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Woman now combat pilot (1995)

Genre

News report; Interview; Music

Chief correspondent Paul Maurice talks to the first RAF combat ready female pilot, Jo Salter, and Julie Gibson, the first female pilot to enter the RAF. They made a unique rendezvous 8,000 feet over the...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Matthews Interview: Captain Tony Meadows, Concorde Pilot (1982)

Mike Matthews talks to Captain Tony Meadows, the pilot of Concorde Airplane. He talks about his life and his career. He says that he started as a mathematician, then went to the National Service, in the...

ILR South Radio Online Audio

Hooray for the last grand adventure (1988)

aka: Amelia Earhart

A documentary about the adventures of legendary pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared mysteriously in 1937.

ILR Sharing Radio Online Audio

Pilot remembers William Leefe Robinson (1988)

Genre

Interview

Interview with 93 year-old former pilot, Tim Hervey, talking about First World War pilot Lieutenant - later Captain - William Leefe Robinson, who was only twenty when he shot down a Zeppelin in the skies...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Falklands funeral of Argentine pilot (1986)

Genre

News report

Report on the funeral of a Argentine pilot downed during the Falklands War but only found four years after the end of the conflict; attendance by the pilot’s father (Signor Isaius(?) Lemin(?) Jimenez) and...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Shot down pilot rescued from Bosnia (1995)

Genre

Discussion

Chief correspondent Paul Maurice speaks to studio reporter (identified only as David) about the rescue operation for a US pilot, Captain Scott O’Grady, shot down in Serb-held territory in Bosnia. Assesses...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Pilot on Malta hijacking (1985)

Genre

Interview

Air pilot Captain Hani Galal on the hijacking of EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo (he was forced to land the plane in Malta). Interviewer not heard.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Pilot survives being sucked out of plane (1987)

Genre

Interview; News report

Pilot Henry Dempsey has survived being sucked out of his Beechcraft 99 by holding on until co-pilot Paul Boucher managed an emergency landing. Interview with Eastern Express spokesman, Steve Mason and rescue...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Kegworth air disaster - Pilot’s neighbours pay tribute (1989)

Genre

News report; Interview; Tribute

Kegworth air disaster. Stephanie Marshall reports from pilot Captain Kevin Hunt’s home village of Aston near East Midlands Airport. Next door neighbour, George Ryder on Hunt’s bravery. Vicar Basil Monroe...

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio

Pilot’s father on helicopter crash (1982)

Genre

Interview

The unidentified father of a helicopter pilot whose aircraft crashed in Chile during the Falklands conflict talks about his son (who was unharmed). Female interviewer not identified.

LBC IRN Radio Online Audio