TOPGUN: 50 Years of Excellence with Brad Elward
Fighter Pilot Podcast
Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot
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🗓️ 11 March 2021
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, Vincent Ayello here, founder and host of the Fighter Pilot Podcast. |
| 0:08.3 | Now, as you know, once in a while, I like to share with you different things, including |
| 0:12.0 | great books. |
| 0:13.0 | Well, I found one recently. |
| 0:14.6 | It's called Top Gun, the Navy Fighter Weapon School's 50 Years of Excellence. |
| 0:19.5 | It's written by a gentleman who is a professor, he's a retired appellate attorney. |
| 0:24.0 | He's also the author of many other great books, including S3 Viking Inaction, as well as |
| 0:29.0 | the authoritative FA-18 support and growler book. |
| 0:33.5 | His name is Brad Howard, and he joins us today via Zoom, how you doing, Brad? |
| 0:37.2 | I'm doing great. |
| 0:38.2 | How are you doing? |
| 0:39.2 | I'm doing fine, thanks. |
| 0:40.2 | It's good to have you on the show, and I really love this book, tell me the inspiration |
| 0:44.4 | for it. |
| 0:45.4 | Oh, thanks. |
| 0:47.2 | This is a small version of the larger Top Gun book that I had been working on for a period |
| 0:52.2 | of time. |
| 0:53.4 | My intention was to have a couple books available when the Top Gun Maverick movie came out, and |
| 0:59.7 | I thought that a lot of the moviegoers would find the large volume a little bit too deep |
| 1:05.4 | and historic for their needs, so what I did is I came up with a smaller version that gives |
| 1:10.6 | a whole view of the 50 years of the school in a very condensed format, and then has kind |
| 1:15.2 | of a photo history to show some of the aircraft and some of the things that happened over |
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