This special crossover episode of the Vertical MRO Podcast comes from our sister show, The Helicopter Podcast, bringing an operator-focused conversation directly to the maintenance community. Recorded at VERTICON 2026, The Helicopter Podcast host Halsey Schider sits down with Joe LaRue of Prairie Air to discuss his path through aviation and the role quality maintenance has played in building a business focused on Robinson helicopter operations and support. Joe shares why good maintenance go...

This week we talk about states suing Amazon drone delivery over noise, Blue UAS failing testing, and more

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Guest: Chris NeweyHost: Dave Homewood Recorded:‎28th of September 2026 Released: 1st of October 2026 Duration:43 minutes Dave Homewoodchats with Chris Newey about his latest book, Evader: On The Run In Wartime Europe – A Brief Account. The book focuses on the story of RNZAF pilot Ron Clark who was shot down in an Avro Lancaster bomber over occupied Europe. Landing by parachute on the Dutch-Belgian border, Ron was helped by locals and was put on the Belgian Lifeline, which

Send us Fan Mail October is National Safe Work Month, and this year's theme — Safe work is for life — sits at the heart of this conversation. Work health and safety isn't only about the immediate hazard; it's about the long-term impact of work on a person's health, wellbeing and future. Few people have thought harder about that in an aviation context than our guest. Host William Kerr sits down with Associate Professor Matt Thomas — principal research fellow in human factors at CQUniversity's...

High or tall?✈️ In Episode 23 of The Skybound Dictionary, we explore the difference between these two deceptively simple words:🔹 TALL → physical height🔹 HIGH → position, elevation, level or degree From tall towers to high altitude, discover how to choose the right word for precise aviation English. The right word. The right meaning.🎧 Listen now — and keep your aviation English sharp.

In our continuing series from the Pikes Peak Regional Airshow livestream, Rob sits down 1 on 1 with Audra Bohannon of WPP Legacy Warbirds and talks about their rare warbirds, what it's like on the airshow circuit and how WPP came to be. #nationlmuseumofwwiiaviation #WPPLegacywarbirds #warbirds ‪@WPPLegacywarbirds ‪@nationalwwiiaviation‬ If you would like to support the museum and "Keep 'em flying!" please consider donating to The National Museum of WWII Aviation in Colorado Spri...

Vinod returns to share a three-week family journey through Tokyo, Sapporo, and Osaka, plus more in between — and the choices along the way: fly or ride the Shinkansen, explore the airport or head into the city, and which flight is worth taking just for the aircraft.Paul and Vinod compare Air Canada, ANA, JAL, and Zipair, swapping stories about standout service, a 24-year-old JAL 767-300, and everything that make Japanese travel memorable.From observation decks to QR-codes galore, embarkation cards

Welcome to another episode of Vertical MRO Tech Talk presented by Bell. In this episode of Bell Tech Talk, Vertical MRO's David Kreutzkamp is joined by Bell customer support engineers Eric Parent and Jason Estaphan for a deep dive into common Bell 505 maintenance questions coming from the field. Eric and Jason share practical guidance on servicing the Bell 505 live mount system, hydraulic pump drive shaft and NR pickup troubleshooting, differences maintainers should know between the Garmin G...

This episode:ETOPS flights could be impacted by the closing of an airport on a tiny South Pacific island. FAA rescinds Cessna Citation single-pilot exemptions. Heart Aerospace unveils the ES-36 hybrid-electric 30-seat regional commercial aircraft and JSX purchase agreement for up to 100 aircraft. A Congressman questions the FAA deployment of the Strategic Management of Airspace Routing Trajectories (“SMART”). The Air Combat Command Accident Investigation Board determined that incorrectly

Welcome to the Part Time Pilot Audio Ground School Podcast! This podcast was created to help student pilots learn their ground school during their busy schedules. These audio lessons were created as Dedicated Audio... meaning they are not just the audio from one of our video lessons because video audio would assume that you can see the video visuals. A dedicated audio lesson assumes you cannot see anything and therefore goes into detail with metaphors and audible descriptions of the images in our

