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2026/10/01
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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. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Getting 'Beach City Baby' Ready to Fly Again - C-53 Skytrooper Tour
2026/10/01
Join us as Jason Capra and the Vintage Wing Inc. team show us around 'Beach City Baby', a C-53 Skytrooper with an incredible history that takes in the early days of airlines in the United States, Air Transport Command's efforts in North Africa and her role in the growth of civil aviation in Ohio. She is getting a new set of wings, and you can find out how you can help too!
Check out all the latest Beach City Baby news via their website and socials below:
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Donate and help get those wings on and 'Beach City Baby' back in the air here: https://www.vintagewingsinc.com/donate
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0:00 Meeting Beach City Baby
4:24 Wartime Service
7:36 Inside the Cabin
13:03 Ohio Governor's Aircraft
18:37 Modern Avionics Upgrade
22:58 Finding the Derelict DC-3
25:11 Meet the Wing Crew
27:27 Rewinging the C-53
30:50 Keeping Her Airworthy
36:56 Families Reunited Aloft
42:07 Where to Follow Vintage Wings
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Selling History? How WWII Signatures Became a Cash Grab
2026/09/03
I promise this is the last video on autographs and signatures, but I recently bought a mostly lovely print of Frank Wootton's Typhoon Squadron, which had had all the signatures cut out of it. This led me down a rabbit hole of looking at the commoditisation of these signatures and autographs, where the very rarest are now sliced out and added to both new and old artwork, all in the name of "exclusivity". I mean, we look at a Rommel signature in this one...
Erasing History Part 1: https://pod.fo/e/4276b7
Erasing History Part 2 with Dr Philip W Blood: https://pod.fo/e/55f3cb
The HushKit Typhoon t-shirt is available here: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/This-Machine-Hawker-Typhoon-D-Day-Woody-Gutherie-by-HushKit/159678494/e22z
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0:00 Signatures as Commodities
2:56 Cutting Up Prints For Their Parts
5:19 Autographs on New Editions
8:07 No Historic Value
10:08 History for Sale
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Erasing History Part 2: Is A Signature Historic?
2026/08/20
Dr Philip W. Blood, author of 'Birds of Prey', joins us in this follow-up to our recent episode where I erased the noted Luftwaffe ace, Gunther Rall, signature, off of a print by Robert Taylor.
Phil and I delve into the truth about Luftwaffe complicity in the crimes of the Nazis during the Second World War and discuss the uncomfortable relationship with the regard to which those who survived were viewed.
Grab your copy of Phil's Birds of Prey: Hitler’s Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland and War Comes to Aachen: The Nazis, Churchill and the 'Stalingrad of the West' at The Aviation Show Bookshop. 10% of every sale supports the show and independent bookshops.
Birds of Prey
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US Link: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9783838215679
War Comes to Aachen
UK Link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9781911723691
US Link: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9781911723691
You can listen to both parts of our Birds of Prey discussion with Dr. Philip Blood via the old History Hack podcast here on The Aviation Show website here: https://theaviation.show/hedge-hopping/
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0:00 Erasing History Debate
1:49 Collecting Luftwaffe Prints
7:38 Luftwaffe and Nazi Ideology
15:08 Signatures and Historical Value
17:56 Mass Signatures Questioned
27:59 Rudel and War Myths
36:32 Commercial Versus Historic Autographs
38:54 Erasure as History
46:57 Public Memory and Hero Worship
49:17 Anti-Semitism in Luftwaffe Stories
54:35 Final Solution and Aftermath
56:31 Auschwitz Book Preview
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Pima's B-36 Peacemaker Restoration Update
2026/08/06
The final Convair B-36J Peacemaker ever built, 52-2827 'City of Fort Worth', has been moved to the @PimaAirSpaceMuseum restorations hangar for some TLC after nearly 20-years in the Arizona sun. Scott Marchand, the Pima Air and Space Museum's CEO, joins us from the cockpit of the B-36 to discuss what is going to happen over the coming months as the B-36 is stripped back to bare metal and then given many new coats of paint.
