4: Do Pilots Adopt the Brace Position?

Hoffers and Brady discuss scenery from the cockpit, a Blue Angel beat-up, a flying lesson tragedy, an aircraft under the sea, the Kegworth Disaster, a little bit of Lego, and some ancient artefacts.

The little cabin bongs during our podcast denote a link or piece of information here in the notes.

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Re-Live Brady’s Aerobatics Flight (Patron Bonus) - https://www.patreon.com/Runway23/posts/bradys-full-all-163348746

Brady’s Ansett Article including Captain Kirk (Patron Bonus) - https://www.patreon.com/Runway23/posts/165755645

Views of Ayers Rock (Uluru) from the air (on Google Earth) - https://shorturl.at/onvYY

Blue Angels - https://www.blueangels.navy.mil/

Blue Angels Beat-Up - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/WlCtxNJtGqg

The Apache Low Pass - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qucd_530Rlc

The 777 Low Pass (from our last episode) - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uNDRJOgmGvM

Flight Instructor Tragedy in Argentina - https://edition.cnn.com/2026/07/08/americas/argentina-pilot-death-scli-intl

Pan Am 526A - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_526A

Pan Am 526A discovered underwater - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKdoOlImIng

MH370 a needle in a haystack - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370

ETOPS - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS

The Kegworth Disaster - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kegworth_air_disaster

BBC breaking news for Kegworth disaster - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26HSluxDsuY

The M1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_motorway

Lego - Jabba’s Barge - https://amzn.to/4wE6MP3

The Australian Baggy Green - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baggy_green