Before flying out to Malaya to join No. 194 Squadron, Flt Lt Jim Reilly purchased a second hand WW2 throat microphone. He would be flying the Sycamore helicopter, providing aerial support of the ground forces involved in the Malayan Emergency. Why did he need a throat microphone and how does one work?…

It is amazing how much one can tell about a point in time by looking at the advertising and newsreels. This is a brief introduction to one of our new regular series named Flying Back in Time.By BruceReilly

This is another story that I came across when carrying out research for the documentary Whirlwinds and Widow-Makers. I was looking at what type of selection process my father would have had to go through to get into the RAF as a pilot.By BruceReilly

Whirlwinds and Widow-Makers is the first of many long-form documentaries that we plan to release on Flights of Curiosity. It is a rather unique insight into the early days of rotary wing aircraft in the Royal Air Force, as it uses footage and photographs taken by one of the pilots who flew during this time, Flight Lieutenant Jim Reilly. Even for th…

This is a story that I came across when I was in Scotland carrying out research for the feature length documentary WHIRLWINDS and WIDOW-MAKERS.By BruceReilly