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Back to SearchFPP125 - Blackburn Buccaneer
Episode 125
According to Ernest Hemmingway, a man has only one virginity to lose in fighters, and if it is a lovely plane he loses it to, there his heart will ev…
4 years, 4 months ago
FPP124 - 21st Century Light Attack
Episode 124
The F-35 Lightning II, a trillion-dollar, highly capable 5th generation fighter, has been described by the U.S. Air Force Chief of Staff as a Ferrari…
4 years, 4 months ago
FPP123 - Hawker Hurricane
Episode 123
In 1933, English aircraft designer Sydney Camm proposed a radical design for the future of British fighter aviation: a monoplane. Two-and-a-half year…
4 years, 4 months ago
FPP122 - CH-53 Super Stallion
Episode 122
In 1962 the U.S. Marine Corps issued a request for a heavy lift, ship-based helicopter capable of lifting a 4-ton payload over a radius of 100 nautic…
4 years, 5 months ago
FPP121 - What's Up With The F-35?
Episode 121
Inside America’s Dysfunctional Trillion-Dollar Fighter-Jet Program (NY Times). The U.S. Air Force Just Admitted the F-35 Stealth Fighter Has Failed (…
4 years, 5 months ago
FPP120 - The Commemorative Air Force
Episode 120
Have you ever wondered what it takes to keep a 70+ year-old aircraft in the air, who funds its maintenance, or how you could be involved to help keep…
4 years, 5 months ago
Airborne on 9/11: Defending Cheyenne Mountain
This time last year we heard from Martin "Opus" Richard who was airborne in an F-15 Eagle over Manhattan during the terrorist attacks on 9/11/01.
This…
4 years, 6 months ago
FPP119 - AH-1 Cobra
Episode 119
The Marines—God bless 'em—have a reputation for making do with whatever equipment, weapons, and tasking that comes their way and, to their credit, us…
4 years, 6 months ago
FPP118 - A-3 Skywarrior
Episode 118
Hornet, Eagle, Viper, Tomcat, Tiger, Raptor, Warthog, Moose... we've covered many colorfully-named aircraft here on the show and this week is no diff…
4 years, 7 months ago
FPP117 - C-17 Globemaster III
Episode 117
Not every aircraft can be (or should be) an attention-grabbing 9G fighter or Mach 3 spy plane. Scores of unheralded support planes play vital militar…
4 years, 8 months ago