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Plane Talking UK's Podcast


Carlos, Nev, Armando and Matt bring you a weekly Podcast that will focus on the Commercial and Military Aviation news relating to us long suffering members of the general public.

Jun 20, 2021

Join Carlos, Matt and Armando for this week's programme. We were joined by special guest Rob from SkyDemon - Europe's favourite VFR flight planning software.

In this week's show Ryanair gets Maxed out, a Boeing 787 bows down before staff at London Heathrow, and one airline gives you the chance to fly on the Queen of the skies to sunny ole Mallorca .

In the military The USAF has a way to convert commercial grade Jet-A fuel to military grade JP-8, Numerous aircraft land in Morocco for an exercise, the US Marines explain that they "may have" shaken California awake, and we get a quick UK Warbird update.

In the last one of this series, Captain Al talks to Matt about Weather Avoidance in the latest Plane Truths.

If you want to see what we got up to last month check out these highlights:
https://youtu.be/KXASgGW2Wy8

George Lee Playlist: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4ZcH6hbU-FNNcOGErTMUFrYIQmX5NYI7

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Here are the links to the stories we featured this week :

QUEEN AWARDS INSPIRATIONAL PILOTS WITH MBE IN BIRTHDAY HONOURS
https://www.wscountytimes.co.uk/news/people/queen-honours-world-first-horsham-airline-captain-3270783
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-57445463
https://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/people/queens-birthday-honours-inspirational-northamptonshire-pilot-awarded-mbe-for-services-to-aviation-3270341
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/994908/Queen_s_Birthday_Honours_List_2021_-_Gov.uk_-_FINAL.docx.pdf
https://twitter.com/flyingdisabled/status/1403616643494916096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://www.flyingdisabled.org.uk/biography/

RYANAIR’S FIRST 737 MAX LANDS AT DUBLIN AIRPORT
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/transport-and-tourism/ryanair-s-first-737-max-due-at-dublin-airport-1.4595141
https://www.flightradar24.com/47.08,-123.22/7

BA 787 DAMAGED IN NOSE-GEAR INCIDENT WHILE PARKED AT HEATHROW
https://www.flightglobal.com/safety/ba-787-damaged-in-nose-gear-incident-while-parked-at-heathrow/144221.article
https://twitter.com/MZulqarnainBut1/status/1405804165067067394

PARTIALLY BLIND JAPANESE NATIVE SHINJI MAEDA CAME TO THE U.S. TO BECOME AN AVIATOR. THEN HE TOURED THE WORLD.
https://www.heraldnet.com/news/after-22000-miles-and-18-countries-he-landed-in-snohomish/?fbclid=IwAR2a0syz0lY4wbHi-VJHYNSv68ySz-f_j6HUshesDDuz8h14CgcVcDaDUgw

CATHAY WORKING WITH AIRBUS ON SINGLE-PILOT SYSTEM FOR LONG-HAUL
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/exclusive-cathay-working-with-airbus-single-pilot-system-long-haul-2021-06-16/

LUFTHANSA TO FLY TOURISTS TO MALLORCA THIS SUMMER IN JUMBO JETS AND AIRBUS A350S IN RESPONSE TO A SURGE IN BOOKINGS
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-9684019/Lufthansa-fly-tourists-Mallorca-JUMBO-JETS-Airbus-A350s-response-bookings-surge.html

AVGEEK ALERT! YOU CAN SOON SLEEP IN A BOEING 727 AT THIS AVIATION-THEMED HOTEL
https://thepointsguy.com/news/aerotel-hoedspruit-boeing-727-vip-suite/
http://aviationphotographs.net/FrontierAirlines/Aircraft-B727/N7273F.html
https://zephyrnet.com/boeing-727-set-to-be-turned-into-luxury-hotel-experience/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=boeing-727-set-to-be-turned-into-luxury-hotel-experience
https://www.thesouthafrican.com/news/aerotel-plane-hotel-boeing-727-hoedspruit-limpopo-12-june-2021/

MILITARY

UPDATE : CONTRACT AGGRESSOR AIRCRAFT CRASH AT NELLIS AFB
https://www.fox5vegas.com/news/ntsb-report-military-combat-plane-that-crashed-near-nellis-afb-had-wing-flap-issue/article_cdb63aba-cb00-11eb-800e-9bf833a00db2.html?block_id=994400

THE US AIR FORCE (USAF) RECENTLY DEMONSTRATED A PROCESS FOR CONVERTING COMMERCIAL-GRADE JET FUEL TO MILITARY-GRADE FUEL
https://www.flightglobal.com/fixed-wing/usaf-demos-converting-commercial-grade-jet-fuel-into-military-fuel-for-agile-operations/144192.article

SEVERAL U.S. AIR FORCE AIRCRAFT INCLUDING F-16S, C-130S, AND KC-135S HAVE DEPLOYED TO NORTHERN AFRICA FOR THE CONTINENT’S LARGEST EXERCISE, AFRICAN LION
https://www.airforcemag.com/air-force-planes-morocco-exercise-african-lion/

SONIC BOOM UPDATE IN SAN DIEGO
https://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/41058/marine-corps-admits-the-origin-of-the-san-diego-skyquake-was-probably-them

A UK WARBIRD AVIATION UPDATE
http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/a-supermarine-spitfire-super-saturday-at-north-weald.html

SALLY B UPDATE
http://warbirdsnews.com/warbirds-news/b-17-sally-b-adopts-ads-b.html