Plane Tales

by Capt Nick

The View from Our Side of the Cockpit Door

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RAF Form 414, Volume 39

With the influx of new Airbus airframes, Virgin needed more pilots and not just to occupy the right hand seat… there were opportunities for promotion ...

19h 25m

•Jul 19, 2026

RAF Form 414, Volume 38

And my heart went! Thump, thump, thump; thump, thump! I was lying in the King Edward the 7th hospital imagining Phil Collins playing drums on my heart...

19h 04m

•Jul 17, 2026

Basam Aggad Interview

We last spoke to Basam when he was doing his Jet Upset Training but now that he has his dream job it was appropriate that we should chat again on one ...

15h 27m

•Apr 23, 2026

RAF Form 414, Volume 36

A flock of seagulls had chosen that moment to break ground from the grass beside the runway and fly across our path. They disappeared under the nose a...

18h 49m

•Apr 23, 2026

RAF Form 414, Volume 37

The next tale from my RAF Logbook, albeit now being filled with civilian flights for Virgin Atlantic Airways… Images under Creative Commons licence wi...

16h 22m

•Mar 19, 2026

Fast Jets on the Front Line, Part 2

The second part of an interview with Alan Munro, retired RAF pilot and Cold War warrior, where we talk about his book… Fast Jets on the Front Line. Im...

20h 41m

•Mar 19, 2026