Airplane Geeks Podcast

Airplane Geeks Podcast


AirplaneGeeks 294 - A Huge Hole in the Airport Fence

April 09, 2014


Guest Robin Petgrave has over 10,000 hours of flight experience, and is Chief Pilot and President of Celebrity Helicopters, providing helicopter tours, charters, flight training, helicopter ferrying, and entertainment industry production work.


Robin is also the Founder of Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum, which mentors young, economically deprived future aviators. T.A.M. offers hands-on involvement with static displays, aircraft simulators, and youth programs that use aviation and Robin’s success to show kids that they have unlimited potential to do whatever they love to do.


Through an after-school outreach program, students earn credit for real flight lessons by performing community service.


The week’s aviation news:





  • MH370 Update

David Vanderhoof’s Aircraft of the Week:  From Failure to Success, Part 2, The P-3s the Americans.


In this week’s Australia Desk:


Grant’s back on deck (mostly) after an intense couple of weeks dealing with health issues and a CASA audit. He joins Steve to review the following news items:


787s in Melbourne




  • Royal Brunei have started flying their 787s from London to Melbourne.




  • Air NZ’s new 787-9 looks fantastic!




  • United converting the LAX to Melbourne route from 747s to 777s but their 787-9s will be here by the end of October.




How about some UAVs in the news?




Find more from Grant and Steve at the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast, and follow the show on Twitter at @pcdu. Steve’s at @stevevisscher and Grant at @falcon124.


Ron Smith flying his rebuilt Tipsy Trainer ©RonSmith


In this week’s Across the Pond segment:


This week Pieter goes back to visit Ron Smith, co author of ‘Two Up‘ to look at Ron’s amazing flying history and his extremely comprehensive aviation collection of photo’s and books. With over 760 hours flying time in 36 different aircraft type (650 hours are in tail wheel aircraft), we hear about his flying experiences, owning aircraft and re building his beloved Tipsy Trainer.


Find Pieter on Twitter as @Nascothornet, on Facebook at XTPMedia, and at the Aviation Xtended podcast.


Ontario F22 by Ian Kershaw


Mentioned:








By Errol Cavit


Listen to the NBAA Flight Plan podcast from the National Business Aviation Association.


Opening and closing music courtesy Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. You can find his great music at www.brotherloverocks.com.


John Arvin at Luke Airforce Base Airshow