Taking Off Podcast – Aviation Life
Dan Millican, Christy Wong, and Baylee Ward talk all about aviation—from discussing air disasters and plane crashes to the latest flying techniques and training. All to help the listener be better pilots and better people.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 30 minutes
- Episodes
- 75
- Years Active
- 2023 - 2025
#14 Worst Crash that NEVER Happened
Dan (@TakingOffDan) and Christy (@PilotChristy) discuss the Worst Accident that NEVER Happened! In 2017, around midnight, Air Canada 759 misstook the taxiway for the runway, in which 4 airliners, al…
#13 EAA Airventure OshKosh 2023
Dan (@TakingOffDan) and Christy (@PilotChristy) talk to EAA’s Director of Communications Dick Knapinski about the upcoming EAA Airventure July 24-30, 2023. They discuss the Notice (or NOTAM) for fly…
#12 Checkride Talk with DPE
Dan Millican (@TakingOffDan) and Christy Wong (@PilotChristy) host In The Hangar with Designated Pilot Examiner (DPE) Joe Casey. He answers Dan and Christy’s questions, gives tips and techniques, an…
#11 Worst Aviation Crash EVER!! Tenerife#11
Dan (@TakingOffDan) and Christy (@PilotChristy) discuss the darkest day ever for commercial aviation—March 27, 1977. On the Canary Island of Tenerife, a KLM 747 and a Pan Am 747 had been diverted to…
#10 Emergency Highway Landing!
From the In The Hangar series, Dan Millican hosts Cameron Morrison, less than a week after his emergency landing in his Piper Comanche, with his wife and baby on board. With nerves of steel, Cameron…
#9 Brad Student Pilot
Brad Herbert (@bradvr4) has worked with Dan (@TakingOffDan) for over 20 years. And he’s always wanted to learn to fly. Brad has started taking flying lessons and recently solo’d. While on a trip from…
#8 The Worst Crash in US History
Dan (@TakingOffDan) and Christy (@PilotChristy) talk about the deadliest airplane crash in the United States—the crash of American Airlines Flight 191 at Chicago O’Hare on May 25, 1979.
The full…
#7 Fighter Pilots
In one of our first In The Hangar shows, Dan Millican sat down with F-4 Phantom pilot Gary Pfleiger and F-18 fighter pilot Jason Gustin. Hear their stories about raids over the jungles, tricky carri…
#6 JustPlaneSilly Secret Revealed
@TakingOffDan is in the plane for this podcast with @JustPlaneSilly doing the flying and his wife Eren in the back. They catch up on happenings at SUN’nFUN, the journey there and back, and most impo…
#5 Christys New Series – Pilot Life
Christy (@PilotChristy) and Dan (@TakingOffDan) talk about how the new series “Pilot Life” came about and how long it took to get permission from Envoy and why Christy was reticent to film it. Christ…
#4 InFlight Emergencies
From the very first In The Hangar, join hosts Dan Millican (@TakingOffDan) and Christy Wong (@PilotChristy) as they interview general aviation pilots who’ve had actual inflight emergencies. They shar…
#3 Randy Rhoads Guitarist for Ozzy Plane Crash
March 19, 1982, Ozzy Osbourne and his band was traveling from Knoxville, Tennessee to Orlando Florida when the bus driver decided to stop at the bus company’s owner’s house on a private airstrip. Wh…
#2 Colgan 3047 Crash
Colgan Air Flight 3407 was a regional flight for Continental. On February 12, 2009, the plane departed Newark at 9:18pm EST. The trip was mostly uneventful until the plane was instructed to interce…
#1 Patsy Cline Crash Behind the Scenes
March 5, 1963, country music lost some of its top performers, headlined by Patsy Cline in a small plane crash in Tennessee. On the plane was Patsy manager and the pilot, Randy Hughes, performers Cowb…
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