People from around the world travel to the islands of Fiji to holiday in a tropical paradise. A number of companies operate resort transfers by helicopter and someone has to fly those helicopters. - Jane Ament is one of those pilots.

Helicopters are uniquely suited to the demands of the US Forest Service. John Harris is one of the Service's inspector pilots and in this episode talks about his career and his current role. - Based in Missoula, Montana,

Dr Warren De Haan has been an Aviation vision specialist for 48 years and is considered the world’s leading expert in the field. - In this episode we will be talking about vision science, tips on looking after your eyesight,

Today's episode is about a single seat helicopter design being developed in Australia that makes use of a coaxial rotor system. - And who better to talk us through the design than Airbus A380 captain Richard Woodward. That's right,

To take us through everything you ever wanted to know about helicopter aircrew helmets we are joined today by Mark Jones of Gentex Aircrew Systems. The modern helmet does much more than just provide head protection as you are about to find out. Should y

Blackdeath 23 was Robert Mill's callsign in an Air Cavalry Unit operating the Kiowa Warrior in Iraq. Robert has published his journal as a book of the same name covering his two tours in Iraq and the daily challenges of operating a scout helicopter in tha

  A battle truck that cruises at 240kts and can land in your supermarket car park - the V-22 Osprey is one of the more unique aircraft kicking around. Ok, technically its a tiltrotor design but we'll adopt it as more rotary wing than fixed wing. The

  A great example of the utility of helicopters is their use in firefighting support. There is more to it than meets the eye though. [Warning: This is a longer episode, approx 85mins, so you might want to download the file and play locally] Us...

Whether you walk away from a landing after an helicopter engine failure or not depends on many things but one good predictor is the Height Velocity(H/V) diagram. The H/V diagram (also known as H/V curve and dead man's curve) represents combinations of ai

A box full of maps, a sat phone, a support crew of 1 in a British hangar, full tanks and off you hop for an around the world record flight in an MD500 helicopter - that's what Simon Oliphant-Hope did. Podcast: Subscribe in iTunes | Play in new window |