Building and Flying the Stratolaunch 'Roc'

Fighter Pilot Podcast

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

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

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Retired U.S. Air Force Colonel Evan "Ivan" Thomas joins cohost Ken "Primetime" Katz to discuss the Stratolaunch Roc—the world's largest aircraft initially designed to haul space vehicles into the upper atmosphere that instead found purpose providing commercial "access to the hypersonic" environment.

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0:58.7	Hello and welcome to the Fighter pilot podcast. I am your host Vincent Iolo Callsine-Gello,
1:14.4	and this week we are between numbered episodes, but we don't want to leave you hanging.
1:19.2	We have another fantastic interview by our very good friend and former U.S. Air Force flight test
1:24.3	engineer Ken Katz, who's back to talk about the interview before we get to it. How's it going
1:28.9	there prime time? Oh, it's been great. It's been a really busy summer, but it's been a fun summer.
1:33.6	How are you doing? You sound tired. I guess it must have been tough summer, so I'm good. Thanks for
1:38.7	asking. What's kept you so busy that you're allowed to share? Oh, well, let's get started. In May,
1:45.2	my oldest daughter graduated from law school. Congratulations. And thank you. Thank you. And then I
1:50.0	spent much of May and June, TDI and Phoenix. We're doing some testing on one of our company's
1:55.6	products. It was a fascinating test program. I worked with some great people, and we're doing
2:00.8	something that's very important to the military. But what time of year did you say you were in Phoenix?
2:05.4	The time when it's very hot. Someone planned that poorly, but okay. That's the way it goes.
2:12.8	Then in July, I went to EA Air Venture in Oshkosh as usual, and that's just incredible.
2:19.0	It's great times with a lot of friends, old and new, nearly infinite amount of aviation stuff.
2:24.4	I gave a talk about the history of the B1. There were about 200 people there. Did two book signings.
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