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Spitfire in a Living Room; Learning to Fly at 90
The Two Thousand Feet Aviation Podcast
English - January 10, 2020 06:00 - 18 minutes - 13 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingAviation Leisure Technology aviation pilot microlight light aviation general aviation nppl ppl flexwing flight instructor cfi Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: The Best of 2019: Over the Everest in a Microlight, Aviation as Art, Santa Claus is Flying to Town
We meet Tony Dyer, who re-builds original World War II cockpits and keeps them in his living room. And in his garage. And in his hallways. And in his shed. And also, in the Boscombe Down Aviation Collection. How do you get hold of an original Spitfire control stick? And how do you put together a Hurricane cockpit from hundreds, thousands of different bits?
Across the ocean, in Texas, Richard Gent has just solo-ed again. At the age of 90. After a 48-year gap in his flying career. Why? And what is it like, to learn to fly at that age?