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Fighter Pilot Podcast

All about Remotely Piloted Aircraft

Fighter Pilot Podcast

E. Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, Retired U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot

History, Personal Journals, Technology, Society & Culture, Government, Leisure, Aviation

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2024

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

We finally did it.

The Fighter Pilot Podcast is going pilotless...er, well, remotely piloted (but is such an operator really a "pilot?")

On this episode, Dan "Killjoy" Martin, former U.S. Air Force RPA expert, explains his experiences flying the MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper.

Check out Killjoy's book, Predator : The Remote-Control Air War over Iraq and Afghanistan here.


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We could identify all the targets over the previous 10 hours and then the B1 would show up and they'd be having about two hours of gas, but they'd have 80 bombs and in those, you know, one to two hours the B1 could just take all those targets out and then go home so

0:44.0

having that sort of cooperative persistent capability really increases the value of the

0:49.5

man weapon systems when you're able to do that cooperative approach to the target.

0:53.2

Stand watch.

0:54.8

You're working at close five, close.

0:56.8

Last one, five, one.

1:00.8

Other stand-line.

1:01.8

Another stand-line. Another stand-line. Another stand-line. Another sandwich, another sandwich,

1:02.6

go fishing.

1:03.6

Roger Hap.

1:04.6

It's yon, quick, somebody got hit on a roll with $500.

1:07.8

Get out of here.

1:08.8

Gosh, stop you for the turbine!

1:09.8

Oh, find it me, boys. Hello and welcome're talking about

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