Frank Luke, the Arizona Balloon Buster, and the Eighteen Days That Made America's Most Ferocious Pilot and Ended Him at Twenty-One. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.

Aireon, the Iridium NEXT Satellite Constellation, and the Space-Based ADS-B Network That Finally Made Every Oceanic Flight Visible in Real Time. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

VFR Altitude Rules: Obstacle Clearance and the Distances Pilots Get Wrong. With Tower on Radio Hangar.

Class E Airspace, the Magenta Dashed Circle Most Students Miss, and the Weather Minimum Trap Hiding at Every Uncontrolled Instrument Airport. With Pattern on Radio Hangar.

The Boeing X-37B, the Space Force's Autonomous Spaceplane, and the Thousand-Day Mission That Proves the Line Between Aviation and Orbit Is Already Gone. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

FAR Ninety-One Point One Fifty-One, the Thirty-Minute VFR Fuel Reserve, and the Margin That Separates Legal from Stranded on a Cross-Country. With Pattern on Radio Hangar.

Sedona Airport, the Mesa Strip Above Red Rock Country, and the Approach That Makes Every Passenger Forget They Were Nervous About Small Planes. With Ramp on Radio Hangar.

All four of the boys are back to discuss the events of the week including:Qantas flying direct to the big appleAn ex KLM CEO charging his phoneUpdate on the OEM's and their part shortagesThe Skytrax 2026 rankings

FAR Ninety-One Point One Nineteen, the Minimum Safe Altitude Regulation Pilots Misread More Than Any Other Line in Part Ninety-One, and the Congested Area Definition That Doesn't Say What You Think It Says. With Pattern on Radio Hangar.

Boom Supersonic's XB-1, the Overture Airliner, and What It Would Actually Take to Put Passengers Back Above Mach One Over the Atlantic. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

Slow Flight After the ACS Rewrite, the Stall Warning You Cannot Trigger, and the Checkride Standard Most Students Are Getting Wrong. With Pattern on Radio Hangar.

In this week's fully packed show we have news of yet another ATC outage, a power bank fire, a near miss with a glider, and BA are going to Kilimanjaro.   We're back with the Military news this week, with a report about a ditching of a Merlin, and we'll be hearing about the skies of Cumbria being brought to life.   We also have another interview from the Jersey International Air Display that Nev attended a couple of weeks ago.    You can get in touch with us all at : WhatsApp +447446975214

The Garmin GFC Six Hundred, the Digital Autopilot Retrofit That Brought Envelope Protection to Legacy Airframes, and the LVL Button That Has Changed the Outcome of More Than a Few Bad Nights in IMC. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

The METAR Decode, the Two-Letter Sky Condition Code That Hides a Ceiling, and the TAF That Tells You Whether the Weather Will Hold for Your Return. With Pattern on Radio Hangar.

The Angle of Attack Indicator, the Korean War Fighter That Had One and the Cessna That Doesn't, and the FAA Ruling That Changed the Economics of Stall Prevention. With Vector on Radio Hangar.

The FlightGlobal Focus team explores recent headlines, from Airbus adapting its wing-manufacturing strategy to meet roaring demand, to Boeing navigating ETOPS delays amid a GE9X seal redesign, to Vertical Aerospace opening a Kemble assembly site while seeking strategic partners.

Thanks to the latest Rotax 916iS engine with its 160hp max power, there’s a flock of superfast microlights becoming available - and the latest, the JMB VL3, has just been approved for the UK. As well as the power (cue: MORE POWER!), this new breed of 600kg microlights are also well-equipped, look sensational and, well, expensive. In the News: Owner of Wolverhampton Halfpenny Green killed First UK JMB VL3 delivered STOL UK Competition at Popham Fairford RAT Game Aerospace flies GB2 firebomber...

DESCRIPTION: Every flight through the Gulf this month is being approved on the day, one flight at a time. If your December ticket to Europe or Asia connects in Dubai or Doha, this episode tells you who makes that decision and what to do about your own booking. This week your phone filled up with videos of missiles over Riyadh and a travel warning from Washington. I read the US security alert for the UAE word for word. It is an alert about the whole region. It does not say the Emirates is unsafe, and

The Diamond DA Forty NG, Jet-A in a Piston Airframe, and the Case for Buying What Flight Schools Already Proved Works. With Tower on Radio Hangar.

The Grumman F Six F Hellcat, the Carrier Fighter Built Around a Captured Zero, and the Nineteen-to-One Kill Ratio That Broke Japan's Naval Air Power for Good. With Taildragger on Radio Hangar.