What a brilliant pub! Great idea with the Cambridge aerodynamicists pulling beers. I can see an awkward silence where we work ourselves into a dumb corner and a deadpan bartender resolves with a comment out of the side of the mouth while pulling beer. In terms of subject matter, everything flows from a simple story or need. ‘Why the Whirlwind got its wings clipped’ which goes into the detail of the definition of an IC power plant : engine AND blades. This goes into breaking speed records then a jaunt across country in identical Cessnas with different blade setups. Second to the new pub in Scotland pays for the beer. You are ultimately appealing to the GA aircraft owner to explain 18% reduction in fuel expenses and 32% reduction in engine wear, as well as a few Texans trying to push Sea Furies past the sound barrier. Another episode is ‘Finding blades for a Napier Sabre’ which goes into manufacturing and national history, turning a RH tractor blade into a LH tractor, forging, a visit to a pub in the Czech Republic next to Avia, a visit to a pub next to a Jablo manufacturer in Germany etc. In truth just these two questions have enough meat in them for 5 x 30min episodes each, where the real challenge is post production editing of 150 hours of raw footage into 3 hours of final film. The whole lot can be filmed in two weeks, it will take 12 months to resolve a ‘guide script’ and 6 months of post production. Easy! The interactive bit is where it gets spark, inviting participation in evolving the guide script, and bringing interactions in during filming using actors to represent forum members asking questions, generally looking like scruffy out of work actors happy to be paid in beer! I really want to bring dead people in : a hyperactive Curtiss dissing Hamilton Standard, an intimidating Roy Fedden demanding Rotol, an angry Ratier chain smoking and carrying on about patent infringement, a totally intransigent Air Ministry official for numerous stage entries, various pilots in burnt flying suits talking about overspeeding an engine, failures in Fokker interrupter gear…there’s another topic : ‘I want to shoot through my propeller’ There’s a lot of fun to be had with that one!