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Join host Stephen Force for coverage of aviation and aerospace that includes general aviation, space exploration, military aviation, flight music, and a healthy dose of flying philosophy.... more
FAQs about Airspeed:How many episodes does Airspeed have?The podcast currently has 239 episodes available.
May 04, 2020Airspeed - Downwind Dashes and Other Long-Distance Soaring with Tony CondonTony Condon is as an ATP and corporate pilot who also serves as the president of the Kansas Soaring Association, headquartered at Sunflower Gliderport. We sat down and talked about long-distance cross-country soaring....more53minPlay
April 19, 2020Airspeed - From Hell to Namibia and Back Again with John HarteJohn Harte is glider CFI and chief instructor at Sanhill Soaring Club in Gregory, Michigan, just a few miles down the road from Hell. (Hell, Michigan, that is.) He's also a tow pilot, aerobatic pilot, airshow performer, and FAST formation lead. Here's an hour and a half in conversation with John....more1h 41minPlay
April 12, 2020Airspeed - Hangar Flying with Kent ShookKent and I are sequestered in our respective locations at SARS-CoV-2 sweeps the nation, so we thought we'd record a podcast episode....more1h 24minPlay
September 19, 2017Airspeed - The Eudaemonic PieWe made an audiobook! Steve narrated the audiobook version of Thomas A. Bass's The Eudaemonic Pie. The book tells the story of a band of physicists and computer wizards in the late 1970s and early 1980s who set out to beat roulette in Las Vegas with computers in their shoes. A story of science, art, and the birth of the hacker culture. The episode contains a brief account of the making of the audiobook and the entire prologue of the audiobook itself....more58minPlay
September 11, 2016Airspeed - Because Glider - Part 2The second in a two-part series chronicling the long road to becoming a CFI. In this episode, our hero suffers more indignation at the hands of a check airman who calls off Christmas, after which he begins the long slog down the self-launch mountain, through the valley, and back up the adjacent peak of aerotow....more1h 38minPlay
September 04, 2016Airspeed - Because Glider - Part 1Here's Part 1 of the epic quest for the CFI certificate. It covers everything from deciding to go for the certificate up to the failed attempt to transition to a different motorglider at a faraway school. Part 2 is already recorded and will be up soon. In the meantime, enjoy the comedy and the tragedy that is pursuing a glider CFI ride in a world not equipped to make that ride happen....more1h 29minPlay
August 07, 2016Airspeed - River Days Airshow 2016 - Part 1Jack Hodgson takes the bully mic for a pre-show discussion of what it takes to put on a hometown airshow in some of the most complicated airspace in North America....more1h 14minPlay
June 09, 2016Airspeed - The AssignmentAn eighth-grade language arts assignment from FOD becomes an Airspeed episode. A father's expectations for his son at 14....more25minPlay
June 27, 2015Airspeed - River Days Airshow - Part 4 - DebriefDavid Allen (on the bully mic) and Dean Greenblatt (BIRD from the show) join Steve to debrief the first-ever airshow over the Detroit River....more1h 23minPlay
May 25, 2015Airspeed - River Days Airshow - Part 3 - Fast FootworkThis is the third installment of the series that covers - in near-realtime - the events leading up to the GM Detroit River Days Airshow on the Detroit River 20-21 June 2015. As before, David Allen of Other People's Airplanes has taken the mic and is running the show in order to keep things moving....more1h 9minPlay
FAQs about Airspeed:How many episodes does Airspeed have?The podcast currently has 239 episodes available.