The UK Airshow Review Podcast

Sam, Ian, and Tom talk about the latest airshow news, and discuss RIAT updates and the RAF Cosford Airshow, as well as rumours of the Swedish historic jets. To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to https://www.airshows.co.uk If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at https://forums.airshows.co.uk

Sam, Tom and Ian get to grips with the highs and lows of the 2022 airshow season build up - RIAT announcements off to a strong start, Legends getting cancelled, and another, very opinionated, quick-fire quiz! To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to https://www.airshows.co.uk If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at https://forums.airshows.co.u...

A truncated team (Sam) is joined by Nigel Watson of 2020 podcast fame to chat about our favourite memories of airshows, beyond just the displays themselves. We also have quick chat about how excited we are for our first RIAT announcement in two years. To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to https://www.airshows.co.uk If you want to join the discussion, you can head to...

On this week's episode we're joined by highly accomplished pilot Eskil Amdal. Currently one of the Flying Bulls' warbird pilots, Eskil was formerly the Royal Norwegian Air Force's F-16 display pilot and F-35 test pilot, as well as Airbus test pilot, among many other roles and achievements. We discussed his career and the nature of test and warbird flying as well as discuss his 2020 crash in Sea Fu...

In this week's episode we chat about some actual airshow news for once, discuss accommodation and music, wander back down memory lane and hold another patented UKAR Podcast Pop Quiz. You can check out the Mustard Youtube channel mentioned in the episode here: https://www.youtube.com/c/MustardChannel To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to https://www.airshows.co.uk If...

Our first episode of 2022 looks back at a year of difficulty, stress, uncertainty and confusion - but enough about the podcast intro, we're talking about 2021. Looking back, our thoughts on how the year went and even what we got for Christmas, we're rounding up the last 12 months of our aviation lives. To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to https://www.airshows.co.uk...

We're back! After a little break we have another small catch-up with eachother, discussing recent trips and heading out to catch the B-1B bomber deployment to Fairford. Tom hits us with a quick-fire quiz! To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to https://www.airshows.co.uk If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at https://forums.airshows.co.uk

Paul Wright, the Chairman and Technical Director of the British Phantom Aviation Group joins Ian and Dom on the podcast to talk about everyone's favourite Cold War legend. BPAG preserve and promote the legacy of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II in British service and work to restore Phantom airframes to high condition, including the iconic 'Black Mike'. Visit the British Phantom Aviation Museu...

The pod crew have a little catch up as we come up to what would've been the RIAT weekend. Dan tells us about his first jaunt to Lossiemouth, Sam chats about the Yorkshire and Newark Air Museums which he visited recently and Tom talks to us about the Old Warden Military Pageant. To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to http://www.airshows.co.uk If you want to join the d...

On this episode we're joined by ex-RAF Tornado pilot and author of "Spitfire" and "Lancaster", John Nichol, to discuss Tornado: In the Eye of the Storm. It tells the human story of the crews that flew the venerable Panavia machine in Operation Granby/Desert Storm, in the 1991 Gulf War. To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk If you want to join the...

On this episode we're joined by BBC television and radio producer Alasdair Cross to discuss his new book The Spitfire Kids. It tells the story of the young people, some still in their teens, whose lives were affected by the the Spitfire in almost every guise - those who flew it, those who designed it and who built it and many whose lives were simply changed by the presence of the plane in the sky....

Say Cheese! Compared with 30 years ago the prevalence of photography as part of the hobby now is enormous. Go to any airshow and you'll see a field of lenses of all shapes and sizes following the aircraft around the sky. In this episode we chat about the equipment we use, what works for the hobby and what kind of kit we add on. To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to...

This latest edition of the podcast gets us chatting about what it's like taking people to airshows and aviation stuff with people who aren't quite as absolutely interested in the subject as we are. Tiraspol Monument to the Aviators: https://flic.kr/p/2aYt8Bj To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk If you want to join the discussion, you can head to...

