Top Landing Gear

Top Landing Gear episodes:

• 03.25.2024

  Aboard Aviation Filming's Fleet of Boeing 747s

  Welcome to Top Landing Gear and our bonus edition of Full Flaps from Dunsfold Aerodrome. In our previous episode we spoke with Aviation Filming's owner Mike Woodley. In this episode we make our way out onto the apron and get...

  
• 03.18.2024

  Mike Woodley - Aviation Filming

  Welcome to Top Landing Gear Full Flaps and our full length interview with Mike Woodley, owner of Aviation Filming Ltd based at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey.  The company specialises in aviation content for film and TV, including a huge number of...

  
• 03.12.2024

  Dunsfold Aerodrome: Home of the Hunter and the Harrier

  Welcome to Top Landing Gear as we turn our attention to an airfield that is close to all of us, both emotionally and geographically: Dunsfold Aerodrome, home of the Hunter and the Harrier. It was also used as the studio and...

  
• 02.13.2024

  A Tour of Croydon Airport with A380 Captain Ian Walker

  Join the Top Landing Gear team as they are given a tour of Croydon Airport by A380 Captain Ian Walker, former chairman of the Croydon Airport Trust.    Opening in the 1920s, Croydon was London's, indeed the UK's main international airport. Arguably the...

  
• 02.05.2024

  Croydon Airport

  Top Landing Gear returns as we continue series 5 by going further back in aviation history than we've ever gone before, to the earliest days of commercial air travel with our visit to the historic Croydon Aerodrome.   Opening in the 1920s,...

  
• 01.31.2024

  THE YEAR: 2024 - AND TOP LANDING GEAR IS BACK!

  We delivered our last podcast - as in most recent -back in May 2023 - when we were in the middle of series 5. We were literally on our way to Roy's studio to record our next editions when he...

  
• 01.30.2024

  Top Landing Gear is coming back...

  We are coming back!  A short trailer to get you in the mood for the rest of Series Five (Part Deux)

  
• 05.09.2023

  Bizjet Falcon 7X Captain, Mark Blois-Brooke

  Welcome to Top Landing Gear Full Flaps, where we bring you the most thrilling stories and captivating interviews from the world of aviation. Today, we are thrilled to present our full-length interview with none other than Bizjet pilot extraordinaire, Mark...

  
• 04.26.2023

  Private Jets

  Hello and welcome to Top Landing Gear, the aviation podcast for everyone. Join Rob, Jez, James and Roy as we learn about the glamorous world of business jets and hear a snippet of next weeks interview with Falcon 7X Captain...

  
• 04.18.2023

  The Spitfire Factory - Tony Hoskins takes us around the Airframe Assemblies workshop

  Welcome to Top Landing Gear Full Flaps and the second part of our interview with Tony Hoskins who is restoring a rare photo reconnaissance Spitfire PR4 to full flight. Back in 2018 Tony and his team recovered the wreckage of Spitfire...

  
• 04.11.2023

  Tony Hoskins - Restoring Sandy’s Spitfire

  Welcome to Top Landing Gear Full Flaps and the first part of our interview with Tony Hoskins who is restoring a rare photo reconnaissance Spitfire PR4 to full flight. Back in 2018 Tony and his team recovered the wreckage of Spitfire...

  
• 04.04.2023

  Aerial reconnaissance and Restoring Sandy’s Spitfire AA810

  Welcome to Top Landing Gear and the first episode proper of Series Five. Along with our usual catch up and 'Ask James' feature we talk aerial reconnaissance and hear the remarkable story of a very special Spitfire. We speak to engineer...

  
• 03.30.2023

  Audacious Aviation - Alan Pollock and the Hawker Hunter that flew through Tower Bridge.

  A massive thank you to all our listeners. So many wonderful words across social media about the return of Top Landing Gear this week. After we mentioned it in last weeks episode we thought it only right to repeat our Audacious...

  
• 03.27.2023

  The last 747 and airport near misses - Catching up on the latest aviation news and looking ahead to Series Five

  Hello and welcome back to Top Landing Gear. The aviation podcast for everyone. After several months in the wilderness we’re back with a brand new series. Today we catch up on the latest aviation news and look forward to what’s...

  
• 03.26.2023

  Series Five Starts Tomorrow

  Top Landing Gear is back... (Well it will be tomorrow on TLG Tuesday!) Here's a quick overview of what we've got coming up over the coming weeks. If you have a topic that you think we should cover this year or...

  
• 10.13.2022

  TLG on Eggheads Special

  Hello and welcome back to Top Landing Gear after a bit of a hiatus during the summer. But we haven’t been totally idle in that time. Having said that we’re not launching the new series just yet.  This episode, to be...

  
• 07.23.2022

  Traveling by air this summer? Interview and travel advice with aviation expert Jeremy Spake

  Welcome to Top Landing Gear and our final episode of the series, one to put a spring in your step if you’re heading off on your summer holidays. As we are all too well aware, the aviation sector has struggled...

