51: Look Ahead at 2025's Aerospace Books
Join us as we look at what literary treasures await us in upcoming books in aerospace defense history. What are we excited about, what have we been reading? What have you been reading, and what are yo...
31 Jan 202527min
50: 50th Episode Celebration
We look back at 50 episodes of the "From Balloons to Drones" podcast, revisit our favorites, and look at where we're heading in the future!
1 Nov 202439min
49: "A Dizzy Idea" - The Airplanes that Didn't Make It with Kenneth P. Werrell
For every military aircraft that takes to the skies, there are so many others that never got off the drawing board, or never made it into full production. Renowned and prolific aviation historian Kenn...
1 Okt 202429min
48: "Keep 'Em Flying!" Stan Fisher on Keeping WW2 Carriers Running
The Pacific Theater of WW2 was massive, not only in size, but in the huge numbers of ships and airplanes. Keeping a force like that operational and effective takes a huge amount of work behind the sce...
1 Sep 202432min
47: "There is a Holy Trinity of US Air Force History": Brian Laslie on the history of USAF
Today we put our own co-host Brian Laslie, in the hot seat to talk about his newest book: Fighting from Above: A Combat History of the US Air Force, from University of Oklahoma Press. He discusses the...
1 Apr 202428min
46: "I want to serve in the same way they did" - the WW2 WASP with Dr. Sarah Myers
During World War II, men were not the only ones flying military airplanes. Many women flew all kinds of aircraft in a variety of roles, many of them members of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WAS...
1 Mars 202431min
45: "A Bridge to 21st Century Spaceships" - Astronaut Tom Jones on the Space Shuttle
We're so excited to be joined by veteran astronaut Tom Jones to talk about the history of the U.S. Space Shuttle Program. Having flown in space on four shuttle missions, Jones shares not only his own ...
1 Feb 202434min
44: "The Americans were clearly defeated in 1943..." Luke Truxal on Commanding Air Power in WW2
Dr. Luke Truxal is author of the new book, Uniting Against the Reich: The American Air War in Europe, from University Press of Kentucky. In it, he traces how the structure of command over air forces i...
1 Jan 202434min
