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Join us as Jason Capra and the Vintage Wing Inc. team show us around 'Beach City Baby', a C-53 Skytrooper with an incredible history that takes in the early days of airlines in the United States, Air Transport Command's efforts in North Africa and her role in the growth of civil aviation in Ohio. She is getting a new set of wings, and you can find out how you can help too!

Check out all the latest Beach City Baby news via their website and socials below:

🛩️ https://www.vintagewingsinc.com/

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Donate and help get those wings on and 'Beach City Baby' back in the air here: https://www.vintagewingsinc.com/donate

Buy your 'Beach City Baby' merch here: https://stores.inksoft.com/VintageWingsInc/shop/products/all?page=1

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0:00 Meeting Beach City Baby

4:24 Wartime Service

7:36 Inside the Cabin

13:03 Ohio Governor's Aircraft

18:37 Modern Avionics Upgrade

22:58 Finding the Derelict DC-3

25:11 Meet the Wing Crew

27:27 Rewinging the C-53

30:50 Keeping Her Airworthy

36:56 Families Reunited Aloft

42:07 Where to Follow Vintage Wings

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I promise this is the last video on autographs and signatures, but I recently bought a mostly lovely print of Frank Wootton's Typhoon Squadron, which had had all the signatures cut out of it. This led me down a rabbit hole of looking at the commoditisation of these signatures and autographs, where the very rarest are now sliced out and added to both new and old artwork, all in the name of "exclusivity". I mean, we look at a Rommel signature in this one...

Erasing History Part 1: https://pod.fo/e/4276b7

Erasing History Part 2 with Dr Philip W Blood: https://pod.fo/e/55f3cb

The HushKit Typhoon t-shirt is available here: https://www.redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/This-Machine-Hawker-Typhoon-D-Day-Woody-Gutherie-by-HushKit/159678494/e22z

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0:00 Signatures as Commodities

2:56 Cutting Up Prints For Their Parts

5:19 Autographs on New Editions

8:07 No Historic Value

10:08 History for Sale

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Dr Philip W. Blood, author of 'Birds of Prey', joins us in this follow-up to our recent episode where I erased the noted Luftwaffe ace, Gunther Rall, signature, off of a print by Robert Taylor.

Phil and I delve into the truth about Luftwaffe complicity in the crimes of the Nazis during the Second World War and discuss the uncomfortable relationship with the regard to which those who survived were viewed.

Grab your copy of Phil's Birds of Prey: Hitler’s Luftwaffe, Ordinary Soldiers, and the Holocaust in Poland and War Comes to Aachen: The Nazis, Churchill and the 'Stalingrad of the West' at The Aviation Show Bookshop. 10% of every sale supports the show and independent bookshops.

Birds of Prey

UK Link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9783838215679

US Link: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9783838215679

War Comes to Aachen

UK Link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9781911723691

US Link: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9781911723691

You can listen to both parts of our Birds of Prey discussion with Dr. Philip Blood via the old History Hack podcast here on The Aviation Show website here: https://theaviation.show/hedge-hopping/

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0:00 Erasing History Debate

1:49 Collecting Luftwaffe Prints

7:38 Luftwaffe and Nazi Ideology

15:08 Signatures and Historical Value

17:56 Mass Signatures Questioned

27:59 Rudel and War Myths

36:32 Commercial Versus Historic Autographs

38:54 Erasure as History

46:57 Public Memory and Hero Worship

49:17 Anti-Semitism in Luftwaffe Stories

54:35 Final Solution and Aftermath

56:31 Auschwitz Book Preview

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The final Convair B-36J Peacemaker ever built, 52-2827 'City of Fort Worth', has been moved to the @PimaAirSpaceMuseum restorations hangar for some TLC after nearly 20-years in the Arizona sun. Scott Marchand, the Pima Air and Space Museum's CEO, joins us from the cockpit of the B-36 to discuss what is going to happen over the coming months as the B-36 is stripped back to bare metal and then given many new coats of paint.

Check out all the links to the Pima Air and Space Museum below!

Be sure to give Boneyard Safari a follow! Many thanks to Ramon Purcell for allowing use of his aerials and images in this episode.

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In 1955, Paramount Pictures released one of their tentpole VistaVision epics, Strategic Air Command, starring James Stewart and directed by his longtime collaborator, Anthony Mann. Strategic Air Command is peak, high-resolution, widescreen 1950s propaganda at its finest, and while not a great film (David and I argue about that aspect too!), its time and place in the building of the mythology of Curtis LeMay's US Air Force bombing arm offers a fascinating insight into the mindset of both LeMay and Jimmy Stewart.

David, the host of The Cold War channel on YouTube, joins me to bring our long-running Bluesky debate about this film to the channel and look at a film that had US military cooperation at a level that would make Michael Bay and Tom Cruise green with envy.

Check out The Cold War channel on YouTube here: https://www.youtube.com/@TheColdWarTV

Follow David on Bluesky here: https://bsky.app/profile/coldwarhost.bsky.social

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0:00 B-36 Takes Center Stage

5:25 Plot of a Propaganda Classic

12:13 LeMay Behind the Film

23:07 SAC’s Cold War Mission

31:24 LeMay’s Human Factor

36:27 From Hero to Ripper

42:42 Bombers, Missiles, and Madness

51:32 The Missing LeMay Biography

54:10 Weird Subplots and Standout Scenes

1:00:43 What’s Next for The Cold War?

