Ep.13 RAL Space and Captain Eric Winkle Brown

We visit the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Space facility and get to talk to Britain’s (and some say the world’s) greatest test pilot – Captain Eric Winkle Brown for another aerospace packed programme.

Eric Brown © Aero Society

We have more give-aways and competitions, last episode’s results, listener messages and your involvement, Things You Never Knew About…, Promoting Aerospace and of course the out-takes; where Pieter proves that it is not wise to drink cider when recording!

MIRI in the Space Test Chamber © 2013-Science and Technology Facilities Council

Running Order (Hrs.Mins.Secs):

0.02.11 News Update
0.19.01 RAL Space
0.49.26 Captain Eric Winkle Brown
1.13:09 LEO Competition
1.15.06 ‘Things You Never Knew About…’
1.17.31 GetInvolved
1.32.04 Promoting Aerospace
1.40.57 Programme end and outtakes
1.47.32 End

RNHF Swordfish Over London © RNHF

Further Links for this show:

News:

Married couple to Mars http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21603490

One way ticket to Mars http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22146456

Dad builds spaceship for son http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/10/dad-builds-spaceship-for-son-_n_3054032.html

B777X http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323716304578481260925545802.html

Battle of the Atlantic https://www.gov.uk/government/news/warships-in-london-for-battle-of-atlantic-commemorations

RAL Space:

http://www.stfc.ac.uk/RALSpace

http://twitter.com/RAL_Space_STFC

http://www.facebook.com/pages/RAL-Space

Farnborough Air Sciences Trust:

http://www.airsciences.org.uk/

http://www.codystatue.org.uk/

Captain Eric Winkle Brown:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wings-My-Sleeve-Worlds-Greatest/dp/0753822091/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1369128257&sr=1-1&keywords=wings+on+my+sleeves

Promoting Aerospace:

Bugatti 100 Restoration Project http://bugatti100p.com/

Royal Navy Historic Flight http://www.royalnavyhistoricflight.org.uk

www.XTPMedia.co.uk/specials

RN Yeovilton 2013 Air Day http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/yeovilton-airday

Supporters and Competitions:

http://skyrocketcafe.com/ http://leo-lowearthorbit.com/

www.BiPlaneDisplays.com

www.Spit4Hire.com

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