FPP078 - F-35 Lightning II
Fighter Pilot Podcast
Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2020
⏱️ 110 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to our sponsor National University. |
| 0:02.3 | National University knows how important flexibility is for busy adults going back to school. |
| 0:06.8 | After all, NU was founded by a U.S. Navy veteran. |
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| 0:20.1 | NU is a yellow ribbon school and accepts the post-911 GI Bill while offering veterans help to cover what the G-I-Bill may not. |
| 0:27.0 | To find out more, visit NU.ED |
| 0:31.0 | Well, it's taken two years and 77 episodes to get to it but your long weight is over. |
| 0:36.0 | This week on the fighter pilot podcast we finally discuss the most advanced, most complex, and most |
| 0:41.6 | expensive fighter aircraft ever designed. |
| 0:44.0 | But it may also be the most capable as we learn from our guest |
| 0:47.2 | United States Air Force Lieutenant Colonel and test pilot Tucker Hamilton. |
| 0:51.4 | I think the bread and butter of the F-35 that other platforms can't do in a stealth manner is to be able to know where |
| 1:00.0 | a target area is, go use their radar to kind of map that ground from really far away, on |
| 1:07.0 | that map, find the targets, and then going in in stealth capability and dropping weapons and egressing safely and doing all of that with |
| 1:15.2 | embedded sensors. I'm breaking left. I'm still from five miles. |
| 1:23.0 | Foggies now. |
| 1:25.0 | Two five, six, 44. |
| 1:26.0 | Overhead, overhead. |
| 1:27.0 | I'm at street, clear, clear. |
| 1:29.0 | Clear the bar. |
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