Check out all the links to the Pima Air and Space Museum below!
Be sure to give Boneyard Safari a follow! Many thanks to Ramon Purcell for allowing use of his aerials and images in this episode.
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Jimmy Stewart, Curtis LeMay, and the Selling of the Strategic Air Command
2026/07/30
In 1955, Paramount Pictures released one of their tentpole VistaVision epics, Strategic Air Command, starring James Stewart and directed by his longtime collaborator, Anthony Mann. Strategic Air Command is peak, high-resolution, widescreen 1950s propaganda at its finest, and while not a great film (David and I argue about that aspect too!), its time and place in the building of the mythology of Curtis LeMay's US Air Force bombing arm offers a fascinating insight into the mindset of both LeMay and Jimmy Stewart.
David, the host of The Cold War channel on YouTube, joins me to bring our long-running Bluesky debate about this film to the channel and look at a film that had US military cooperation at a level that would make Michael Bay and Tom Cruise green with envy.
Check out The Cold War channel on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheColdWarTV
Follow David on Bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/coldwarhost.bsky.social
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0:00 B-36 Takes Center Stage
5:25 Plot of a Propaganda Classic
12:13 LeMay Behind the Film
23:07 SAC’s Cold War Mission
31:24 LeMay’s Human Factor
36:27 From Hero to Ripper
42:42 Bombers, Missiles, and Madness
51:32 The Missing LeMay Biography
54:10 Weird Subplots and Standout Scenes
1:00:43 What’s Next for The Cold War?
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'Beyond Blue Sky' Director and SpaceShipOne Project Engineer Interview
2026/07/23
The new documentary, Beyond Blue Sky: The Untold Story of the First Private Astronauts, tells the story of Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites journey into space. In this episode we are joined by the film's director, Kevin Curran, and SpaceShipOne's Project Engineer, Matt Stinemetze, to discuss this incredible project that went from Burt Rutan announcing that they were going to space to winning the $10m Ansari X Prize in 2004.
Beyond Blue Sky: The Untold Story of the First Private Astronauts is a fantastic documentary and is available now on Apple TV and Amazon Prime in the UK and US.
Apple TV link: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/beyond-blue-sky/umc.cmc.3scqjpza3p8lkaz5tr55ksmu9
Amazon link: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0JIG217NYGEBJVVA0ESRKJ3NP2?ref_=atv_dp_share_cu_r
All clips from Beyond Blue Sky are used courtesy of Focus on the Signal LLC.
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Space Hazards with Dr. Ryan French
2026/07/16
The Sun is constantly changing; it is not just a constant ball of fire. Dr Ryan French joins us to tell us about the Sun's behaviour, space weather, and the impact of space hazards on Earth. So if you've ever wondered how solar activity affects our technology, the risks of space junk, and the future of space safety, then this is the show for you!
Check out Ryan's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@Sun.Scientist
Find out more about Ryan French on his website at: www.ryanjfrench.com
Follow Ryan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sun.scientist/
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Follow Ryan on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/ryanjfrench.bsky.social
Grab a copy of Ryan's book, Space Hazards: Asteroids, Solar Flares and Cosmic Threats, at The Aviation Show Bookshop.org! 10% of all sales goes to supporting the show and independent bookshops.
UK Link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9780008688172
US Link: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9780008774660
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0:00 Sun Misconceptions
4:18 Solar Flares Explained
8:14 Space Weather Impacts
15:28 Forecasting Solar Storms
23:06 Protecting Critical Systems
26:32 The Space Junk Problem
31:46 Avoiding Orbital Debris
35:59 Cleaning Up Orbit
37:43 Asteroids and Meteors
39:58 Tracking Dangerous Rocks
42:50 Impact Risks on Earth
45:43 Wrapping Up
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The Typhoon and it's Rocket
2026/07/02
The Hawker Typhoon and the 3" Rocket Projectile, the RP-3, have a special place in the annals of the Second World War. In this first part of a series looking at the Hawker Typhoon, we take a deep dive into the RP-3 and some of the realities of this legendary, if wonderfully inaccurate, weapon.
