Flown West
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Aeronauts, ducks, aviatrices, anhedral, terminals, slips and skids all have their place in aviation but where do these strange terms come from… particularly that old phrase, “He’s flown West.”
Mare’s Tails and Wooly Fleece
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Luke Howard, the man who changed castles into Cumulus and mares tails into Cirrus. No weather forecast would be complete without his system.
Cumulus cloud.
Cirrus cloud.
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Acabashi and PiccoloNamek.
Killing Myths
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An attempt to distill the crash of Air France 447 down to the the simple causes and dispel some of the fanciful and unhelpful theories that surround this accident.
The accident aircraft, an A330-200.
The location of the wreckage of Flight 447.
Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Pawel Kierzkowski, Valter Campanato/ABr and Roberto Maltchik Repórter da TV Brasil.
Joe Gilmore – Revisited
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My first Plane Tale when they weren’t really a thing… the story of Joe Gilmore remastered, re-recorded and revisited. This was the vital British addition to the Apollo mission to put men on the Moon!
Otherwise known as the Four Score and Ten… created for Sir Winston Churchill on his 90th Birthday.
The drink that the first Moon walking Apollo astronauts tasted after their mission quarantine ended.
Created to celebrate the Apollo-Souyz joint project to join up in space.
Joe Gilmore’s supposed hangover cure!
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A Four Star Conversation
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A conversation with Sir Richard Johns KCB KCVO CBE and retired Chief of the Air Force about his love of military history.
Images by NickAndersonPhoto.co.uk
Gone for a Burton
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An explanation of some of the strange terms that we bandy about in aviation.
Image under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Raff.
