Hosts Hoffers and Brady analyze aviation incidents from runway mishaps to the Air France Flight 447 crash, offering insights into flight safety.
22 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
5: Four Reds - You Hit The Bread
Hosts Hoffers and Brady explore aviation oddities, from a bakery van crash to the miraculous Aloha Airlines Flight 243, offering listeners a unique look at air travel's unexpected moments.
5 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
4: Do Pilots Adopt the Brace Position?
Hosts Hoffers and Brady explore aviation mysteries from cockpit views to underwater wreckage and historical disasters, offering insights into flight's unexpected turns.
9 Jul 2026TRANSCRIPT
3: Unusual Attitudes
Host Jack Brady and guest host Chris Hoffers explore aviation anomalies, from aerobatic flights to infamous crashes, offering insights into flight safety and pilot decision-making.
26 Jun 2026
2: Pope on a Plane and the Gimli Glider
Hoffers and Brady discuss checking pilots, water salutes. celebrity passengers (including the Pope), Lego sets, and the famous Gimli Glider incident.
Support our new project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Runway23
Best Pilot I Ever Saw clip from The Right Stuff - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqPkIgBqMCY
The Right Stuff (book) - https://amzn.to/4w67wf5 The Right Stuff (movie) - https://amzn.to/4uW5wVW
Episode 1 including our discussion of water salutes - https://www.runway23.fm/episodes/001
Water Cannon mishap - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gs62siHe0XA
The Pope in the jumpseat - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWREXpXY8XY
The Pope’s plane won’t fly - https://edition.cnn.com/2026/06/12/europe/pope-leo-plane-grounded-spain-rome-intl
Hoffers pictures with celebrity passengers (Patreon) - https://www.patreon.com/Runway23/posts/162145907
Neil Armstrong ejects from the flying bedstead - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUJDbj9Vp5w
List of lunar modules (including Snoopy for Apollo 10) - https://historicspacecraft.com/Lunar_Module.html
ENGAGE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yBoY1SQA5A
Brady in the Space Shuttle 747 carrier - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI45Vdyth8g
Hoffers chosen Lego sets (Amazon affiliate links where possible)
Lunar Module - https://amzn.to/4gHd1fQ
Enterprise - https://amzn.to/4oP7ohy
Shuttle and 747 - https://amzn.to/4aGXb1d
Space Shuttle - https://amzn.to/3QlbUIc
Concorde - https://amzn.to/4be151x
Hoffers Lego video will be on Patreon shortly - https://www.patreon.com/cw/Runway23
Air Crash episode about the Gimli Glider - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1216433/ (have also seen it uploaded to YouTube)
Wikipedia about Gimli Glider - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimli_Glider
9 Jun 2026
1: Inverted Flying and Changing Lightbulbs
Hoffers and Brady discuss passenger plane landings, inverted selfies in military planes, barrel rolls, and the crash of Eastern Air Lines Flight 401.
Support our new project on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/cw/Runway23
Korean fighter jets collide: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czjwz8we1zzo 1983 Negev mid-air collision: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Negev_mid-air_collision
Boeing 707 barrel roll by Tex Johnston: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra_khhzuFlE
Denzel Washington flies upside down in Flight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQDKufQdkus
NTSB report on the Eastern Air Lines 401 crash: https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/AccidentReports/Reports/AAR7314.pdf
Wikipedia article on the Eastern Air Lines crash: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_Flight_401
Inside a recent episode
6: Stall! Stall!
Published 11 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] They're actually, it's almost, they're a bit asthmatic up at that level because the air is so thin. So if you sort of whack full thrust on, you'd actually don't get a lot. Down at, you know, down at lower altitude you do. But, yeah, it's simple. It's just lower the nose. Lower the nose is how you recover from a stall. And you do have to expend, you have to lose some height to do it, which, again, if you're up at cruising altitude, it's okay. So this is the thing. These guys, if they'd lowered the nose, they would have had plenty of time to recover. It's just they sat, they literally sat in a stall for three and a half minutes. […]
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