Mike "Coma" Reed and Flying Fighters in the Cold War Far East

Lessons From The Cockpit

English - September 23, 2021 03:38 - 1 hour - 94.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
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Welcome to this week's episode of Lessons from the Cockpit.

My best friend from my boyhood Mike Reed callsign COMA was in Utah this last week. He and I sat down to talk about his lessons from flying F-4 Phantoms during the Cold War in the Far East and aeronautical engineering.

Sun Tzu's first chapter in The Art of War opens with the line "The art of war is of vital importance to the State." You may not have an interest in geopolitics but geopolitics will always have an interest in you. Coma explains how geopolitics changed his Air Force career goal and directly influenced real-world missions flying F-4E Phantom IIs fighters at Osan Air Base Korea and Clark Air Base The Philippines.

Once your passion for aviation is discovered, you will do whatever it takes to overcome the walls and obstacles placed in front of you. Coma shows how he pushed through the walls of geopolitics and a demanding aeronautical engineering senior project to get into Air Force Navigator Training.

All of us were placed here to do great things. Sometimes bad and horrible things happen in our lives. Coma's mother taught him the "art of moving along", not letting your past be a roadblock to your future after she survived the Japanese bombing and occupation of Manila during World War II.

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To learn more about the NASA HIMAT project Mike mentions go here:

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-025-DFRC.html

To learn more about aerodynamic wings called canards mentioned during the podcast go here:

https://www.boldmethod.com/learn-to-fly/aircraft-systems/canards/

Thanks for joining us for this episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit show.