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Episode 2: Great Air Races (Part 2) from 2020-04-21T02:07:55
This is part two in our series on the Golden Age of Aviation and the Great Air Races. Last time it was the 1919 England to Australia Flight, this time we’re going to be talking about the 1934 Me...
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Great Air Races – Episode 2 (Part 1) from 2019-08-20T15:58:49
Heavier-than-air flight is just over a hundred years old but has been crucial to the progress of mankind in the 20th century and beyond, both in peacetime and in war. We’re going to be looking a...
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Trailer–Great Air Races – Episode 2 from 2019-08-08T13:21:38
This is a short trailer for Hard Hat History’s latest episode on the Great Air Races of the Golden Age of Aviation. Audio from contemporary British Movietone newsreel footage. Those heard speaki...
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Terra Nova Expedition – Episode 1 (Part 2) from 2019-03-20T19:10:04
This is part two of two in our podcast series on polar exploration in the early 20th century and particularly Scott’s “Terra Nova” expedition. In the first part we covered how they got there and...
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Polar Exploration – Episode 1 (Part 1) from 2019-03-05T21:37:56
At the tail end of the heroic age of exploration there remained one major achievement to allure intrepid polar pioneers ‒ the reaching of the geographical South Pole. In an era where few expedit...
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