FPP175 - MiG Killer Reconciles with Former Enemy
Robert Dosé was a World War II fighter pilot who shot down an Imperial Japanese Zero. Thirty years later, his son Curt Dosé scored an aerial victory against a North Vietnamese MiG-21, making them the ...
11 Sep 20231h 33min
FPP174 - Green Phantoms, Pink Jags, and the Shah of Iran with "Ed"
Nelson "Ed" Cobleigh is a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot and Vietnam veteran-turned author who flew the A-4 Skyhawk, F-4 Phantom, Jaguar, F-104 Starfighter, and F-16 Fighting Falcon, among others...
21 Aug 202350min
FPP173 - Fighter Pilot Legacy with "Guido"
Retired US Navy Captain Jim "Guido" Dimatteo is a polymath: the son of a WW2 fighter pilot, a former A-4, F-14, F-16N, F/A-18 pilot (and still the F-5), the former purveyor of a successful San Diego b...
7 Aug 20232h 33min
Fly Girls Revolt: The Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat
FPP friend and occasional cohost, Ken Katz, welcomes back to the show Dr. Eileen Bjorkman to discuss her new book, Fly Girls Revolt: The Story of the Women Who Kicked Open the Door to Fly in Combat. S...
31 Jul 202351min
FPP172 - Rogers E. Smith: The Test Pilot Who Flew Everything
Rogers E. Smith is a Canadian-American pilot who served in the RCAF, U.S. Marines, and U.S. Air National Guard and spent a long career testing nearly every American fighter (and several Russian ones),...
24 Jul 20231h 55min
FPP171 - The Flying Leathernecks Return to Irvine
Retired U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General Mike Aguilar explains how the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum is moving from MCAS Miramar in San Diego to the Great Park in Irvine, near the former MCAS ...
10 Jul 202337min
FPP170 - Italian Tornados in the Storm with "Puffo"
Retired Italian Air Force General and former Tornado pilot Gianmarco Bellini joins guest host Craig "Crunch" Snyder to discuss his terrifying low-altitude, high-speed ejection in the opening hours of ...
26 Jun 20231h 11min
FPP169 - Helo's to Hornets to Headlines with "Chopper"
Retired US Navy Captain Brett "Chopper" Crozier describes his career from flying SH-60B Seahawks, to returning to flight school to learn the F/A-18 Hornet, to nuclear power school and eventually comma...
13 Jun 20232h 27min
