Rebroadcast: the F-117 Nighthawk
Fighter Pilot Podcast
Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot
4.9 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 November 2024
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
For Thanksgiving week here in the U.S., we are pausing our usual schedule and instead rebroadcasting a listener favorite: the episode 072 interview from February 2020 about the Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk with Robert "Robson" Donaldson.
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| 0:00.0 | The fighter pilot podcast is sponsored by L3 Harris throughout the month of November as we honor |
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| 0:32.9 | Hello and welcome to the fighter pilot podcast, the internet show that explores the fascinating world of air combat, the aircraft, the weapon systems, and most importantly, the people. |
| 0:41.9 | I am your host, Vincent Aiello, and as you regular listeners know, we typically release a new |
| 0:47.1 | episode every Monday, at least we have been throughout this year, 2004. |
| 0:51.7 | Well, this being Thanksgiving week, I have decided to take a little break. |
| 0:55.3 | And instead, we are going to re-release one of your favorite episodes, at least according to |
| 1:00.6 | a survey we did before our episode 100 celebration. It is episode 72 on the F-117 Nighthawk. |
| 1:09.0 | It features Major Robert Donaldson. He's retired from the Michigan Air National |
| 1:13.4 | Guard. He talks about his F-117 experiences. And since this is a rerun, we're just going to the |
| 1:18.9 | interview. We're not going to do all the before and after talk that we did way back when this |
| 1:22.7 | first aired in February 2020, just before COVID. Remember that? Good old days. |
| 1:28.0 | Yeah, anyway. |
| 1:29.0 | We'll have a listen to this one again. |
| 1:31.2 | It is a favorite of most of you listeners, |
| 1:33.3 | and we will be back next week with a brand new episode as usual. |
| 1:36.9 | So enjoy this. |
| 1:37.9 | Happy Thanksgiving, |
| 1:38.8 | and we'll see you next time here on the Fighter Pilot podcast. |
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