Plane Crazy Down Under

Plane Crazy Down Under


Latest Episodes

PCDU Episode 128: Unprecedented
October 29, 2016

From Grant's collection of ballooning interviews to a chat with Owen Zupp about his latest book and our tribute to Hannes Arch, this episode is our biggest yet (yes, even bigger than Episode 51, our tribute to the RAAF's F-111s!). We've even captured Anth

PCDU Episode 127: From the Vault
July 16, 2016

We've gone back into our archives to pull out some great content that we never got around to releasing before. We have some more interviews from Avalon 2015 (yes, we recorded lots didn't we? :) ) and we also have WGCDR Tim Alsop (now a GPCAPT :) ) walking

PCDU Episode 126: Emirates Wants You!
March 10, 2016

They say patience is a virtue and hopefully our audience has plenty of it because it's been a while since our last episode was released. Fortunately we've been able to make some time available to record content, edit it and get this episode into the feed.

PCDU Episode 125: Avalon Charlie (The Avalon Airshow Goodness Continues)
August 02, 2015

Our third episode of Avalon 2015 coverage includes Gulfstream, The Australian Vintage Aviation Society & The Vintage Aviator Limited, the Australian Aviation Hall Of Fame, RMIT & Airbus' Fly Your Ideas competition, the A350XWB & Airbus Corporate Jets

PCDU Episode 124: Avalon15 Bravo (Yet more Avalon Airshow Goodness)
March 11, 2015

The second episode in our Avalon Airshow 2015 coverage includes drones, coaxial helicopters, female pilots, fire bombers and much much more

PCDU Episode 123: Avalon15 Alpha (It’s Avalon Airshow Time :) )
February 27, 2015

The Australian International Airshow (aka Avalon Airshow) is on once again & Team PCDU are there in force. Here's our first episode of content recorded on site.

PCDU Episode 122: Farewell 2014
December 31, 2014

We just sneak in our final episode for 2014 before the year ends! This one has content from the Avalon Airshow Media Launch, the Red Bull Air Race in Las Vegas and the Wings Over New Zealand Forum gathering at Ardmore

PCDU Episode 121: Exercise Pitch Black 2014
October 01, 2014

Grant's been to Exercise Pitch Black 2014 in Darwin with the RAAF (Australia's version of Red Flag) while Steve & ATC Ben chat to Ryan Campbell about his new book & future ideas

PCDU Episode 120: History & Records
July 31, 2014

This episode has content from the RAAF's Pt Cook airshow including Steve's chat with AIRMSHL Geoff Brown, Kingsley Just’s new world record, John Fisher talks L39s & USAF plus the B24 restoration project’s heritage recognition award ceremony

PCDU Episode 119: F-35 Joint Strike Fighter: The RAAF Approach
June 03, 2014

Steve & Grant discuss the RAAF's purchase of the F35 Joint Strike Fighter with Andrew McLaughlin and also feature interviews with Lockheed Martin staff and AVM Osley on the integration of the F35 with the RAAF