Fight's On! Putting it all Together (Part 2)

Fighter Pilot Podcast

Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 157 minutes

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Summary

“Putting it All Together” takes concepts from the preceding episodes and explains large scale exercises, introducing assets beyond fighters and even beyond aviation assets to train for modern multi-domain joint operations in settings such as Air Wing Fallon, Red Flag, and the Army’s NTC and JRTC. Host and panel stories illustrate the objectives and processes of these events as they have evolved over time as well as further demonstrate the limitations of exclusively physical training ranges and expense of flight hours both in monetary and airframe costs. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations

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0:00.0	Fightson is produced with commercial consideration from Kubik Corporation. Since 1972, Kubik's
0:07.4	ACMI has been a cornerstone of air combat range instrumentation. Kubik's LVC will expand
0:13.7	that capability into the future across multi-domain operations. Truth in training, Kubik
0:19.6	LVC, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.
0:24.2	Welcome back to Fightson and part two of episode seven, putting it all together. We're going
0:29.2	to start today's episode with Navy F-14 Rio and F-18 WIZO, former CEO of Top Gun and
0:35.4	retired deputy commander of Naval Air Warfare Development Center, Steve Sonic Hemenowski.
0:41.6	Sonic is going to fill us in on the philosophy behind Airwing Fallon, which prepares carrier
0:46.3	airwings for deployment, as well as the expanding role not at his playing in bringing war-fighting
0:51.3	excellence not just to aviation, but across the fleet. You're cleared hot because the
0:56.4	fight's on.
1:18.6	We flew around in 30 minutes later. I'm bleeding all over the cockpit. The aircraft is,
1:23.0	you know, beeping them, bobbin them, and making all kinds of weird noises and falling apart.
1:47.3	Turn in, Fightson.
1:49.7	Hey, welcome back, everyone. We're here with Steve Sonic Hemenowski, retired US Navy F-14 Rio
1:58.3	and F-18 WIZO. Welcome, Steve.
2:00.8	Well, thanks, Scott. It's great to be here.
2:02.8	All right. Well, Sonic is, I'll call you if that's all right. Why don't you give us your
2:06.4	background commissioning, how you got to fly the Tomcat and then the Hornet and what you did
2:11.7	during your career.
2:12.7	You bet. I'll try to keep this somewhat concise, but after 30 years, it's kind of hard to
2:16.9	bound it all in there. But Naval Academy graduate, class in 1992, grew up in touch with Pennsylvania.
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