Episodes

What do noise-canceling headphones, the first Air Force One, and a brand-new aviation magazine have in common? Each started with someone who saw a problem and didn’t wait for someone else to fix it.

Shawn first sits down with Dan Gauger, the Bose engineer who helped turn Dr. Amar Bose’s sketch on a Swissair flight into the first noise-canceling aviation headset. Then he tells the story of the bold, unapproved cold call that put those headsets on the Rutan Voyager’s history-making nonstop flight around the world.

Next, at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, Shawn talks with Rob Clapper of the First Air Force One Foundation about Columbine II. It’s the Lockheed Constellation that carried President Eisenhower and made the “Air Force One” call sign necessary. The Foundation is restoring it to share with students everywhere.