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Imagine you booked a flight on an airline for a two-week vacation to an exotic location. In fact, a location so exotic, it’s out of this world. Once you got there, the airline called and said they have cancelled your flight and the next flight on the only other airline doesn’t have any open seats until next year. No, it’s not the twilight zone….you are Marooned and Lost In Space courtesy of the Boeing Starliner!  This, other news, movie, book, comedy, interviews and more in this episode.  Plus, listen all the way to the end for a very special announcement!

Movie/TV Series:  Fly Away Home

Book: Famous First Flights by Lowell Thomas, Owen Garriot,

Interview:  Captain Joe-How Pilot Checklists increase your productivity

Website: Airport Courtesy Cars

Song: John Hartford/Steam-Powered Aeroplane

Destination/Places to Fly To: Museum of Flying, Santa Monica, CA

Comedy/Sound: Tony Hancock-Test Pilot

The multi-national team at Hangar 49 is ready, at a moment’s notice, to respond to any kind of emergency, including an “international incident.”  We even brought in an expert to discuss very this important issue.  That, and more, on this episode of Hangar 49!

Movie/TV Series:  The Blue Angels (2024)

Book: Ghosts of Honolulu by Mark Harmon & Leon Carroll

Interview:  Why your daughter should learn to fly/Leah Ochs

Website:  Airport Camping Guide

Song: Silver Wings/Merle Haggard

Destination/Places to Fly To:  Titan Missile Museum/Tucson AZ

Comedy/Sound:  Preventing an International Incident/Jose Sarduy

We were originally going to release this show in July, but we got caught in a time warp.  So, here we are on July 41st.  Hey, it could have been a star date, but we are still stuck in the dimension….maybe.  Tune in for the usual aviation news, aviation movie, aviation song, and aviation comedy.

Movie:  A Yank in the RAF (1941)

Book: Truckin’ the Skies-Alaska Aviation Stories by Gary Tupper

Interview:  How Do Airplanes Actually Fly-Raymond Atkins

Website: Aviation Museums List

Song:  Queensryche/Jet City Woman

Destination/Places to Fly To: Black Rock City Airport / Burning Man

Comedy/Sound:  James Gregory—You Don’t Realize How dangerous flying Can Be

We understand the high cost of everything nowadays, that’s why we have cut our cost and service down to the bare minimum allowed by law.  For example, in this show, we only have two hosts instead of our usual three. (OK, Tony just got back from across the pond and still has jet-lag.) But please, listen anyway. We’ll get you there….probably.

We understand the high cost of everything nowadays, that’s why we have cut our cost and service down to the bare minimum allowed by law.  For example, in this show, we only have two hosts instead of our usual three. (OK, Tony just got back from across the pond and still has jet-lag.) But please, listen anyway. We’ll get you there….probably.

We understand the high cost of everything nowadays, that’s why we have cut our cost and service down to the bare minimum allowed by law.  For example, in this show, we only have two hosts instead of our usual three. (OK, Tony just got back from across the pond and still has jet-lag.) But please, listen anyway. We’ll get you there….probably.

Movie:  Flight to Mars (1951)

Book: Upside Down Dreams by Michele “MACE” Curran

Interview: James Green-Advancing Airline Single-Pilot Concept 

Website: The Aviation History Online Museum

Song:  Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers/Learning to Fly

Destination/Places to Fly To:  Castle Air Museum-Atwater CA (Near Merced)

Comedy/Sound:  No Frills Airlines-Nikki Howard

May the fourth be with you! Yep, this month’s show was produced on Star Wars Day! We couldn’t believe that, in 158 shows, we never reviewed this classic film.  So, here we are.

Movie:  Star Wars (1977)

Book:  Unlocking the Sky by Seth Shulman

Interview:  Jack Hohner/FeelFlight Grip

Website:  Rod Machado’s Aviation Learning Center-YouTube Channel

Song: Theme From Star Wars/London Symphony Orchestra-John Williams

Destination/Places to Fly To: USS Midway Museum-San Diego, CA

Comedy/Sound:  Nate Bargatze

The world of aviation has great people, and when they get together it creates great vibes.  When the Hangar 49 team gets together, our mission is to create more of those vibes.  In this show, we create some great vibes…and we get to listen to some great music created with vibes.  You gotta to listen to find out….and that’s a fact!  Oh, we also do a lot of fact-checking in the show, including checking our own facts.

Movie:  Airport 1975

Book:  Airport by Arthur Hailey

Interview:  Ravn Air-Diana Miller

Website: Seat Guru

Song:  Flying Home/Lionel Hampton Quintet
and a vocal version by Ella Fitzgerald and the:

Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival/University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho 

Destination/Places to Fly To: Historic Aircraft Resoration Museum-Maryland Height Missouri

Comedy/Sound:  Bob Newhart-Air Traffic Controller (from the Smothers Brothers Show)

So, it’s time for our March show…and just in time…since March is almost over.  Yes, we’re running late-just like most airlines.  In this show, Tony referees while Jim and Al argue about Elvis.  To find out who wins, just listen.

Movie: Con Air

Book:   Hornet Flight by Ken Follett

Interview: Trent Moyers from Pangborn/Wenatchee Airport (KEAT) 

Website: History of Spy Balloons

Song: Higher and Higher/Moody Blues

Destination/Places to Fly To: Pacific Coast Dream Machines

Comedy/Sound:  SNL-Southwest Airlines

Sometimes it’s hard to understand what people are saying.  Sometimes it’s a foreign accent, sometimes it’s a fast-talking approach controller in busy Bravo airspace, possibly a mega rock and roll star, or maybe babbling podcast hosts.  Listen to this show and you decide.

Movie:  Dawn Patrol (1938)

Book: Into The Silk by Ian MacKersey

Interview: TED Talk-Ryah Whalen: Three ways to make flying more climate friendly

Website:  Project Blue Book

Song: Flight 505/The Rolling Stones

Destination/Places to Fly To: National Naval Aviation Museum-Pensacola, Florida

Comedy/Sound:  Ismo/Flying Through Time

All pilots know what keeps an airplane in the air: Magic! OK...money is an important component.  In this show, we take a desperate journey, help you build an airplane for very little money, introduce you to some sorcery, invite you to a museum that you can't visit, see some great aviation photography, and learn what bored pilots do behind that closed cockpit door.

Movie: Desperate Journey (1942)

Book: Advanced paper Airplanes for Kids and Adults by Andrew Thorne

Interview:  Derek Schmidt-Lightspeed Aviation Headsets

Website: International Society of Aviation Photography

Song:  Flying Sorcery/Al Stewart (Suggested by Tony Simpson in Ireland)

Destination/Places to Fly To:  US Air Force Flight Test Museum
Edwards Air Force Base, CA

Comedy/Sound:  Monty Python-Bored Pilots

It’s our annual holiday episode, so gather ‘round the tree and take a listen.  Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or whatever you celebrate.

Movie:  Devotion (2022)

Book: Wing Leader by Johnnie Johnson

Interview:  Marci Veronie/Avemco

Website: The Last Boeing 747-News Story and Boeing’s 747 Stats

Song:  The Kinks/Supersonic Rocket Ship

Destination/Places to Fly To:  Bradbury Science Museum-Los Alamos, New Mexico

Comedy/Sound:  Benny Hill/Scuttle Airlines

Special Holiday Bonus Song: Royal Guardsmen/Snoopy's Christmas