FPP168 - 50 Years of Fighter Piloting with "Frawls"

Fighter Pilot Podcast

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

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

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🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Phillip Frawley is not only a retired Royal Australian Air Force fighter pilot, he is a Guinness World Record holder for being the oldest and longest-serving fighter pilot in the world. With a half-century of service and nearly 500 flight students taught, "Frawls" has seen it all. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations

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0:00.0	As I keep telling people, firepiles fit into a very narrow demographic of the
0:04.7	population. We're eager, just to go, we're over-confident and like each other
0:10.0	because we're almost the same as each other. When I meet the guy who was to train me
0:14.4	on the Mi-21, I walked into his hotel room and it was nine o'clock in the
0:18.9	morning and he put a glass of schliver bits in the anus and said, let's go test
0:23.7	tonight. Yep, you're a fodder baller.
0:45.3	Hello and welcome to the Fighter Pilot podcast. This is episode 168. I am your
0:50.5	host Vincent Iolo Carl Sangello and we will get to our interview, which is a
0:55.1	repurposed happy hour from a couple of years ago in just a few minutes, but first
0:58.8	some announcements and listener questions. Now I am recording this on May 29th,
1:04.2	2023, which is Memorial Day and if I sound a little somber that is because I've
1:10.0	spent most of the weekend reminding people not to wish anyone a happy Memorial
1:14.5	Day because this is the day that honors those who gave their lives while in the
1:18.7	service of the US military and I personally knew 15 such individuals. I was
1:24.1	certainly around for many more, but I could recall the names of 15 two of
1:28.4	which perished right in front of me actually and so I used to wear that number
1:31.9	on the back of my helmet as my own little tribute and then this morning I went
1:35.5	to a ceremony here in Coronado where I live that was full of pomp and
1:40.2	circumstance and speeches and 21 guns salute and taps and it was a pretty
1:44.8	memorable. So I hope you've had a good holiday and by the time you'll hear
1:49.1	this it'll be over but I hope when you are enjoying some downtime that you
1:53.0	remembered those who guaranteed our freedoms by paying the ultimate sacrifice.
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