Join us as those three wacky pilots get serious (sort of) and gather around the tree for some holiday flying banter.  This episode is
filled with holiday cheer, great movies, music, and even some poetry (hey....we got culture) as we call a "wrap" to 2012.

Christmas Story: The Shepherd by Alan Maitland of the CBC
Christmas Song: Snoopy's Christmas by The Royal Guardsman
Bonus Christmas Song:  Christmas in the Trenches by John McCutcheon
Christmas Movie:  The Flight Before Christmas
Christmas Book: 11 Days in December-Christmas at the Bulge 1944 by Stanley Weintraub
Christmas Gift:  2013 Calendar

We'll see you all in 2013.  Look for our next episode in mid-January (Yep.  We're giving the production staff more time off.)

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from Jim, Al & Tony

We made a theme show this time.  It's all about the RAF.  Yep, the movie, song, book, and sound are all about the Royal Air Force.  Plus, we take another nostalgic trip with Al back to Palm Springs for another interview at the AOPA Summit.

Movie: Dark Blue World
Book:  RAF Fighter Command Pilot The Western Front  1939 - 1942
Song: Horrible Histories RAF Song
Aircraft Sound: Spitfire v Messerschmitt
Interview topic: The Aviators

Don't forget to join us at the Arlington Fly-In in July 2013.  We'll be there!

Thanks for stopping by.

Jim, Al & Tony.

It's another episode of Hanagar 49.  Join us as Jim and Tony try to educate Al on music newer than 1979, we preview a new movie, Tony has a great book, plus, Al interviews a couple of great Flying Wild Alaska pilots.  Oh...Jim says a bad word and Mickey stops by.

Book:  West With The Night by Beryl Markham

Movie: Flight

Song:  The Aeroplane Flies High - The Smashing Pumpkins

Aircraft Sound - and super cool video: Dehavilland  Mosquito

Thanks for listening and tell your friends.

After some tough duty, on assignment for Hangar 49 in Palm Springs, Al returns with a great Pirep and a cool interview with probably the most famous couple in general aviation.  Plus...Jim tries to sing.  All this and more in the latest episode of Hangar 49.

Destination:  Palm Springs, California
Destination Attraction:  Palm Springs Air Museum
Interview:  John and Martha King/King Schools
Movie: Final Countdown
Website:  Spitfirebooks.com
Book:  The Hawker Hurricane - Francis D Mason  (see above site)
Song:  The Immelman Turn - Al Stewart
Sound:  Hawker Hurricane

Plus:  It's breast cancer awareness month
And a blog by Jim's friend Erin, a cancer patient

We are back in the saddle again.  After several months of R&R, the Hangar 49 crew is back on the internet.  Did you miss us?  Follow those wacky pilots as they battle technical difficulties to bring you the very latest in aero-babble.

Sound:  Avro Lancaster

Song:  Arlo Guthrie – Coming Into Los Angeles (1969 Woodstock version)

Movie:  FLYING THE SECRET SKY: The Story of the RAF Ferry Command

Book:  Flying on Instinct: Canada's Bush Pilot Pioneers (Amazing Stories) by L.D. Cross

Bonus Song:  Back in the Saddle Again - Gene Autry

Our special tribute to a flying legend:  Charlie Stoudt Adventures

Welcome to our third episode that recorded live at the Arlington Fly-In.  OK, we know that was July, but it's the summer rerun season on TV, why not on your favorite podcast.  Yes, we were actually sitting next to an active taxiway while we recorded this show.  If this were television, you would see the drool marks on Jim's shirt every time an airplane went by.

Enjoy.

Movie: Red Tails

Song:  Mary Chapin Carpenter-Why Walk When You Can Fly.

Books: Military Low Level Flying Aircraft and the Pilots Who Fly Them by Michael Leek
           101 Things to Do With Your Private Pilot License by LeRoy Cook

Yep!  Here we are again.  Your three wayward pilots are broadcasting live (and recorded for your enjoyment) sitting just inches away from the Arlington Fly-In Flight line.  Listen in amazement as throaty-engined World War II radial engines spray propwash and mess up their finely-combed hairstyles.  We recorded this episode on July 13, 2012.  OK, we're a little late in posting this.  Hey...the production staff was on another vacation.

Song:  Lenny Kravitz - Fly Away

Book:  For God, Country, and the Thrill of It: Women Airforce Service Pilots in World War II by Anne Noggle

Movie:  Always (1989)

Thanks for listening.  Tells your friends.

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.

In this episode we explore Tony's past as a key player in the British music scene of the 1960's.  Oh...and we talk a little bit about aviation.

