Hypersonics

Fighter Pilot Podcast

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

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🗓️ 3 April 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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A discussion on the challenges of designing and flying aerial vehicles intended to travel at five times the speed of sound or more, and how the U.S. military is doing compared to other nations exploring hypersonic aircraft and weapons. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-fighter-pilot-podcast/donations

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0:00.0	Think about the space shuttle. It used to be thought that if I want to go faster and faster
0:04.7	I need a longer and more pointed pose. We got to go back to a rounded nose because if I do
0:09.6	in that we move the shockway off of the body what we're concerned about is melting the vehicle.
0:30.0	Hello and welcome to the Fighter Pilot Podcast. I'm Vincent Iolo and this week we have a conversation
0:40.6	on hypersonics and how garden hoses and car traffic can be used to explain some of the key concepts.
0:46.8	Now it's with Mr. Danny Millman who is a PhD and it's hosted by Ken Katz former US Air Force
0:53.1	flight test engineer. Take it away a prank time. Probably 99% of the listeners of this episode
0:59.5	have seen the movie Top Gun Maverick and the scene with the hypersonic dark star aircraft.
1:05.0	In reality hypersonic flight is not just for the movies. At present is an area of intense
1:09.8	research and development to help us understand hypersonics were joined by one of the nation's
1:14.4	leading experts on hypersonic flight. Dr. Daniel Millman call side doc. Welcome Dr. Millman.
1:20.8	Hi I'm happy to be here Ken. We'd like to start our podcast by introducing the guest
1:25.7	or I guess more accurately having the guests introduce themselves so please tell us about your
1:30.4	background both academic and military and what you're doing today. Well I'll tell you there
1:36.0	there are moments in our life Ken that tell us where we want to go and I had one of those moments
1:41.7	when I was growing up in San Antonio near Kelly and Lacklin Air Force Base. I used to see C-5s
1:47.5	flying near the house all the time but when a 747 flew over my house with a space shuttle attached
1:54.4	to the top of it I knew at that moment I wanted to be an aerospace engineer but like all good
2:00.6	journeys there was not a straight line path to where I thought I wanted to go right. I went to
2:06.4	Rice University they don't have an aerospace engineering degree at Rice so I majored in mechanical
2:13.2	but I did concentrate on the aerospace subjects and then I got an opportunity to do a program called
2:19.8	the Joint Institute for Advancement of Flight Sciences. It was a program between the George
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