Hangar 49 has gone full circle.  That’s a wrap for our 14^th season and our 165^th show.  So, business is business and our corporate bigwigs for the huge media conglomerate that owns the show has put their foot down.  Yep, this show contains a commercial break, just before the news segment.  Stay tuned after that for the top aviation news of the day, movie, music, interviews, and more.  All in this great show.

Movie: The Hindenburg (1975)

Book:  Aircraft-The Definitive Visual History by DK Smithsonian

Interview:  Jeanie Brady-Practicing Kindness at 30,000 Feet

Website:  FAA Flight Delay Information

Song:  Joni Mitchell/Amelia

Destination/Places to Fly To:  Airports in low places-Death Valley

Comedy/Sound:  Nathan McIntosh-Pilots Should be Richer Than Rap Stars

The world of aviation has great people, and when they get together it creates great vibes.  When the Hangar 49 team gets together, our mission is to create more of those vibes.  In this show, we create some great vibes…and we get to listen to some great music created with vibes.  You gotta to listen to find out….and that’s a fact!  Oh, we also do a lot of fact-checking in the show, including checking our own facts.

Movie:  Airport 1975

Book:  Airport by Arthur Hailey

Interview:  Ravn Air-Diana Miller

Website: Seat Guru

Song:  Flying Home/Lionel Hampton Quintet
and a vocal version by Ella Fitzgerald and the:

Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival/University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 

Destination/Places to Fly To: Historic Aircraft Resoration Museum-Maryland Height Missouri

Comedy/Sound:  Bob Newhart-Air Traffic Controller (from the Smothers Brothers Show)

It’s our latest episode:  “Steamy Movie and a Graphic Novel!”  We understand marketing…and how to build a big audience with a catchy title.  See, we already got you to read this far.  Give a listen and find out what we are really talking about.  (Oh…by the end of this show, we’ll still be rated PG (Pretty Good.)

Movie: The Carpetbaggers (1964)

Book:  Hero’s of Flight by Dan Green

Interview:  Mark Baker/AOPA

Website: Oleg Antonov State Aviation Museum-Kviv, Ukraine

Song: Walter Murphy Band-Flight ‘76

Destination/Places to Fly To:  Bella Coola, BC

Comedy/Sound: If Cops Talked Like Pilots

We've been doing this show for nearly 6 years and we strive for perfection.  But, hey, sometimes we make mistakes.  OK, sometimes Al makes mistakes.  Let's just move on.  It's a great show with a great flick, song, interview, book, sound, etc.

Movie:  China Clipper (1936)

Song:  Top Gun Anthem - Harold Faltermeyer and Tony Scott  or someone

Book:  I Could Never Be So Lucky by Jimmy Doolittle

Website:  Ann Arbor Flyers Club, Ann Arbor Michigan (75th Anniversary)

Sound:  10 funniest airline parodies

Destination: Nelson, British Columbia, Canada

Interview:  Andrew Broom-HondaJet

Welcome to our show.  In this episode Jim talks about critical aviation topics, Al talks about his airplane in the shop, and Tony talks about his dog.  As usual, we have a great movie, great song, and a great book.  Plus, because many listeners don't understand Jim & Al's inside jokes or Tony's British humour, we brought in a professional comedian.

Song: Royal Guardsman-My Airplane

Movie: Fighter Squadron

Interview:  Mark Baker-AOPA President

Book:  Aviation at the Edge-John Flexman

Website:  ShareAviation dot Com - A YouTube network for pilots

Destination:  Aviation Summer Camps

Sound:  Comedy/"First Class, Wrong Flight" By Mark Lowry

It's our Diamond Jubilee.  Yep...our 75th episode and our 4th anniversary.  Listen for this special Tribute - To us...for hanging in there and keeping Jim's dream alive for 4 years.

Song - Straighten Up and Fly Right - Nat King Cole

Movie - Keep 'Em Flying

Aviation History - The Besler Steam Powered Airplane (1933)

Book - Return to Rhinebeck: Flying Vintage Aeroplanes

Destination - Russian Federation Air Force Museum

Bonus Song - Flintstones/Happy Anniversary

Thanks for listening...and hanging in there with us for the last 75 shows and 4 years.  We hope you enjoy these shows as much as we enjoy creating them.  Here's to the next 75 and 4.

Jim, Al, and Tony.

This is the first day of the Arlington Air show, 2012 and we recorded our program from a live worldwide broadcast. Jim was a little late arriving to the show and Al and Tony were not going to let that slide.

We talk about airplanes on the flight line, electric airplanes, avionics for airplanes, movies about airplanes, and a song that people hum when then learn to fly airplanes.

Movie:  Memphis Belle
Book:  Vintage Aircraft Nose Art by Gary Valant
Song:  Gonna Fly Now

Join Jim, Tony, Al and Special guest interviewer Philip Randolph on the flight line in the first of three "live" episodes.

Number 50!

Well we finally hit 50 episodes! Now onto the next 50.

Join us in this episode as check out awared winning video "A day in the Life of a Fighter Pilot" Great video!

Movie:  A Day in the Life of a Fighter-Raytheon 2012 Award Winner



Book:  Flying Carpet-Greg brown


Sound:  Flying RC Jet


Song:The Spitfire-The War room PSB


Destination:  Princeton BC

This episode Al takes a gamble!

We also talk movies, books, and music!

Movie:  Victory Through Air Power (1943)

In this episode we talk about Mogas of course!

Jim talks with Tim Bovee and a couple of other racers about the Great Pacific Northwest Air Race.

Jim interviews Brian Carroll about the upcoming Big Sky Air Race

News: Liberty Bell burned after a perfect landing.

         LightSquared changes spectrum

         A380 clips building at Paris Air Show

         When chatting during a flight make sure your mic isn't on!

Movie of the Week is: Catch 22