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Top Landing Gear
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A fun and entertaining new podcast aimed at anyone with an interest in flying and aviation.
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Aboard Aviation Filming's Fleet of Boeing 747s
25 mars 2024 · 32 min
Welcome to Top Landing Gear and our bonus edition of Full Flaps from Dunsfold Aerodrome. In our previous episode we spoke with Aviation Filming's owner Mike Woodley. In this episode we make our way out onto the apron and get guided tour around the three BA Boeing 747s with Aviation Filming Aerial…
Mike Woodley - Aviation Filming
18 mars 2024 · 1 h 03
Welcome to Top Landing Gear Full Flaps and our full length interview with Mike Woodley, owner of Aviation Filming Ltd based at Dunsfold Aerodrome in Surrey. The company specialises in aviation content for film and TV, including a huge number of the Bond films. Among Aviation Filming's fleet are…
Dunsfold Aerodrome: Home of the Hunter and the Harrier
12 mars 2024 · 1 h 40
Welcome to Top Landing Gear as we turn our attention to an airfield that is close to all of us, both emotionally and geographically: Dunsfold Aerodrome, home of the Hunter and the Harrier. It was also used as the studio and test track for BBC Top Gear (a poor man's version of Top Landing Gear -…
A Tour of Croydon Airport with A380 Captain Ian Walker
13 févr. 2024 · 1 h 35
Join the Top Landing Gear team as they are given a tour of Croydon Airport by A380 Captain Ian Walker, former chairman of the Croydon Airport Trust. Opening in the 1920s, Croydon was London's, indeed the UK's main international airport. Arguably the birthplace of commercial air travel, it was also…
Croydon Airport
5 févr. 2024 · 44 min
Top Landing Gear returns as we continue series 5 by going further back in aviation history than we've ever gone before, to the earliest days of commercial air travel with our visit to the historic Croydon Aerodrome. Opening in the 1920s, Croydon was London's, indeed the UK's main international…
THE YEAR: 2024 - AND TOP LANDING GEAR IS BACK!
31 janv. 2024 · 33 min
We delivered our last podcast - as in most recent -back in May 2023 - when we were in the middle of series 5. We were literally on our way to Roy's studio to record our next editions when he told us not to bother - because his house was being razed to the ground after a tumble direr caught fire.…
Top Landing Gear is coming back...
30 janv. 2024 · 1 min
We are coming back! A short trailer to get you in the mood for the rest of Series Five (Part Deux)
Bizjet Falcon 7X Captain, Mark Blois-Brooke
9 mai 2023 · 1 h 01
Welcome to Top Landing Gear Full Flaps, where we bring you the most thrilling stories and captivating interviews from the world of aviation. Today, we are thrilled to present our full-length interview with none other than Bizjet pilot extraordinaire, Mark Blois-Brooke. Our hosts, Rob and Roy, had…
Private Jets
26 avr. 2023 · 1 h 12
Hello and welcome to Top Landing Gear, the aviation podcast for everyone. Join Rob, Jez, James and Roy as we learn about the glamorous world of business jets and hear a snippet of next weeks interview with Falcon 7X Captain and Chief Pilot for TAG Aviation, Mark Bois-Brooke.
The Spitfire Factory - Tony Hoskins takes us around the Airframe Assemblies workshop
18 avr. 2023 · 1 h 29
Welcome to Top Landing Gear Full Flaps and the second part of our interview with Tony Hoskins who is restoring a rare photo reconnaissance Spitfire PR4 to full flight. Back in 2018 Tony and his team recovered the wreckage of Spitfire AA810 from a mountainside in Norway where it had laid…
Tony Hoskins - Restoring Sandy’s Spitfire
11 avr. 2023 · 47 min
Welcome to Top Landing Gear Full Flaps and the first part of our interview with Tony Hoskins who is restoring a rare photo reconnaissance Spitfire PR4 to full flight. Back in 2018 Tony and his team recovered the wreckage of Spitfire AA810 from a mountainside in Norway where it had laid undisturbed…
Aerial reconnaissance and Restoring Sandy’s Spitfire AA810
4 avr. 2023 · 52 min
Welcome to Top Landing Gear and the first episode proper of Series Five. Along with our usual catch up and 'Ask James' feature we talk aerial reconnaissance and hear the remarkable story of a very special Spitfire. We speak to engineer and aerial restoration specialist Tony Hoskins who shares the…
Audacious Aviation - Alan Pollock and the Hawker Hunter that flew through Tower Bridge.
30 mars 2023 · 2 h 01
A massive thank you to all our listeners. So many wonderful words across social media about the return of Top Landing Gear this week. After we mentioned it in last weeks episode we thought it only right to repeat our Audacious Aviation Podcast and 2020 interview with Hawker Hunter pilot Alan…
The last 747 and airport near misses - Catching up on the latest aviation news and looking ahead to Series Five
27 mars 2023 · 52 min
Hello and welcome back to Top Landing Gear. The aviation podcast for everyone. After several months in the wilderness we’re back with a brand new series. Today we catch up on the latest aviation news and look forward to what’s coming up in Season Five of www.toplandinggear.com If you have a topic…
Series Five Starts Tomorrow
26 mars 2023 · 2 min
Top Landing Gear is back... (Well it will be tomorrow on TLG Tuesday!) Here's a quick overview of what we've got coming up over the coming weeks. If you have a topic that you think we should cover this year or a question for our Ask James segment we would love to hear from you. Contact us via our…
TLG on Eggheads Special
13 oct. 2022 · 1 h 00
Hello and welcome back to Top Landing Gear after a bit of a hiatus during the summer. But we haven’t been totally idle in that time. Having said that we’re not launching the new series just yet. This episode, to be brutally honest is unashamedly about creating a bit of self-publicity. As you have…
Traveling by air this summer? Interview and travel advice with aviation expert Jeremy Spake
23 juil. 2022 · 1 h 24
Welcome to Top Landing Gear and our final episode of the series, one to put a spring in your step if you’re heading off on your summer holidays. As we are all too well aware, the aviation sector has struggled to bounce back from the pandemic, resulting in thousands of delays and cancellations.…
Full Flaps - the Jet Engine - Interview with Ian Whittle, Son of Frank Whittle
29 juin 2022 · 52 min
Hello and Welcome to TLG and to the second stage of our Full Flaps interview with Ian Whittle, son of Sir Frank, the man who invented the jet engine. Ian told us so much in part one, you’d hardly believe there’d be more – but there is – and we couldn’t let an opportunity like this pass us by. So…
Full Flaps - The Jet Engine - Interview with Ian Whittle, son of Sir Frank Whittle - Part One
23 juin 2022 · 1 h 09
Hello and welcome to Top Landing Gear Full Flaps, and to the full length interview with Ian Whittle, son of Sir Frank Whittle, the man credited with one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, something that changed the world forever – the jet engine. Ian is a pilot himself and flew the…
PLATINUM JUBILEE BONUS EPISODE - Typhoon Formation Pilot, SQN LDR Zane Sennett
23 juin 2022 · 34 min
The nation came together over 4 days in June to mark the extraordinary milestone of HM The Queen's 70 year reign. One of the highlights of the Platinum Jubilee celebrations was the flypast over London of 70 aircraft from the Royal Navy, the Army and of course the Royal Air Force who flew 15…