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Nov 2, 2026

Evidentiary Podcast

Evidentiary Podcast

Rendlesham: The Memo, the Tape, and the Lights

Nov 2 · 1 Mention

Lew Austin HastingsHOST
30:14
They are not new confirmations.
Lew Austin HastingsHOST
30:17
The Air Force Historical Research Agency told us it could not undertake the general research requested and directed us toward the freedom of information process.
Lew Austin HastingsHOST
30:28
Our liaison message asks where a focused request belongs.
Lew Austin HastingsHOST
30:33
It is not a completed formal filing.

Unknown podcast

The Northrop YB-49 Flying Wing, the October Twenty-First First Flight of Nineteen Forty-Seven, and the Political Cancellation That Could Not Kill Jack Northrop's Dream

Oct 21 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
11:08
He just had to wait long enough to find out he was right.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:11
Sources for today's segment include the National Air and Space Museum, the Edwards Air Force Base Historical Records, and the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:19
More stories from the flight line at RadioHanger.com. I'm Tail Dragger.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:23
We'll talk again.

Unknown podcast

Operation Tidal Wave, the Low-Level Ploesti Raid, and the Five Medals of Honor Won in a Single Mission

Oct 20 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
12:21
That is what Operation Tidal Wave was.
Tail DraggerHOST
12:23
Sources today come from Leon Wolf's low-level mission, the standard account of the Ploesti raid since 1957, and the Air Force Historical Research Agency's mission records from the Mediterranean Theater.
Tail DraggerHOST
12:33
Both are worth your time if you want the full picture.
Tail DraggerHOST
12:36
Find us at RadioHanger.com. I'm Teldrager.

Unknown podcast

The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt, Alexander Kartveli's Heavyweight Champion, and the Eight-Ton Jug That Outlasted Everything the Luftwaffe Threw at It

Oct 19 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
13:16
Some things are just built that way.
Tail DraggerHOST
13:17
Roger Freeman's Thunderbolt, a documentary history of the Republic P-47, and Robert Johnson's own memoir, Thunderbolt, were the main sources for the stories in today's show, along with records from the Air Force Historical Research Agency, RadioHangar.com. I'm TailDragger, see you next time.

Unknown podcast

Operation Tidal Wave, the B-24 Liberators That Flew Into the Flak at Fifty Feet, and the Five Medals of Honor Won Over Ploesti on August First Nineteen Forty-Three

Oct 16 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
12:05
My research today draws on James Dougan and Carol Stewart's Ploiești, one of the most thorough histories of the mission ever written, and on the crew accounts archived by the American Air Museum at Imperial War Museums Duxford in Britain.
Tail DraggerHOST
12:18
The official records live at the Air Force Historical Research Agency at Maxwell Air Force Base in Alabama.
Tail DraggerHOST
12:23
Find us at radiohangar.com. I'm Taildragger.
Tail DraggerHOST
12:26
Those men flew.

Unknown podcast

Claire Chennault, the American Volunteer Group, and the Shark-Mouthed P-40s That Held the Sky Over China Before America Knew It Was at War

Oct 13 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
11:51
That strikes me as worth knowing about.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:53
Sources for today include Daniel Ford's Flying Tigers, which is the most readable account I know of, and the Air Force Historical Research Agency records on the American Volunteer Group.
Tail DraggerHOST
12:03
For deeper reading, the Oral History Project at the University of North Texas collected interviews with AVG veterans that are absolutely worth your time.
Tail DraggerHOST
12:12
Find more aviation history at radiohangar.com. I'm Taildragger.

Unknown podcast

The 1924 Army World Flight, the Four Douglas World Cruisers, and the First Circumnavigation of the Globe by Air That America Somehow Forgot

Oct 12 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
11:23
None of it happens without the World Cruiser coming home.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:26
Most of the historical detail I've drawn on today comes from the Air Force Historical Research Agency's records of the flight, the National Air and Space Museum's documentation of the Chicago, and the account assembled by historians at the Smithsonian.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:37
It doesn't have as much shelf space as Lindbergh, but the primary sources are there if you want to go deep.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:41
You can find us at radiohangar.com. I'm Tail Dragger, September 28th, 1924.
The UFOs and Aliens Podcast: Sightings, Encounters, Disclosure, and Extraterrestrial Mysteries

The UFOs and Aliens Podcast: Sightings, Encounters, Disclosure, and Extraterrestrial Mysteries

Great Falls Radar‑Visual Mysteries: Untangling Early UAP in Montana's Skies

Oct 11 · 1 Mention

Top 50%
TonyHOST
9:01
In the Great Falls area, wind tunnels at the base or atmospheric anomalies over the Missouri River Valley might have amplified these effects.
TonyHOST
9:12
When we dig into the documentation available from the Air Force Historical Research Agency and the National Archives, we find declassified reports that include log entries labeled Object Teach 12 with descriptive details that were never fully corroborated by physical evidence.
TonyHOST
9:32
The chain of custody for the Mariana footage itself is relatively robust because it was part of a 1956 documentary.
TonyHOST
9:40
Yet the original reels have been digitized only in recent decades, which introduces concerns about image compression artifacts and potential bias introduced by editors selecting the most striking frames.

Unknown podcast

Robin Olds, Operation Bolo, and the MiG Trap That Gutted North Vietnam's Air Force in Twelve Minutes

Oct 11 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
10:56
It has to do with the human tendency to believe what we expect to see.
Tail DraggerHOST
10:59
A pilot who had been flying since before jet engines existed looked at that trust and asked one question: What does the enemy believe they’re seeing, and what happens if we give it to them? The Air Force Historical Research Agency has the 8th Tactical Fighter Wing’s operational records from that period, and Christina Olds wrote a biography of her father that puts you in the cockpit.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:17
It’s simply titled Fighter Pilot, and it belongs on any aviation shelf.
Tail DraggerHOST
11:22
RadioHangar.com for more.

Unknown podcast

The Question Mark, the Fokker Trimotor Over Southern California, and the Six-Day Endurance Record That Proved Aerial Refueling Could Change Everything

Oct 9 · 1 Mention

Tail DraggerHOST
11:53
Some of them just land at a field in Los Angeles, and five exhausted men get helped off the airplane, and someone hands them a cup of coffee, and a question gets answered.
Tail DraggerHOST
12:01
Most of what you heard today comes from the Air Force Historical Research Agency records and James Parton's biography of Ira Eaker.
Tail DraggerHOST
12:08
You can find more at radiohangar.com. I'm Taildragger.
Tail DraggerHOST
12:10
Fly safe.

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