A long time ago (I was less than 10 years old at the time) I was invited up to the cockpit during a flight on a British Airways plane. I don't remember much about it, other than how relaxed the pilots were. It wasn't a big deal, back then - just a little something to make a long flight more fun.
Of course, that kind of ...
2021-04-20 10:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I've covered a few maritime disasters now, including at least one other ship consumed by fire. The Yarmouth Castle Disaster is the only one so far, though, that has its own song. Gordon Lightfoot wrote and recorded The Ballad of Yarmouth C...
2021-04-14 11:37:43 +0000 UTC View Post
At the end of this video I show an image of the intersection where the disaster took place. Getting the exact right location was pretty tricky, but also very interesting. The junction where the crash occurred is well known (the intersection of 63rd and State Streets), but I had to consult several accounts of the accident to w...
2021-04-06 09:30:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This one's a bit different from my usual videos... but it was a lot of fun to make. It's the first time I've ever made a serious attempt at an April Fool's prank. You probably recognise some of the pictures, but just in case you don't: here's a qu...
2021-04-02 13:54:02 +0000 UTC View Post
One of the things I most enjoyed about researching this video was trawling through newspaper articles from the time describing the effects of the Carrington Event. Part of it is just the style in which they were written - newspapers from that era had such a beautiful way of phrasing things.
Here are a couple of my favou...
2021-03-30 14:15:41 +0000 UTC View Post
