Fri, 20 December 2013
We talk to Bill Anderson and Dale Tutt about the new Textron AirLand Scorpion Jet, which made its first flight just last week. |
Tue, 3 December 2013
The remarks by US Rep Sam Graves regarding sequestration and its effects on the airshow industry. |
Sun, 24 November 2013
Here it is! The third and final installment of the Inside Airshows series. After doing stints on a pyro crew and as a team narrator, things went to a completely new level as I had the opportunity to train up, join a team, and fly as an actual airshow performer. It's a story of what it's like on the performer ramp, in the brief, and up in the box in front of the crowd. But, more than that, it's a story of three questions and what you owe to your 10-year-old self.
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Sun, 17 November 2013
In which I pick up a microphone and purport to entertain an airshow crowd (and confirm my suspicion that it's a lot harder than it looks). |
Sun, 3 November 2013
The first of a three-part series that takes you behind the scenes at airshows. In this episode, Airspeed takes you out to show center with the pyro crew at the 2012 TICO Valiant Air Command Warbird Airshow with Mark Sorenson and James Hammons of Tiger Airshows and The Ringmasters. |
Sat, 3 August 2013
The American Flight museum's AC-57 Spooky gunship. |
Sat, 3 August 2013
Karl Stoltzfus of Dynamic Aviation flew this beautiful DC-3/C-47 to Topeka to show her off to this crowd. His grandson, Gabriel (7) joined him to talk about the aircraft and its renovation. |
Sat, 3 August 2013
Greg Smith and his Beech 18. |
Sat, 3 August 2013
Bill Whiteman's T-28 Trojen - a RapidCast from the Gathering of Warbirds and Legends in Topeka. |
Fri, 2 August 2013
Talking abut a liaison aircraft among the heavy metal on the ramp at Topeka. |
Fri, 2 August 2013
Commemorative paratrooper MSgt (Ret) Robert Yarberry. |
Fri, 2 August 2013
The briefing from the practice day of the Gathering of Warbirds and Legends. |
Mon, 1 July 2013
The Airspeed audience first met ENS Evan Levesque (pronounced “leh-VECK”) as a MDN 1/C at the US Naval Academy in 2010. We then checked in with him during his primary flight training in the T-6B in February of 2012. Since then, ENS Levesque has gone on to tailhook training, flying the T-45 Goshawk. This episode features more than an hour of conversation with ENS Levesque about what it's like to fly jets and to prepare to land an aircraft on a floating runway. |
Sat, 23 February 2013
Meet B-52 and B-2 driver USAF Lt Col (Ret) Chris "Cliff" DeVaughn! We talked about the aircraft, its flight characteristics, and its mission. And, more importantly, we talked about what it's like to fly long-duration missions in one of the most important strategic weapons systems in the US inventory. All the way from the selection process through training and into combat. This is every bit as much about the men as the machines. |