Fighter Pilot Podcast

Former US Air Force F-15E Strike Eagle WSO Mike "Pako" Benitez describes how future fighter pilots will train alongside—and go to war with—unmanned collaborative combat aircraft, sometimes also known ...

11 Mar 20241h 10min

Guest host Ken 'Primetime' Katz returns with his first foray into warbirds, exploring the venerable Douglas C-47 Skytrain (plus its many derivatives) and the role it played in the pivotal D-Day invasi...

4 Mar 20241h 36min

Retired US Marine Corps Colonel Jim "Boone" Jamison describes being an HMX-1 Presidential Command Pilot during the Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush presidencies. Learn more about your ad choices. V...

26 Feb 20241h 31min

'On Future War' is a 12-part series exploring the evolving landscape of military strategy and defense technologies with a focus on the Pacific. On this inaugural episode, Mike "Pako" Benitez and Scott...

19 Feb 20241h 39min

Planning, briefing, executing per standard operating procedures (SOPs) while using checklists, and then debriefing--these are some of the best practices military aviators routinely employ to ensure sa...

12 Feb 20241h 48min

Art Palmer is a child of the dust bowl and self-admitted "hobo" who joined the U.S. Army Air Corps and piloted B-24 Liberators during World War II. Art's plane was shot down on his 50th mission and he...

5 Feb 20241h 27min

Imagine flying along at night, in combat, so low that you look up to see car headlights. And that's just the beginning. On this episode, former US Air Force pilot Jeff "Guinnbob" Guinn and navigator ...

29 Jan 20242h 6min

"Do you have to be good at math to be a fighter pilot?" On this episode, the host Vincent Aiello shares a September 2020 blog addressing this question, providing examples of the common math concepts f...

22 Jan 202411min