Previewing the African Airlines Association 58th AGA with Secretary General, Abderahmane Berthe Ahead of the Annual General Assembly in Libreville, Gabon, Jon Howell caught up with the SG and together they cover the pressure points shaping African aviation right now, from fuel shocks and airspace disruption to taxes, blocked funds, financing, fleet development, and market liberalization. Chapters: 01:24 - How the Middle East crisis and fuel shock has impacted African airlines 06:24 - Why fleet

On 7/10/26 a Cessna C-402C reg. C6-FLX crashed on approach to San Andros Airport in the Bahamas. John Goglia and Todd Curtis discuss the preliminary report.Former NTSB Board Member Hon. John Goglia and aerospace engineer and aviation analyst Dr. Todd Curtis, dive into the known facts about this fatal accident as they are relayed in the preliminary report.In addition, John will discuss his experience at the NTSB with operators - that like the operator of this flight – had multiple safety events in

Lying beneath the United States Naval Academy Chapel in a marble sarcophagus sits the body of John Paul Jones. Midshipmen are taught to revere him as the Father of the Navy, yet the reality behind his legend is far more complex, flawed, and politically constructed.Host Captain Tim "Lucky" Kinsella traces Jones’s journey from a humble gardener's son on the Solway Firth to an ambitious merchant master, a fugitive running from mutiny and murder charges in the Caribbean, and finally a daring Continental

The FAA has ended the single-pilot exemption pathway for several legacy Cessna Citation models, creating an immediate operational and economic issue for affected aircraft owners, contract pilots and charter operators.In this episode of The VIP Seat, Jessie Naor and Preston Holland break down what the FAA’s move actually means for Citation II, Bravo, V, Ultra, Encore and Encore+ operators and why the CE-525 CitationJet family is not affected. They discuss the agency’s safety rationale, allegations of

In this episode, host Carl Valeri is joined by Eric Crump, Vice President of the Aerospace Center for Excellence, as he recounts a critical situation during a commercial pilot training flight. While flying at night in a Cessna 172RG high above a cloud deck, Eric and his crew smell electrical smoke in the cockpit. With no visible horizon and freezing temperatures threatening rapid ice accumulation in the cloud layer, they are forced to shut down the master switch, leaving them completely without

Season 2 Episode 20Aviation careers rarely follow a straight line. In this episode, corporate pilot and flight instructor John Niehaus shares the unexpected turns in his own aviation journey—from graduating into the 2008 financial crisis and building hours as a CFI, to flying for the airlines, charter operations, and ultimately corporate aviation. Along the way, he learned that adaptability, relationships, and a willingness to say “yes” to unexpected opportunities can matter just as much as having

Certification has a reputation for being complicated. Dario Formenti, senior systems manager - sustainable fuels, International Sustainability and Carbon Certification (ISCC) thinks that's overdone, and explains why. On this week's episode of The SAF Podcast, Oscar and Dario cover why certification is far more than a stamp on paper. It underpins market access, compliance claims and the credibility SAF needs to scale. They also discuss: How ISCC handles e-SAF and RFNBOs, including its pr...

The U.S. Army is opening the door to as much as $7 billion in counter-drone spending through a massive IDIQ contract covering a wide range of detection and defeat technologies. We look at why the Pentagon is spreading the work among numerous companies and how the program could support both military operations and the Domestic Drone Shield.Video of the Week: SF startup develops terrifying drone that stalks people.We also discuss plans to protect Cape Canaveral with laser-based counter-drone systems,

Mindy & Kevin share anonymous aviation stories! In this episode they hear how a listener bought a new to hime aircraft, it was quite tight in the cockpit so he figured a way to man-spread the controls, which ultimately led to a brief loss of control, they hear how a listener wore many hats, a line guy, CFI, and Airline pilot and each job brought fun stories to tag along, finally they hear how a pilot hit a seagull and he doesn’t think it made it. Want to submit an anonymous story to our show