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235 F-117 Stealth Fighter Designer Alan Brown + GA News

Aviation News Talk – Pilot Stories, Safety Tips & General Aviation News

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Leisure, News, Aviation

4.8788 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 61 minutes

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235 F-117 Stealth Fighter Designer Alan Brown + GA News

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Summary
235 Max talks about his friend Alan Brown, who passed away. Alan was Chief Designer and later Program Manager for the F-117 Stealth Fighter. In 2015 Max interviewed Alan and he replays that interview.

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Mentioned in the Show
YouTube video –Seaplane Engine Failure
Alan Brown presentation at ERAU Prescott
Alan Brown Oral History
Alan Brown Biography
Alan Brown obituary
How Serbians were able to shoot down an F-117
Why the F-35 program is a mess

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk General Aviation with relevant news

0:06.4

and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe.

0:09.9

I'm Max Truscott.

0:10.7

I'm the author of several books on the G-1000, 3,000, 5,000, and prospective glass cockpits

0:16.5

and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year.

0:20.1

This show is a tribute to my friend Alan

0:22.2

Brown, who was the chief designer and later program manager for the F-117A stealth fighter.

0:28.3

Alan passed away two weeks ago, and today I'll play an interview I did with him a couple of years

0:32.5

before I started this podcast in which he talks about designing the stealth fighter.

0:37.5

Last week in episode 234, we talked with Seth Lake about expense sharing and illegal charters,

0:42.9

something all pilots need to understand to comply with the FARs.

0:46.3

So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out at aviation newstalk.com

0:50.5

slash 234.

0:52.6

And this is a listener-supported show, so we are ad-free.

0:56.3

But I would like to encourage you to sign up to become a member to help support the show.

1:00.5

You can do that by going out to aviation news talk.com slash awesome.

1:05.1

And when you do, you can get some of the goodies that you'll read about on the website,

1:08.5

and I'll read your name on the show.

1:10.4

This week in the news, we have an update on the Cessna 172 that crashed on a bridge in Miami a few

1:15.5

weeks ago. Another pilot is arrested for using a false an entity, and this time it's a woman.

1:21.4

And finally, a farmer is in trouble for disabling a number of automated weather systems,

1:26.4

one of them at an airport, and we'll tell you why he did it.

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