Flying F/A-18 Hornet Post-maintenance Check Flights at FRCSW
Fighter Pilot Podcast
Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2023
⏱️ 95 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to our sponsor, National University. National University knows how important flexibility is |
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| 0:27.7 | visit nu.edu-forthslash-v-e-t. When I was there, I thought every F-18 pilot in the flu |
| 0:35.2 | should come through and spend a couple hours here, because when you see how many components |
| 0:40.0 | are inside, how many hours and hours or sometimes days, just to put on a landing gear maybe, |
| 0:45.6 | I think there's a lot of value in people having that appreciation. |
| 0:57.8 | Welcome to the Fighter Pilot Podcast. I am your occasional host, Ken Katz, |
| 1:13.5 | call sign, prime time. Today, our guest is well-known to all Fighter Pilot Podcast listeners. |
| 1:20.4 | Welcome, Jello. Thanks, prime time. Yeah, you got the tables swapped on me here, huh? |
| 1:26.3 | Well, before we get to the interview, how did you and I end up on the opposite sides of the mic |
| 1:30.4 | for? Well, I think it's because you and I were chatting via what, text or email, and I said, |
| 1:37.7 | hey, Ken, I'm trying to have something come out every Monday now, and I don't really have |
| 1:43.0 | anything to you have anything, and you said no, but what if I interview you? Yeah, I thought you've |
| 1:47.8 | certainly have a lot of interesting stuff to say, and not all of it has been said, so I figured |
| 1:53.4 | that it'd be a good thing to do. Well, that is very true, and I'm glad to sit on this side of it, |
| 1:58.8 | and hopefully be able to relax. Usually, I have to think about what to say next, and where we're |
| 2:03.2 | going with the conversation, so I'm just going to crack open a cold one and let's go. Let's do it. |
| 2:08.3 | So what's doing in your life these days? Well, if you're listening to the show lately, Ken, |
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