FPP175 - MiG Killer Reconciles with Former Enemy

Fighter Pilot Podcast

E. Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, Retired U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot

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

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2023

⏱️ 91 minutes

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The son in the only father-son duo to each down an opponent in aerial combat tells the story of his Vietnam MiG-21 shoot down and reconciliation with the deceased pilot's family 40+ years later. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations

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0:27.7	visit nu.edu-forthslash-v-e-t. I'm lifted my wing to go over these trees. We're pulling six
0:35.2	trees. I've lined up on the meg got a solid tone. Squeeze the trigger. The side winder comes back
0:40.8	in and right at the last minute. It kind of turns left, goes right up the tail peg. Big boom.
0:46.0	Two pieces of Meg 21 come out of the front and slam right into the ground.
0:58.1	Hello and welcome to the Fighter Pilot Podcast. I am your host Vincent Iolo Carl Sangello,
1:14.8	and joining me today in the Circle Air Group Studios here at Gillespie Field in San Diego, California
1:19.3	is Mr. Kurt Dosey. Dosey, as he's known, is credited with an air-to-air victory over a MiG 21
1:25.2	in Vietnam. He's part of the only father-son duo to each be credited with air-to-air victories.
1:29.8	He was a Top Gun graduate, an early test pilot of the F-14 Tomcat, and so much more as we'll uncover
1:35.6	here, I hope, in the next hour or so. Dosey, welcome to the show. Thank you. Glad to be here.
1:40.2	So glad to have you, and I really look forward to unpacking all this, like I said, because
1:44.0	you've got some pretty amazing experiences. It's been quite a career in a historic time,
1:50.0	so I think I think I got lucky. Okay, well, I hear that a lot on this show, so I'm all
1:55.1	that you have one of those, but not too many. Well, let's start with who is Robert Dosey?
2:00.0	Robert Dosey was my father. This is a very distinguished dad. He won World War II,
2:06.3	I won Vietnam, it's the way my grandkids put it, but he started off in biplane torpedo airplanes
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