Airs & Graces with Ian MacLachlan

Airs & Graces 

with Ian MacLachlan

 7 weeks – Each Friday morning 10.00 to 12.00 noon  

 23 October to 04 December 2026

Aviation author, TV historian and tutor, Ian McLachlan, takes you on flights of fact, fancy and futility, exploring the development of aviation through centuries of myth, legend and reality. From Icarus and Daedalus through bold pioneers launching themselves into oblivion, to more serious studies by intellectuals and scientists. 

The advent of balloons and man-carrying kites contributed to today’s technology and understanding, enabling mankind to become more reliably airborne.  This created a daring age for flying with thrilling aerobatics, air races and trophies enthralling air-minded audiences. Pilots and parachutists – men and women – took to, or fell from, the skies. Fascinating human-interest accounts plus episodes from regional aviation history enhance your experience before the age of aviation innocence was obliterated during the Great War as aircraft adopted more sinister roles.