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Fighter Pilot Podcast

Fight's On! Wings of Gold

Fighter Pilot Podcast

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

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

4.92.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2022

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

The first Fight's On! episode, "Wings of Gold," chronicles the path of naval aviators from college graduate through winging and beyond. 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 Kubrick Corporation.

0:04.9

The U.S. Navy Fighter Weapon School, Top Gun, is known worldwide as a center of training

0:09.6

excellence in air combat.

0:11.6

From the time of its founding in 1969, the school has exemplified its motto, you fight like

0:16.8

you train.

0:18.2

Since 1972, an integral component of Top Gun's ability to train world-class aviators has

0:24.1

been Kubrick's air combat-maneuvering instrumentation system, ACMI, providing high fidelity time-space

0:30.7

position information to teach air crews the critical lessons needed to win in air combat.

0:36.6

Tomorrow's fight will be even more complex, requiring even greater fidelity and capability

0:41.3

in training to achieve victory across all war-fighting spectrums.

0:45.9

Kubrick's next generation, blended live virtual constructive or LVC training system, prepares

0:52.1

war fighters for the high-end, all-domain fight, integrating unprecedented realism, superior

0:57.9

readiness, and unmatched total cost of ownership, achieving maximum mission readiness and enabling

1:03.9

success on night one and beyond.

1:07.0

Truth in training, Kubrick LVC, yesterday, today, and tomorrow.

1:12.8

Welcome to Fightson, an eight-part podcast series sponsored by Kubrick Corporation.

1:18.2

Fightson is a journey through military aviation training, from initial flight school selection

1:22.8

through postgraduate courses like Top Gun, culminating in a discussion of the challenges

1:27.6

of training to future threats and technology, including fifth-gen platforms in the need

1:32.4

to be even more connected in multi-domain air-to-air and air-to-ground operations.

1:38.7

My name is Scott Chafian and I'll be your host for Fightson.

1:42.2

I'm a retired naval officer who spent my career first in surface warfare, focusing

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