Check out The Aviation Historian website and get your copy of the new annual edition here: https://www.theaviationhistorian.com/
If you want to see the RP-3 animation by Marcin Gabryelczyk used in this video, you can check it out here: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/game-art-3inch-rp-3-rockets-6-variants-4fb022462efb4d1d80417f15c311e3aa
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0:00 RP-3 Rocket Origins
2:24 Rocket Design Revealed
3:54 Early Typhoon Testing
5:06 Desert Tank-Buster Trials
7:57 Normandy Training Begins
10:27 Rockets Under Combat Fire
12:19 Witness at Mortain
13:06 Claims Versus Reality
15:06 Typhoon’s True Impact
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Erasing History? The Trouble with Aviation Art
2026/06/04
I was recently given two prints by the renowned aviation artist, the late Robert Taylor. One is going on the wall, the other... Well, that is the focus of this video, as why would I want the signature of a man like Günther Rall, an ardent servant of fascism, hanging on my wall?
You can listen to both parts of our Birds of Prey discussion with Dr. Philip Blood via The Aviation Show website here:
https://theaviation.show/hedge-hopping/
You can grab a copy of Birds of Prey by Dr. Philip W. Blood at The Aviation Show Bookshop. 10% of each sale supports the show.
UK Link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9783838215679
US Link: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9783838215679
Jonathan Glancy's 2004 Guardian interview with Rall can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2004/dec/30/1
Rall's obituary in The Daily Telegraph which includes Dr Richard P. Hallion's remarks, can be found via the Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20091015045404/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/6299837/Generalleutnant-Gnther-Rall.html
Find out moe about the Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centres and the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial on their YouTube channel @neuengamme.memorial and website here: https://www.gedenkstaetten-hamburg.de/en/
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The B-1 Story | Part 4 : Today and Tomorrow
2026/04/23
The B-1B Lancer has been in service for 40-years and her later life has been incredibly busy. With the Lancer's replacement, the B-21 Raider, taking to the skies, you would think the B-1B could look forward to a well earned rest. But, as Kenneth P. Katz brings up to date on the B-1's story, we see that the Lancer's story is far from done.
Buy The Supersonic BONE: A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber by Kenneth P. Katz at The Aviation Show Bookshop. 10% of each sale supports the show.
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16621/9781399020299
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0:00 The B-1's Evolving Role
1:45 Modernization and Technological Updates
3:41 Recent Incidents and Losses
7:18 Sustainability Challenges
8:59 Parts and Supply Chain Issues
11:28 Future of the B-1 Bomber
15:35 Recent Combat Operations
19:17 The B-1's Endurance and Future Prospects
22:52 The Legacy of the B-1 Bomber, so far
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The B-1 Story | Part 3: Resurrection
2026/04/09
A new president brings a new future to the B-1 Lancer program as the Reagan rearmament program sees development of the B-1 accelerated. The concurrent development and production brings its own headaches as the Lancer matures in time for a twenty year period of constant operations over Afghanistan and Iraq.
Buy The Supersonic BONE: A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber by Kenneth P. Katz at The Aviation Show Bookshop. 10% of each sale supports the show.
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This is an edited version of our podcast that was released in 2022.
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0:00 The B-1's Resurrection
4:10 Reagan's Military Buildup Begins
6:15 Key Changes in B-1 Development
8:47 The B-1's Entry into Service
11:35 Concurrency and Its Challenges
15:53 The Cold War Ends: A New Mission?
18:31 The B-1's Transformation in the 1990s
20:25 The B-1's Role in Modern Conflicts
22:19 Adapting to a New Warfare
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The B-1 Story | Part 2: False Start
2026/04/02
The B-1 Lancer was a highly innovative design, capable of high-speed, low-altitude flight and potentially could have been a vital buttress to the United States Nuclear Triad. But as we discuss in this second part of the B-1 story, post the Vietnam War, military spending was very much at the forefront of turbulent economic times. New President Jimmy Carter had to make a crucial decision about the future of the B-1.
