Journalist and author Alexander Mladenov joins us from Sofia in Bulgaria to talk through the four generations of Soviet Fighter aircraft from the early MiGs and Yaks through to the later air-superiority models, familiar in the skies around the world today.

Rowland White returns to discuss the Space Shuttle and his latest best-selling book, ‘Into The Black’. We have listener questions for Rowland along with our regular segments on News and Promoting Aerospace.

In this Xtra episode we feature Jeanette Remak and her book ‘To slip the Surly Bonds- NASA, the Shuttle Disaster and the demise of the US Manned Space Program’.

In this Xtra episode we cover the retirement of the Royal Navy Sea King Mk 4 ‘The Junglie’, the Barracuda Restoration Project and talk to Naval Air Historian Matt Willis about his new books on the Fairey Barracuda and Blackburn Shark.