  
• 06.29.2022

  Full Flaps - the Jet Engine - Interview with Ian Whittle, Son of Frank Whittle

  Hello and Welcome to TLG and to the second stage of our Full Flaps interview with Ian Whittle, son of Sir Frank, the man who invented the jet engine. Ian told us so much in part one, you’d hardly believe...

  
• 06.23.2022

  Full Flaps - The Jet Engine - Interview with Ian Whittle, son of Sir Frank Whittle - Part One

  Hello and welcome to Top Landing Gear Full Flaps, and to the full length interview with Ian Whittle, son of Sir Frank Whittle, the man credited with one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, something that changed the...

  
• 06.23.2022

  PLATINUM JUBILEE BONUS EPISODE - Typhoon Formation Pilot, SQN LDR Zane Sennett

  The nation came together over 4 days in June to mark the extraordinary milestone of HM The Queen's 70 year reign.  One of the highlights of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations was the flypast over London of 70 aircraft from the Royal Navy, the...

  
• 06.17.2022

  Sir Frank Whittle and the Jet Engine

  This episode of Top Landing Gear might in itself not be worthy of going down in history, but it’s all about one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, something that changed the world forever – the jet engine....

  
• 06.13.2022

  Lancaster - Our first impression of the 2022 Film

  Join Roy, Jim & Jez in the pub after watching a screening of the new Lancaster movie. It was produced by the same people who gave us 'Spitfire' in 2018 - The film that made Jez cry in the cinema...

  
• 06.08.2022

  PLATINUM JUBILEE BONUS EPISODE - Typhoon Formation Pilot, SQN LDR Zane Sennett

  The nation came together over 4 days in June to mark the extraordinary milestone of HM The Queen's 70 year reign.  One of the highlights of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations was the flypast over London of 70 aircraft from the Royal Navy, the...

  
• 05.27.2022

  Full Flaps - Rear Admiral Chris Parry CBE

  Hello and welcome to TLG and our Full Flaps interview with Chris Parry, a RN Observer on HMS Antrim’s Wessex 3, known as Humphrey. Chris is a fascinating character, and some of the stories he tells us here about what...

  
• 05.20.2022

  Falklands 40th – The Westland Wessex & Chris Parry

  In this edition of Top Landing Gear we continue to mark the 40th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict, focussing on one of the workhorses of the British Task Force’s airborne operation, the venerable Westland Wessex. Now of course our aviation...

  
• 05.13.2022

  Interview with Squadron Leader Martin Withers, DFC - Display pilot for Vulcan XH558

  In part two of our interview with Martin Withers, he relives the joy of displaying what was the last surviving Vulcan, XH558. It was an unexpected and hugely welcome chapter to his flying career after he had flown two of...

  
• 05.06.2022

  Interview with Squadron Leader Martin Withers, DFC - Vulcan XM607 pilot during the Falklands Black Buck raid

  In this 40th anniversary year of the Falklands Conflict we devote two Full Flaps editions to Martin Withers who flew Avro Vulcan XM607 on the historic Black Buck Raids on Stanley Airfield. Martin and his crew were actually the reserve...

  
• 04.28.2022

  The Vulcan & the 40th Anniversary of Falklands War Operation Black Buck

  This week’s podcast drops in a very timely manner as we release the first of our episodes  marking the 40th anniversary of the Falklands Conflict. Specifically this week’s episode features the magnificent Avro Vulcan and the Black Buck Raids flown...

  
• 04.21.2022

  The Best of Top Landing Gear and Series Four Preview

  We’re delighted to finally get series 4 of our aviation podcast Top Landing Gear up and flying – at last! We’re kicking off this first episode with a look back at some of our favourite topics and guest interviews from...

  
• 04.20.2022

  Top Landing Gear returns...

  Top Landing Gear Series Four starts this week.    A quick two minute preview from Rob and a reminder of who we are, what we do and that there is a quiz!

  
• 11.23.2021

  BBMF Bomber Leader - Flight Lieutenant Neil ‘Faz‘ Farrell - Lancaster Pilot

  In our final interview from our trip to Lincoln the TLG team talk to Flight Lieutenant Neil 'Faz' Farrell inside the iconic BBMF hangar at RAF Coningsby. As we walk around Lancaster PA474 Neil tells us about his experiences as Bomber...

  
• 11.16.2021

  The Battle of Britain Memorial Flight (BBMF) & Lancaster PA474

  The team are finally back together as a foursome in the studio - well, not quite the studio but backstage at GLive in Guildford just before Roy takes to the stage on the Surrey leg of his SFG 2021 tour.In...

  
• 10.21.2021

  RAF Chinook Display Team - Flt Lt Matt Smyth

  Welcome to TLG and to our series of interviews from the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival. Regular listeners to TLG will know that our aviation expert James Cartner is a former RAF Puma pilot. As such he has some kind of weird...

  
• 10.18.2021

  Air Vice Marshall Simon Edwards - Assistant Chief of The Air Staff.

  Welcome to TLG and to our series of interviews from the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival. We were extremely honoured to be invited to the Festival’s opening ceremony which was attended not only by some of the show’s participants but also some...

