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Everyone knows the star of the hit movie Top Gun was the F-14. But do you know which

Western fighter starred across from the Tomcat as its nemesis? This week on the

fighter pilot podcast, retired US Navy Reserve Commander Paco Kirichi,

mastermind of the Naval Aviation Theme documentary Speed and Angels, joins us to discuss that aircraft including the time he was nearly

killed in one. So I was going off into the gravel and I shut the engines down and

and right as I was about to slide off I I got a little left side slip, the left main mount dug in,

the plane kind of heaved up on its side, paused for a second, and then flipped over.

And then the canopy glass shattered, and I was upside down with this plexiglass dagger

in my neck.

So I got his car. Stret. Strap in for the fighter pilot podcast, the Internet radio show that explores the

fascinating world of air combat, the aircraft, the weapon systems, and most importantly, the people.

Now here are your hosts, retired U.S. Navy fighter pilots, Vincent Diello, and Brian Sinclair.

Sunshine,

Sunshine,

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