Steve & Grant are joined by their friend Owen Zupp who has recently finished re-enacting the first airmail flight in Australia to help celebrate its centenary. He’s also recently launched a new website called The Pilots Blog, seen great traffic from his new book Fifty More Tales of Flight, been in France with the new A350 and been busy with way more exciting aviation related activities than we have time to cover.
The boys are back and they’re trying to remember how to make an AusDesk. Fortunately they remember how to do it and can tell us about Air New Zealand’s new 787-9 arriving in Auckland and the customised Zodiac seats in Economy class. They also talk about Australia’s Defence Science Technology Organisation being commissioned to produce the F35 ‘Iron Bird’ test unit.
PS: We also have bloopers for this episode which you can listen to via the player below:
This episode saw the Airplane Geeks on site at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum for the Become a Pilot Day. Unfortunately, our frequent flyer points wouldn’t stretch far enough to get us across the Pacific to be there, so we sat this episode out.
Grant’s sulking because Max forgot his name last week* and it takes all Steve’s producer skills (and a few beers) to get him back into the groove. Once that’s achieved, it’s on with the show:
One final item is a gratuitous plug for our latest episode of the Plane Crazy Down Under show, where we spend a lot of time going into some depth on the F35 and effort required to bring it online with the RAAF. It’s getting great reviews and if you want to hear lots of juicy info on the F35, the helmet, how the aircraft is best used and what’s involved in bringing such new technology into the RAAF, this is the one for you :)
PS: We also have bloopers for this episode which you can listen to via the player below:
* Listen to the blooper at the end of Episode 301 to hear Max forget Grant’s name. Ooops :)
Sorry folks, Steve’s off driving trains and Grant’s work is driving him crazy with regulatory compliance matters. No time for an AusDesk this week but we’ll be back next week, honest :)
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