FPP053 - F-4 Phantom II (part 2)
Fighter Pilot Podcast
Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 29 July 2019
⏱️ 65 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | Well, hello everyone and welcome back to the fighter pilot podcast. On this episode we are |
| 0:36.2 | resuming our discussion on the F4 Phantom 2 and we will be doing that with Tiger and Fingers but right now we got sunshine |
| 0:45.6 | on the line and what did you think of the last episode bad dude loved it I |
| 0:48.9 | stunning though so the Princeton grad there Tiger right 3,? 3,000, 3,000 F4 hours? |
| 0:54.6 | And 30, and then, oh, by the way, he went on to fly the F14. |
| 0:57.9 | Yeah, holy count, and 35 years of active and reserve service. |
| 1:01.0 | And then, yeah, and then fingers with 2,000 hours right in the back seat of the F4 though so just |
| 1:05.7 | another amazing story and I can't wait for the listeners to hear the story of how he got |
| 1:10.5 | his call sign fingers. Well, it's not a great story, but now that it's over, we can all laugh about it and he's certainly |
| 1:17.8 | learned how to deal with it. |
| 1:18.8 | Great attitude, yeah. |
| 1:20.4 | Oh, yeah, for sure. |
| 1:21.8 | And on that note, Sunshine, I just want to comment that when I interview someone, I usually try to do just a little bit of editing to make everyone sound their best. So for, for example if someone says four ten times like I just did on purpose |
| 1:36.8 | I cut about six of those out and I just make it you know it's like putting. You're already beautiful, but then you're more beautiful with makeup. So, but the point I'm trying to get to eventually here is that when it comes time for fingers to tell his story of the call sign and his imprisonment leading up to that, |
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