Only a few hours after our last episode was released, Douglas Bader House announced the unsurprising but still disappointing cancellation of RIAT 2021. We put our thoughts together for a short podcast episode. To read our reports, features and interviews from years past, head to www.airshows.co.uk If you want to join the discussion, you can head to our forums at forums.airshows.co.uk

Everyone's favourite Mackem Nigel Watson joins us again to talk about one of the most common parallel hobbies to the airshow world, model aeroplanes. Many av enthusiasts have set glue to plastic at one point or another, more so than ever over the last year of lockdown, and veteran modeller Nige shared his thoughts with us on the matter. An alternative title for this episode was "You Can't Handle t...

In this episode we've got together after a hectic (boring) and festive (quiet) Christmas and New Year to look to the bright and wonderful future 2021 will surely bring us all. We lay out our predictions, chat about Christmas presents and aviation books and delve a little into our lockdown minds. Looking Down the Corridors: https://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/looking-down-the-corridors/97...

A little end-of-2020 gift for you! When we started out doing to the podcast we soon came to realise that even just chatting and recording our thoughts was harder than it seemed. On brand for this year Ian picked up all the bloopers and mistakes off the cutting room floor and compiled them into a short little reel for us.

We're down to just two for this week's episode, but we're covering one of our favourite topics - aviation museums. We gush over sites at home and abroad, discuss what separates a good museum from a great one and pay tribute to one of the best websites around: http://aviationmuseum.eu/. Sam also talks about his brief time volunteering at the De Havilland Museum. The Narushevich Ring Wing: https://f...

What's interesting? Why do we find particular planes interesting over others? Why do we like aviation full stop? We make an absolute hash of answering these questions and more in episode 24 where we try and work out exactly what creates interest for us in the hobby. We also chat about the new "Russian Spitfire" out of Hangar 11 and discuss our lockdown quizzes. The Republic of Artsakh's Zenith STO...

At exactly the time when people are really feeling the lack of going on holiday we thought it'd be a good idea to bring it all up again. We're chatting about the hobby overseas this week, especially the foreign airshows which have become increasingly common on a British enthusiast's calendar as the domestic market has shrunk. Sam also tells us about some hairy encounters in Russia. To read our rep...

The role of Flying Display Director is one that is absolutely essential to the airshow world, one that most enthusiasts are aware of but that most people probably don't really know what it actually involves. We spoke with Dave Walton, director of TSA Consulting Ltd, who has been a Flying Display Director (FDD) for many years and has been involved in the global airshow industry for even longer, for...

This week we break out the bagpipes and get a haggis on the stove as we're talking about Scottish airshows with UKAR's own Gordon Duncan. He takes us dirty southerners through the legacy of the famous Leuchars airshow, what made that show so special and so world-renowned, as well as the other display venues found north of the border. We also have a little chat about photography preferences and the...

UKAR's very own Andy Evans (boff180) joins us this week! Andy has volunteered at Scampton Airshow and RIAT the last few years and we picked his brains about what that involves. We also take the opportunity, as if we needed it, to reminisce in RIAT memories! To read our reports, features and interviews now that airshows are a thing again, head to https://www.airshows.co.uk If you want to join the d...

Sanicole Airshow is one of Europe's foremost air events, regularly attracting some of the most sought-after acts from around the world while located on a small grass airfield in Belgium. Though it was cancelled this year due to the Coronavirus, we spoke to airshow director Geoffrey Buekenberghs, son of the show's original founder, about Sanicole, its history, its place and the upcoming Digital San...

People have been playing flight sims for decades. For those without the means to fly the real deal flight simulators are the best way to get that feeling of taking to the air and cover all sorts of aviation from the smallest Cessnas, the fastest fighters to the biggest Antonovs. It's long been a very niche genre of video gaming and at the most-in-depth end an expensive hobby as well, but the new M...