Calling all AvGeeks! Join Gini and Jamie as they get completely obsessed with military aircraft. They talk to the pilots, air crew and ground crew who flew them, fixed them, loved them and sometimes even hated them.
Episodes
Is it Rude to Stare? RIAT 25: Eyes in the Skies Pt 2
26 Dec 2025 · 36 min
We all know what it’s like. You’re waiting for an episode of your favourite military aviation podcast to drop and then two come along at once! Join Gini and Jamie for more of RIAT 2025. The journey continues with a French E3 Sentry (ooh la la!) and the beautiful RC135 Rivet Joint. They also share…
Is it Rude to Stare? RIAT 25: Eyes in the Skies Pt 1
26 Dec 2025 · 33 min
Like Nicholas Cage landing the Fairchild C-123 Provider in Con Air, Gini and Jamie have wrestled back the controls of Mavgeeks: A Military Aircraft Obsession to bring you a double helping of some military aviation magic. They look back on RIAT 2025 with a journey of U2s, Reconaissance Spitfires,…
Christmas Craftsmanship: Airfix's Creativity Unwrapped
10 Dec 2024 · 27 min
Ho ho holy ****, Christmas snuck up quicker than a Sopwith on skis! With gift-giving on the MavMind, the final episode of series five sees Gini Carlin and Jamie Gordon meet Dale Luckhurst, Head of Brand at Airfix. Gini and Jamie got the full geek's guide to the legendary brand, the forensic…
Height Cuisine: Al Bridger's Flavours of Flight
3 Dec 2024 · 25 min
Airline food gets a bad rap. For some of us, no other words paint so vivid a picture of bullet-hard potatoes and custard lumpier than a regional runway. However, one man has mad it his mission to upend these assumptions. Luckily for our Gini Carlin and Jamie Gordon, that man is none other than…
Above the Battlefield: The Life of a Helicopter Door Gunner
26 Nov 2024 · 38 min
Helicopters are sadly, sorely neglected by us here at MavGeeks towers, but no longer! The mononymous Russ is a former door gunner on the Westland Lynx Mk7 and Mk9, amongst other rotary aircraft, with several tours of Aghanistan and Iraq under his belt. He was instrumental in keeping his crew and…
Heroics on the Hercules: Scott Bateman MBE’s Flights of Fancy
19 Nov 2024 · 31 min
Earlier this year, Gini Carlin and Jamie Gordon caught up with none other than Scott Bateman MBE. An RAF veteran with a storied career as Hercules Captain, Scott was perfectly poised to introduce us to what’s formally the Lockheed C-130, but will forever be the Hercules of our hearts. In May of…
Royal Canadian Air Force Turns 100: Time Flies When You're Having Fun!
12 Nov 2024 · 42 min
The Royal Canadian Air Force turns 100 this year! In that spirit, Canada resident Gini Carlin takes the lead for a guided tour of the fabulous Force's history. At this year's Royal International Air Tattoo, she caught up with several RCAF pilots and engineers, as well as the masterminds behind its…
Remembering the Real Masters of the Air
5 Nov 2024 · 36 min
This week, our Gini Carlin enjoyed a blast from the past in several senses. She paid a visit to the delightfully well-preserved 100th Bomb Group Memorial Museum at RAF Thorpe Abbotts, where she volunteered as a young lass potty about planes. Reg Wilson, the museum's Chair of Trustees and Deputy…
MavShrieks with Danny Robins and Denver International Airport
29 Oct 2024 · 46 min
Hilariously, bizarrely, Denver International Airport is something of a lightning rod for conspiracy theories: in the mind of the open-eyed, the Illuminati’s clubhouse shares a wall with an alien-infested catacomb. While it’s true that unofficial mascot Mustang killed his creator, Senior Vice…
Eject! Eject!
21 Oct 2024 · 26 min
Something a bit different this week, dearest MavMates! Gini and Jamie enjoyed a natter with Tony Gaunt, Business Development Executive at Martin-Baker. Informally, they're THE ejector seat people, though Tony corrects our podcast co-pilots' terminology, offers an idiot's guide to testing an escape…
The One With All the Planespotters
14 Oct 2024 · 30 min
In this week's episode, Canada-based Gini pays our Jamie a little visit, which can only mean one thing... ROADTRIP! (Gini's driving permitting, of course). Reunited at last at RAF Coningsby, they catch up with a selection of its regular visitors: the enthusiastic amateurs and quintessential…
Four Reds Make a Right
7 Oct 2024 · 33 min
It’s the 60th anniversary year of the RAF's Red Arrows aerobatics team, and with the commemorations taking in our Gini’s far-flung Canada, it felt only right that we celebrate them in style. Gini and Jamie were lucky enough to catch up with current Red 6 Flight Lieutenant Stuart Roberts and Red 9…
Never Bring an Aardvark to a Dogfight
30 Sept 2024 · 29 min
Known affectionately as the Aardvark for its reputation as a terrain-hugger with a big nose, the General Dynamics F-111 was one of the United States Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force’s go-to combat aircraft. Mike Crain spent years in its cockpit for the latter, starting at the hilariously…
The RIAT Round-Up 2024!
23 Sept 2024 · 42 min
We’re back, baby! To all MavGeeks old and new: welcome! Man, it feels good to be home. Gini Carlin and Jamie Gordon are absolutely buzzing to begin a bumper new sequence of excuses to natter about their military aircraft obsession and bring you along for the ride. To kick things off, Gini shares…
MavGeeks Returns for Series 5!
16 Sept 2024 · 2 min
Got an obsession with aircraft that’s impossible to contain? Worried you might be as maniacal about big metal birds as that bloke that sat on a car park by Heathrow Airport filming everything during that storm? Power down your radar, you’ve arrived! MavGeeks: A Military Aircraft Obsession is back…
International Women's Day With Colonel Kim Campbell
8 Mar 2024 · 30 min
This International Women's Day, our Gini takes to the skies with none other than the decorated Colonel Kim Campbell. The pair trace Kim's extensive career, from a storied 24-year stint in the American Air Force flying the A-10 Thunderbolt (AKA the Warthog) to her success as a keynote speaker and…
Saving Lives With Llewis Ingamells of Lincs & Notts Air Ambulance
28 Nov 2023 · 32 min
To tie a knot on this fourth series of MavGeeks, Gini and Jamie come good on a promise they made way back in one of its earliest episodes. That's right, they've tracked down Llewis Ingamells, Chief Pilot of the Lincs and Notts Air Ambulance! Llewis was incredibly generous with his time and wisdom,…
More Takeoffs Than Landings With Chris Burwell
21 Nov 2023 · 34 min
This week, Gini joins Jamie from her new Canadian digs for an otherwise classic slice of MavGeeks. Earlier this year, the pair managed to pin down ex-Harrier pilot turned author Chris Burwell for a three-person natter about fast jet flight, Chris' excellent book "Nine Lives: The Compelling Memoir…
Long Road to RIAT
14 Nov 2023 · 33 min
As winter hits hard and we weather enough storms with names to crew an Avro Lancaster, Gini and Jamie take a look back on (marginally) sunnier times and climes in this RIAT retrospective. Gini was at the Royal International Air Tattoo in July with a microphone and a mission: chat to as many pilots…
Mandy Hickson: Queen of the Skies
7 Nov 2023 · 34 min
Jamie’s in the cockpit today for a long-overdue natter with Mandy Hickson. Rightly described by Gini as a “Queen of the skies”, Mandy’s a decorated Tornado GR-4 pilot with over 30 years of aviation experience, three tours of duty and 45 missions over Iraq to her name. After leaving the RAF, she…