Airplane Disasters at Bridger Field - Pt 03: The Adventures of Superman (May 3, 1940)

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“Airplane Disasters at Bridger Field - Pt 03” is an episode of The Adventures of Superman, the old-time radio show, first broadcast May 3, 1940. Listen free on Stupid Potato: no sign-up, no app.

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What happens

Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen arrive at Bridger Field, a private airport in the Southwest, to investigate a series of mysterious plane crashes. Hamlin, the field's manager, believes the wrecks are deliberate, and Kent agrees, noting that the missing engines and an attack on their plane in the air point to a human hand. A dust storm rolls toward the field just as Mr. Fuller, president of the National Air Service, flies in unannounced. His plane catches fire during the approach and crashes, and Kent pulls the unconscious pilot from the wreckage. Afterward Fuller announces that a distinguished visitor will arrive at the field in two days, and Jimmy calls from Del Rio with urgent news.

Bridger Field, a private airport in the Southwest, near the town of Del Rio

Characters: Clark Kent, Jimmy Olsen, Hamlin, Bailey, Mr. Fuller

Listen for: Kent's theory that the crashes are deliberate, and Fuller's announcement of a distinguished visitor due in two days

Written from the episode itself; it never gives away the ending. Every recording is remastered for the stream: cleaned of rumble, hiss and mains hum (and the old TV whine where we found it), then levelled in two passes to steady broadcast loudness, so one show is never quieter than the next.