Manual ability was impossible at that point, the aircraft started to roll, I ordered the ejection.

My navigator was first and then I went off the apron, the apron crashing less than a second.

When we pulled the handle we were 30 feet.

Hello and welcome to episode 170 of The Fighter Pilot Podcast.

I am your usual host Vincent Ayello called Sign Jello, but this week we have a guest co-host helping out.

He'll be along with his guest in a few minutes and we'll talk more about that after some quick announcements and listener questions.

Anyway, I hope you all are doing well and enjoying your last few days of spring as we get close to summer here.

And let's see, last episode 169, boy, that was a big hit.

You might have heard it, it featured my friend Brett Crosier, retired Navy captain, former helicopter pilot, turned jet pilot.

And then of course he was in the news back at the beginning of COVID.

Well, we enjoyed that discussion and I already read his books or if you can, enjoyed that.

I highly recommend you pick it up.

And here's an interesting little tidbit for you.

The former acting secretary of the Navy emailed the show right after that episode came out and he offered to come on

and tell his side of the story and suggested I read his book.

So we'll see where that goes.

But we had a pretty good back and forth email exchange.

So anyway, big thanks to Brett Crosier for coming on the show and everybody who does really.

Now that episode came out the same day my wife and I celebrated our silver anniversary.

Those of you who follow the show on Instagram might have seen some photographs of our wedding 25 years ago.

On board USS John F. Kennedy.

We got married on board an aircraft carrier right back at the one wire where I spent most of my time landing anyway.

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