Buy The Supersonic BONE: A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber by Kenneth P. Katz at The Aviation Show Bookshop. 10% of each sale supports the show.
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16621/9781399020299
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0:00 Introduction to the B-1 Bomber
0:37 Technical Features of the B-1
8:45 Initial Findings and Performance
12:08 Political Context and Controversy
14:55 The Rise of Cruise Missiles
16:04 The B-1's Uncertain Future
17:16 President Carter's Final Decision
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The B-1 Story | Part 1: Genesis
2026/03/26
In this Bonus Episode, we've re-editted our conversation with Ken Katz about the B-1 from 2022 as the aircraft returns to the forefront of operations. The B-1 bomber is an aircraft that captivates all aviation buffs, a true creature of politics and engineering. The B-1's journey to nearly 40 years on the front line of the US Air Force has not been straightforward. Join us as Kenneth P. Katz, author of The Supersonic BONE, describes the journey to the AMSA program that saw the creation of a series of bombers, like the wonderful madness of the XB-70 Valkyrie, that informed what would become the B-1.
Buy The Supersonic BONE: A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber by Kenneth P. Katz at The Aviation Show Bookshop. 10% of each sale supports the show.
UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16621/9781399020299
US: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9781399020299
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0:05 The B-1: A Creature of Politics
1:27 Technological Advances in Aviation
4:54 The B-70: Wonderful Madness
9:10 The Emergence of the Triad
11:50 Shaping the B-1A Specifications
17:30 Competing for the AMSA Contract
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The Sir Barnes Wallis Collection Auction Tour
2026/03/19
On Wednesday 25th March 2026, a collection of Sir Barnes Wallis', the inventor of the Bouncing Bomb and many other things, will do up for auction at Denhams in West Sussex, England. Leo Denham kindly invited us down to explore this incredible collection and get a closer look at some of the increibly important historical artifacts that Wallis kept in his personal collection.
To find out more about the collection, visit the Denhams website at https://denhams.com/ where you can see all the lots and how you can bid on them.
Full cataloges of the collection are aviable for £10.
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0:00 Introduction to the Auction
1:36 Stunning Artworks on Display
3:09 The Iconic Signed Dams Photos
4:58 Family Moments Captured
7:12 Furniture and Personal Items
9:12 The Slingshot 10:22 Presentation Slides
11:17 Hidden Treasures in Old Books
14:28 The Swallow and Wild Goose Models
17:19 NASA's Insights Shared
19:10 Personal Mementos and Memories
21:19 The Marbles: Historical Significance
21:43 Auction Details and How to Participate
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The A-36 (Not An Apache) Story with Matthew Willis
2026/02/12
The North American Aviation A-36 was a dive-bombing development of the Mustang I that had been specified by the British during the Second World War. The dive-bomber was ordered by the US Army Air Force to supplement their attack aircraft and saw service in the Mediterranean and the China-Burma-India theatres. But the A-36's story is overshadowed by its fighter sister, and matters get even more complicated when it comes to the aircraft's name, which it never officially had.
Author and historian Matthew Willis returns to The Aviation Show to discuss the development and service of the A-36 and champion the Allison-engined Mustangs, which were pretty ace.
To enter our giveaway for a personalised copy of Matthew Willis' Mustang: The Untold Story, send an email to [email protected] with the subject line 'Not An Apache' to be considered in the draw. A winner will be chosen at random and announced on Thursday, 26th February 2026. The winner will be notified by email. If no response is received within 72 hours, the draw will be remade, and the new winner announced. There is no monetary alternative to the prize of one hardback copy of 'Mustang: The Untold Story'.
Buy Mustang: The Untold Story by Matthew Willis in the UK through The Aviation Show Bookshop.org. Every sale supports independent bookshops, and 10% of each sale supports us. https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9781913295882
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