FPP176 - RF-4 Photo Phantoms with "Racehorse"

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

🗓️ 25 September 2023

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

On this repurposed 2021 'Happy Hour' discussion, retired U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel Larry "Racehorse" Rannals describes his career beginning as a Naval Flight Officer before converting to pilot via Air Force flight training and flying the RF-4 in Vietnam--in both seats!

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0:57.8	Hey hello everyone and welcome to the Fighter Pilot podcast. This is episode 176. We'll be
1:23.6	talking about RF4 Photo Phantoms and it's a repurposed happy hour that we'll get to in just a little bit.
1:30.1	But before we do, I am your host Vincent Iolo Carl Sangello and I just have a couple quick
1:35.1	announcements and some listener questions to cover because it's been a little while so just want
1:39.6	to check in. Make sure everybody's doing well. It's getting towards the end of September here and
1:44.4	man I have had a pretty fun month frankly. I attended Tailhook at the end of August. Usually it's
1:51.0	in September but this year they moved it to the end of August and then a couple weeks after that I
1:55.3	went to the Reno Air Races and at both I met many enthusiastic listeners of the show. So to all of you
2:01.4	who stopped me at either hook or the Reno Air Races thank you so much. I always enjoy hearing from you
2:07.5	and I tell you to everybody else I'm just blown away at the reach of this show. I had admirals
2:11.5	telling me they listened one a three star who listens on his commute evidently so bullet thank
2:17.1	you very much for mentioning that I am honored but yeah just to everybody else who stopped me and
2:21.7	appreciate the show thank you. It is a hard labor of love but just knowing that it brings value to
2:27.3	people is definitely worth it. Now a couple other announcements let's see this one's a little bit older
2:33.0	but I don't think I mentioned it last time. For those of you who have been on some of our Facebook
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