flight Jon Hilton told me that he wanted to fly his CT microlight to Canada and back. Jon set off in May of 2013 and went from the UK to the Faroes, Iceland, Greenland and on to Canada before turning around and doing the same thing in reverse. His entry in the log book in the tower stood out alongside the usual 'Sleaps, Caernarfons and Welshpools'. I'm sure the book has rarely seen an entry such as, 'Canada, via Wick'!

    1h 38m

  2. 10/21/2013

    Episode 68 - Cary Robins - Weight and Balance Calculations

    Cary Robins is the owner of American Aeronautics and his company markets weight and balance calculators. I wanted to find out why weight and balance is so important, about his company's products and about his flying career too.

    57 min

  3. 09/24/2013

    Episode 67 - London to Sydney The Slow Way

    A flight from London to Sydney, Australia in a PA28 by Andy Hardy and Sam Kidd. We discuss the planning that the guys have had to do prior to this epic flight adventure.

    46 min

  4. 09/04/2013

    Episode 66 - LAA Rally 2013

    A trip to the Light Aircraft Association Rally to see what's new on the GA scene here in the UK. I talk to various aircraft manufacturers and importers including Grass Strip Aviation, Red-Air, Sprite Aviation, Dragon Aviation, The Light Aircraft Company and Swift Aviation.

    41 min

  5. 08/06/2013

    Episode 65 - Fly2Pole update

    An update on the Flying for Freedom project. As you'll remember from episode 63 the Fly2Pole expedition is endeavouring to get several disabled military personnel to the South Pole in microlight aircraft. So, when the Flying for Freedom team held a sponsor's open day a few weeks ago I popped down to Kemble for a bit of a catch-up.

    34 min

  6. 05/14/2013

    Episode 64 - Popham Microlight Trade Fair 2013

    A chat with many of the exhibitors at Popham. We talk to everyone from the SSDR manufacturers to the importers of some of the hottest hot-ships in the world of microlighting.

    1h 37m

  7. 02/17/2013

    Episode 63 - John Laity - British Antarctic Microlight Expedition

    At the Flying Show last year I met a chap called John Laity on the P&M Aviation stand. John is one of the founders of Flying for Freedom which aims to train injured ex-servicemen to fly microlights as part of their rehabilitation into civilian life. In addition, Flying for Freedom are launching an expedition to the south pole where they'll be trying to get a team to fly flexwing microlights to the pole and back. I caught up with John via Skype recently, just after his return from the press launch at the Tower of London.

    47 min

  8. 02/01/2013

    Episode 62 - Martin Jones - de Havilland DH88 Comet Racer

    For today's episode I travelled down to Derby Aero Club to meet Martin Jones. Martin is the owner of the airfield and is also proprietor of Airspeed Aviation. My reason for the visit though was to have a chat to Martin about the restoration project that he's undertaking. His labour of love is a 1934 de Havilland Comet DH88 - G-ACSP - a so called Comet Racer. The aircraft was originally built by de Havilland for the England to Australia, 'MacRobertson' Air Race.

    35 min
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  • Creator
    Flying Podcast
  • Years Active
    2008 - 2013
  • Episodes
    69
  • Rating
    Explicit
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