Hello everyone, Vincent Ayello here, founder and host of the Fighter Pilot Podcast.

Now, as you know, once in a while, I like to share with you different things, including

great books.

Well, I found one recently.

It's called Top Gun, the Navy Fighter Weapon School's 50 Years of Excellence.

It's written by a gentleman who is a professor, he's a retired appellate attorney.

He's also the author of many other great books, including S3 Viking Inaction, as well as

the authoritative FA-18 support and growler book.

His name is Brad Howard, and he joins us today via Zoom, how you doing, Brad?

I'm doing great.

How are you doing?

I'm doing fine, thanks.

It's good to have you on the show, and I really love this book, tell me the inspiration

for it.

Oh, thanks.

This is a small version of the larger Top Gun book that I had been working on for a period

of time.

My intention was to have a couple books available when the Top Gun Maverick movie came out, and

I thought that a lot of the moviegoers would find the large volume a little bit too deep

and historic for their needs, so what I did is I came up with a smaller version that gives

a whole view of the 50 years of the school in a very condensed format, and then has kind

of a photo history to show some of the aircraft and some of the things that happened over

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