Air Force Test Pilot - Jim Jimenez
10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit
English - January 20, 2024 17:00 - 1 hour - 71.9 MBAviation Leisure Science aviation history fast jet fighter jet war military flying air force combat fighter pilot Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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0:00 Intro and welcome back Jim
0:55 “Coming down” after the Libya raid
3:30 Raiders set apart and psychology?
7:10 Avoiding inflation of ego
9:20 Test pilot school - ambition/aspiration/evaluation
15:20 Weapons school not a priority
16:55 Evaluation flights and data points
20:20 Variations in sample data
25:10 School
28:05 Balance of classroom/flying and type variation and contemporaries
39:05 Did it feel safe?
42:10 Is there a type of person that excels as a test pilot
44:30 System testing? No thanks, I want to go back
48:10 Strike Eagle
55:50 Commercial break
56:44 Testing on the 111 and AMRAAM
1:03:50 The B-1 and shooting at it!
1:10:08 Have Nap AGM-142
1:11:40 Weapons separation?
1:15:15 Did weapon testing ease the “pain” of not being on frontline / Desert Storm begins
1:19:20 Planning for a brand new fighter (F-15E) with new crews and little operational capability
1:24:40 ACE - airborne command element
1:25:50 Back to Elgin and then “somewhere else” with a polygraph required
1:30:25 En exclusive bar in an undisclosed location
1:34:42 Will this work ever be declassified?
1:36:00 Close calls and reflection?
1:41:40 A promise to return and reflect on Air Force Training Command