All Episodes

51: Look Ahead at 2025's Aerospace Books

50: 50th Episode Celebration

49: "A Dizzy Idea" - The Airplanes that Didn't Make It with Kenneth P. Werrell

48: "Keep 'Em Flying!" Stan Fisher on Keeping WW2 Carriers Running

47: "There is a Holy Trinity of US Air Force History": Brian Laslie on the history of USAF

46: "I want to serve in the same way they did" - the WW2 WASP with Dr. Sarah Myers

45: "A Bridge to 21st Century Spaceships" - Astronaut Tom Jones on the Space Shuttle

44: "The Americans were clearly defeated in 1943..." Luke Truxal on Commanding Air Power in WW2

43: "Women aren't in combat but they're being killed": Women in Military Aviation - Eileen Bjorkman

42: "They weren't told they were being recruited for space," Cathy Lewis on Soviet Cosmonauts

41: "The airplane just blew up into several pieces!" - Lee Ellis on the Romance Stories of POWs

40: "Check Six": Historian Questions and Answers

39: "My Airplane is Plunging to the Ground!" - Colonel Kim Campbell

38: "This Cannot Go On": The "Race Riot" on the USS Kitty Hawk - Marv Truhe

37: "Your grandfather was a spy!" - The USAF Security Service - Philip Shackelford

36: Tal Tovy: Origins of the F-14 Tomcat and F-15 Eagle

35: The Vietnam War 50 Years Later - Michael E. Weaver

34: Best Aviation and Air Power Books of the Year - Dr Ross Mahoney

33: Origins of Air Power - Larry Burke

32: What Nuclear War Looks Like - Sean Maloney

31: The Unconventional Journey of Gen. Larry Spencer

30: John Curatola: The True Origins of the Cold War

29: Rick Tollini - Air Combat in the Gulf War

28: Beverly Weintraub - Women Naval Aviators

27: Fred Haise - Never Panic Early

26: Teasel Muir-Harmony - The Apollo Program in Global Politics

25: Colonel Merryl Tengesdal - Through the Stratosphere in the U-2 and in Life

24: Kevin Hall - The Lynching of American Airmen in Nazi Germany

23: Michael Hankins - The F-15 and F-16: Fighter Pilot Culture and Technology

22: Alex Spencer - Interwar Airpower in Australia and New Zealand

21: Michael Boyle - The Drone Age

20: Aaron Stein - Air Power Against ISIS in Syria

19: Frank Blazich - Civil Air Patrol vs. the U-Boats

18: Brian Laslie - The Air Wars in Vietnam

17: Daniel Jackson - Rescuing the Flying Tigers

16: Jeff Shesol - John Glenn, Pilot and Astronaut

15: The Bomber Mafia

14: Greg Daddis - The Vietnam War and Men's Adventure Magazines

13: Lieutenant General David Deptula, USAF (Ret.) - The First Gulf War

12: Rebecca Siegel - The Women Astronaut Training Program

11: Robert Farley - Air Power Patent Wars

10: Eileen Bjorkman - Search and Rescue in Vietnam

09: Sterling Michael Pavelec - Gallipoli's Air War

08: Katherine Sharp Landdeck - Women Pilots in WW2

07: Peter Westwick - Designing Stealth Aircraft in California

06: Tyler Morton - The Evolution of Manned Airborne Reconnaissance

05: Stephen Bourque - World War II and the Bombing of French Civilians

04: Roger Launius - The Legacy of Apollo

03: Valerie Insinna - Air Power Journalism

02: Dr Mel Deaile - Strategic Air Command and Gen LeMay: Culture and Legacy

01: Dr Timothy Schultz - The Problem with Pilots