  
• 10.15.2021

  The Tigers Army Parachute Display Team - Pte Will Simms

  Welcome to TLG and to our series of interviews from the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival.   Both the RAF and the Royal Navy took part in the flying display at Bournemouth, as did the Army, who were superbly represented by the Tigers...

  
• 10.13.2021

  RAF Typhoon Display Team - Flt Lt Sainty

  Welcome to TLG and to our series of interviews from the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival. There are those whose sole reason for attending an airshow is to watch and hear the old piston-engined fighters and bombers from WWII, and indeed few...

  
• 10.06.2021

  How do you book an air show? Interview with Bournemouth Air Festival Director Jon Weaver.

  Welcome to TLG and to our series of interviews from the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival. Since its launch in 2008, the Bournemouth Air Festival has established itself as one of the UK’s leading public aviation events, and is estimated to generate...

  
• 09.30.2021

  The AeroSuperBatics Wingwalkers at the 2021 Bournemouth Air FestivalS

  Welcome to TLG and to our series of interviews from the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival. No airshow would be complete without the intrepid AeroSuperBatics Wingwalkers who’ve been thrilling airshow crowds all over the world since they were founded back in 1984....

  
• 09.27.2021

  How do you run an airshow over the sea? Interview with Dave Walton, Display Director of the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival.

  Welcome to TLG and to our series of interviews from the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival. Putting on an airshow requires an immense amount of organisation, and safety is of course paramount. But when a display takes place over the sea, and...

  
• 09.24.2021

  Rich Goodwin and the Pitts Special at the 2021 Bournemouth Festival

  Welcome to TLG and to our series of interviews from the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival. One of the most eye-catching solo displays at UK airshows is the ultra high-energy performance by Rich Goodwin in his Pitts Special. A former RAF Tornado...

  
• 09.21.2021

  The Red Arrows at the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival

  Welcome to TLG and to our series of interviews from the 2021 Bournemouth Air Festival. With the 2021 airshow season in the UK drawing to a close, what better time to speak to Red 6, Squadron Leader Jon Bond, as he...

  
• 09.06.2021

  FULL FLAPS - The TLG team go gliding with Lincolnshire‘s Trent Valley Gliding Club

  After several hi-octane podcasts celebrating the magic of the Merlin-powered Avro Lancaster, and the roar of the mighty Eurofighter Typhoon, we’re back with, not so much a bang, but definitely not a whimper either, in fact more of a whoosh....

  
• 08.30.2021

  Gliding

  After several hi-octane podcasts celebrating the magic of the Merlin-powered Avro Lancaster, and the roar of the mighty Eurofighter Typhoon, we’re back with, not so much a bang, but definitely not a whimper either, in fact more of a whoosh....

  
• 08.10.2021

  FULL FLAP - In the Typhoon simulator with Flt Lt Nick Callinswood at RAF Coningsby

  Welcome to our second FULL FLAPS Eurofighter Typhoon episode. During our trip to RAF Coningsby the TLG team was given unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the Typhoon operation. In this second episode you can hear Rob flying the Typhoon sim under the...

  
• 08.03.2021

  FULL FLAPS Flt Lt Nick Callinswood and the Typhoon at RAF Coningsby

  Welcome to our FULL FLAPS Eurofighter Typhoon episode. During our trip to RAF Coningsby the TLG team was given unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to the Typhoon operation. Coningsby is one of two RAF stations in the UK which operates the Typhoon in...

  
• 07.27.2021

  The Eurofighter Typhoon - The world's most advanced fighter jet.

  We’re continuing with our trip to Lincolnshire, Bomber County, where we’ve been focussing on the Avro Lancaster. But in this episode we move right up to date with our visit to RAF Coningsby, one of the RAF’s Typhoon bases where...

  
• 07.13.2021

  RAF Scampton Heritage Centre Tour with Colin Clitheroe FULL FLAPS

  On our recent visit to Bomber County, Lincolnshire, the TLG team visited RAF Scampton, home to 617 Squadron and from where, in May 1943, 19 specially converted Lancasters set out on that historic raid.  This is our FULL FLAPS tour around...

  
• 07.05.2021

  The Dam Busters Raid and RAF Scampton

  After Roy and James tried to go it alone in the previous pod, Top Landing Gear is back at full strength for this one. Throughout this series we’ve been focussing on the Avro Lancaster which this year celebrates its 80th...

  
• 06.21.2021

  Supermarine Spitfire prototype K5054 and Spitfire Pilot 'Jim Schofield'

  With the Curling Brothers unavailable, Roy And James got together to mark the 85th anniversary of the first public display of the Supermarine Spitfire prototype K5054. We catch up on the latest aviation news, answer a superb 'Ask James' question and...

  
• 06.15.2021

  The Petwood Hotel - Home of the Dambusters (617 Squadron) - Full Flaps

  Welcome to our full length interview with Emma Brealey, director of the magnificent Petwood Hotel in Lincolnshire. During the Second World War it served as the officers' mess for a number of RAF squadrons including 617 Squadron - The Dambusters. Petwood's...