Here are the links we talked about in the show:

Song: Jigsaw - Sky High (1975)

Bonus Song:  The Beatles - Flying
 
Movie:  Wing and a Prayer (1944)
 
Book: Stick and Rudder by Wolfgang Langewiesche

Concrete, WA Fly-In

Manchester Beat  (Yes...Tony was really there!)

See you next time!  Jim, Tony, and Al

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

Nope!  The three busy pilot/hosts couldn't concentrate on a theme for this programme, so there isn't a clever, double-meaning title.  We could have called it "Call in for pizza" but we didn't agree on a flavor.  It could have been "the episode we didn't record because we weren't there," but Tony didn't like the movie either.  Maybe "Fly Away," but that would just highlight the song.

What we should have done was make a really big deal out of the fact that this is the 49th episode of Hangar 49, but we were so busy blabbing, we forgot.  So....just listen and enjoy.  The links to the stuff we talked about are below.

Song:  Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz  (Theme from Ice Pilots NWT)

Book:  99 Ways to Make a Flight Attendant Fly--Off the Handle!: A Guide for the Novice or Oblivious Air Traveler by Joann Deveny

Movie:  Capricorn One

Sound:  B-36 takeoff

By the way, everything we say about the production staff is just made up.  Really, they are the hardest working, most talented, and just fun to be around people you would ever want to meet.  In fact, they have reaped rewards beyond belief from their talents that they work from a villa in the south of France and just step inside on a break from tanning to do this show.

Welcome to our 48th episode.  This time we discuss the Great Northwest Air Race and the entry of our very own "Rocket" in the event, plus the usual lineup of movies, music, and mumblings.  Enjoy.

Movie: Rocket to the Moon

Song:  Rocket to the Moon-Moon Mullican (1953)

Sound:  Winston Churchill

Website:  Canadian Aviator Magazine

Book:  No Empty Chairs: The Short and Heroic Lives of the Young Aviators Who Fought and Died in the First World War by
Ian Mackersey 

News Item:  Priest Lake/Cavanaugh Bay (66S) Snow Landing

Destination:  Amelia's Landing Hotel, Port Aransas, TX

In this episode, Tony reveals the secret alien landing zone so we can all be there when they land.  Then, come with us down memory lane when we review the entire series of "Airport" movies.  These are the films that started it all.

Song: Rose Garden-Next Plane to London

Movie: Airport

Sound: Nothing like a Merlin

Book - A Hundred Feet Over Hell: Flying With the Men of the 220th Recon Airplane Company Over I Corps and the DMZ, Vietnam 1968-1969 by Jim Hooper

Destination: White Rock/Hazelmore Field Intergalactic Airport

Fun Toy: Icon Aircraft

Cool website: www.skymasterjet.com

This is a very special episode of Hangar 49.  Yep...it's our 2nd birthday.  Jim, Al, and Tony have been entertaining pilots since February 2010.  Join us as we celebrate.  We even saved a piece of birthday cake for you.

Movie:  Top Gun (I can’t believe we’ve missed this one)
Song:  Kenny Loggins – Danger Zone (Ditto)
Bonus Song:  The Beatles – Happy Birthday 
Book:  Topgun Days: Dogfighting, Cheating Death, and Hollywood Glory as One of America's Best Fighter Jocks  by  Dave "Bio" Baranek 
Destination:  Miramar Air Show, Miramar Marine Corps Air Station, Oct 12-14, 2012  
Web Site:  Miramar Air Show (Of course!!)
Sound:  Three Flight F-14 Carrier Launch 

Enjoy the show (and your cake...go ahead...you can eat it!)

After an unexcused absence, Jim decides to show up for the show....only to leave early for "another engagement."  Stay with us while Tony and Al once again carry their own weight., plus Jimmy's, to keep this programme on the air..er...internet.  Why do we keep paying this guy?

Song:  Wooden Planes - Art Garfunkel

Destination: Pacific Northwest Aviation Conference

Movie:  The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)

Book:  The Rogue Aviator: In the Back Alleys of Aviation, 2nd Edition by Ace Abbott

Website:  Incredible Adventures

Sound:  Curtis Jenny

The next episode will be our second anniversary spectacular.  Hopefully, we will remember to celebrate.  (Or..even remember that it's our second anniversary.  We are getting older.)

Jim was too busy hob-nobbing with corporate executives to join us on this episode...Big Mistake.  Listen to Tony and Al run Jimmy through the wringer.  Will he ever come back?

Movie: Red Tails

Song: Ozzie Osborne-Flying High Again

Book:  Tales of An Old Bold Pilot Who Lived To Tell His Story Of Flying The North by Jack McCallum

Destination:  Northwest Aviation Conference

Website:  The Airplanes of James Bond

Sound:  Several to choose from.  Just listen to the show.

Watch for our fabulous Second Anniversary show.  Coming soon!