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The new documentary, Beyond Blue Sky: The Untold Story of the First Private Astronauts, tells the story of Burt Rutan's Scaled Composites journey into space. In this episode we are joined by the film's director, Kevin Curran, and SpaceShipOne's Project Engineer, Matt Stinemetze, to discuss this incredible project that went from Burt Rutan announcing that they were going to space to winning the $10m Ansari X Prize in 2004.

Beyond Blue Sky: The Untold Story of the First Private Astronauts is a fantastic documentary and is available now on Apple TV and Amazon Prime in the UK and US.

Apple TV link: https://tv.apple.com/us/movie/beyond-blue-sky/umc.cmc.3scqjpza3p8lkaz5tr55ksmu9

Amazon link: https://www.primevideo.com/detail/0JIG217NYGEBJVVA0ESRKJ3NP2?ref_=atv_dp_share_cu_r

All clips from Beyond Blue Sky are used courtesy of Focus on the Signal LLC.

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The Sun is constantly changing; it is not just a constant ball of fire. Dr Ryan French joins us to tell us about the Sun's behaviour, space weather, and the impact of space hazards on Earth. So if you've ever wondered how solar activity affects our technology, the risks of space junk, and the future of space safety, then this is the show for you!

Check out Ryan's YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@Sun.Scientist

Find out more about Ryan French on his website at: www.ryanjfrench.com

Follow Ryan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sun.scientist/

Follow Ryan on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ryanjfrench

Follow Ryan on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/ryanjfrench.bsky.social

Grab a copy of Ryan's book, Space Hazards: Asteroids, Solar Flares and Cosmic Threats, at The Aviation Show Bookshop.org! 10% of all sales goes to supporting the show and independent bookshops.

UK Link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9780008688172

US Link: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9780008774660

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0:00 Sun Misconceptions

4:18 Solar Flares Explained

8:14 Space Weather Impacts

15:28 Forecasting Solar Storms

23:06 Protecting Critical Systems

26:32 The Space Junk Problem

31:46 Avoiding Orbital Debris

35:59 Cleaning Up Orbit

37:43 Asteroids and Meteors

39:58 Tracking Dangerous Rocks

42:50 Impact Risks on Earth

45:43 Wrapping Up

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The Hawker Typhoon and the 3" Rocket Projectile, the RP-3, have a special place in the annals of the Second World War. In this first part of a series looking at the Hawker Typhoon, we take a deep dive into the RP-3 and some of the realities of this legendary, if wonderfully inaccurate, weapon.

Check out The Aviation Historian website and get your copy of the new annual edition here: https://www.theaviationhistorian.com/

If you want to see the RP-3 animation by Marcin Gabryelczyk used in this video, you can check it out here: https://sketchfab.com/3d-models/game-art-3inch-rp-3-rockets-6-variants-4fb022462efb4d1d80417f15c311e3aa

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0:00 RP-3 Rocket Origins

2:24 Rocket Design Revealed

3:54 Early Typhoon Testing

5:06 Desert Tank-Buster Trials

7:57 Normandy Training Begins

10:27 Rockets Under Combat Fire

12:19 Witness at Mortain

13:06 Claims Versus Reality

15:06 Typhoon’s True Impact

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I was recently given two prints by the renowned aviation artist, the late Robert Taylor. One is going on the wall, the other... Well, that is the focus of this video, as why would I want the signature of a man like Günther Rall, an ardent servant of fascism, hanging on my wall?

You can listen to both parts of our Birds of Prey discussion with Dr. Philip Blood via The Aviation Show website here:

https://theaviation.show/hedge-hopping/

You can grab a copy of Birds of Prey by Dr. Philip W. Blood at The Aviation Show Bookshop. 10% of each sale supports the show.

UK Link: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/11015/9783838215679

US Link: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9783838215679

Jonathan Glancy's 2004 Guardian interview with Rall can be found here: https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2004/dec/30/1

Rall's obituary in The Daily Telegraph which includes Dr Richard P. Hallion's remarks, can be found via the Wayback Machine here: https://web.archive.org/web/20091015045404/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/air-force-obituaries/6299837/Generalleutnant-Gnther-Rall.html

Find out moe about the Foundation of Hamburg Memorials and Learning Centres and the Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial on their YouTube channel  @neuengamme.memorial  and website here: https://www.gedenkstaetten-hamburg.de/en/

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The B-1B Lancer has been in service for 40-years and her later life has been incredibly busy. With the Lancer's replacement, the B-21 Raider, taking to the skies, you would think the B-1B could look forward to a well earned rest. But, as Kenneth P. Katz brings up to date on the B-1's story, we see that the Lancer's story is far from done.

Buy The Supersonic BONE: A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber by Kenneth P. Katz at The Aviation Show Bookshop. 10% of each sale supports the show.

UK: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/16621/9781399020299

US: https://bookshop.org/a/111804/9781399020299

Thumbnail image kindly provided by Ed Parsons. Check out Ed's photography at: https://photos.edparsons.com/

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0:00 The B-1's Evolving Role

1:45 Modernization and Technological Updates

3:41 Recent Incidents and Losses

7:18 Sustainability Challenges

8:59 Parts and Supply Chain Issues

11:28 Future of the B-1 Bomber

15:35 Recent Combat Operations

19:17 The B-1's Endurance and Future Prospects

22:52 The Legacy of the B-1 Bomber, so far

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