Why was being a dab hand at sketching a desirable skill for a WW1 RAF pilot? 

If you go down to the woods today, you're sure of a big surprise.

Or at least the possibility of stumbling across a singing family and a scary bear with a shovel. 

This episode of Flying Back in Time is part of our Aerial Firefighting video podcast series.

In the first of this series of podcasts, we look at the early days of aerial firefighting in America. In the coming episodes we will take a look behind the scenes of this rather unique and challenging aviation sector.

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Was Charles Ritchie the first person to build and fly an aircraft in Persia?

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How do you communicate in the extremely noisy environment of an early 1950s helicopter?

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