F-15 Eagle Driver, "Disco" Dildy (Part 1)
10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit
English - September 22, 2023 18:00 - 2 hours - 84.2 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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00:00:00 Intro
00:03:40 Getting into flying and the military
00:07:00 Early non-conformism and academy adventures
00:13:30 FAIP
00:19:25 Dangers of complacency
00:21:35 Setting sights on flying the Eagle
00:27:40 Early influence/fighter culture?
00:30:50 State of Air Force at the inception of the Eagle
00:38:10 The fighter mafia and replacing the Phantom with the Viper NOT the Eagle
00:47:20 Inauspicious specs of initial Viper!
00:48:35 “Free” bomb dropping capability built into the Eagle
00:51:05 Getting started with the F-15 at Bitburg
00:56:25 As to Cs and developments in weapons and avionics
01:07:10 Back to Bitburg and the threat/myth of the Flogger
01:14:55 Tactics in the face of comms jamming (pre-datalink)
01:20:42 Sparrow to AMRAAM
01:28:00 Importance of SA
01:35:15 Expectation vs reality (briefing vs doing)
01:41:10 “Tumbleweed”
01:44:40 Personal development (and golf)
01:59:30 Preview of future episodes
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