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Back to SearchFPP043 - F-5 Freedom Fighter / Tiger ll
Episode 43
Everyone recognizes the F-14 as the star of the 1986 hit movie Top Gun, but few can readily identify the Western fighter that acted as the Tomcat’s n…
6 years, 11 months ago
FPP042 - F-14 Tomcat
Episode 42
Of all the fighter planes to ever take to the sky, perhaps none is more recognized, or more revered, than the venerable Grumman F-14 Tomcat. Made pop…
7 years ago
FPP041 - Dassault Rafale
Episode 41
The SEPECAT Jaguar, Vought F-8 Crusader, Mirage F-1, Mirage 2000, Dassault Étendard, and later the Super Étendard were all remarkable aircraft design…
7 years ago
FPP040 - H-60 (Black / Sea) Hawk
Episode 40
Few Western aerospace design and manufacturing firms can boast an aircraft so successful that it is flown by every branch of the U.S. military, plus …
7 years ago
FPP039 - A-7 Corsair ll
Episode 39
In the early 1960’s, the U.S. Navy began a program for a carrier-based attack aircraft to replace the A-4 Skyhawk. Two requirements were specified to…
7 years, 1 month ago
FPP038 - S-3 Viking
Episode 38
At the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union fielded a formidable navy—both above and below the surface. In response, the United States Navy requi…
7 years, 1 month ago
FPP037 - F/A-18 (Super) Hornet
Episode 37
What was it designed to do? What does it do well? What ordnance does it carry? Why does it look the way it does…?
…These are a few of the questions re…
7 years, 1 month ago
FPP036 - 4th vs 5th Gen Fighters
Episode 36
Just as humans are broadly generalized as Baby Boomers, Millennials, etc., so too are fighter aircraft lumped into categories—only it has less to do …
7 years, 2 months ago
FPP035 - UFOs
Episode 35
Convinced we’re alone in the universe? Think everyone who believes in UFOs is a lot like Randy Quaid’s character, Russel, in 20th Century Fox’s origi…
7 years, 2 months ago
End of Year Recap - 2018
Join Vincent and special guest Rob Kibbe, host of The Musclecar Place, for an intimate look back at the Fighter Pilot Podcast’s first year and what’s…
7 years, 2 months ago