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10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit

By: Steve Davies
  • Summary

  • Interviews and anecdotes from military pilots and aircrew from across the globe. As the rule says, so long as it's 10 percent true, you're allowed to tell the story! Head over to the 10 Percent True YouTube channel to listen and watch at the same time.

    © 2024 10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit
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Episodes
  • Dave Berke talks F-35B Lightning II
    Apr 5 2024

    Dave Berke, the only Marine Corps pilot to fly the F-22 and F-35, discusses 5th generation fighter technology and the F-35B.

    Thanks to Authentic Media (www.authenticmedia.io) for allowing me to post this on my channel.

    50 second plug for Red Eagles

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Teaching the Next Generation of Fighter Pilots. Jim Jimenez [Part 3]
    Jan 25 2024

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    1 hr and 33 mins
  • Air Force Test Pilot - Jim Jimenez
    Jan 20 2024

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    0:00 Intro and welcome back Jim
    0:55 “Coming down” after the Libya raid
    3:30 Raiders set apart and psychology?
    7:10 Avoiding inflation of ego
    9:20 Test pilot school - ambition/aspiration/evaluation
    15:20 Weapons school not a priority 
    16:55 Evaluation flights and data points 
    20:20 Variations in sample data
    25:10 School 
    28:05 Balance of classroom/flying and type variation and contemporaries 
    39:05 Did it feel safe?
    42:10 Is there a type of person that excels as a test pilot
    44:30 System testing? No thanks, I want to go back
    48:10 Strike Eagle
    55:50 Commercial break
    56:44 Testing on the 111 and AMRAAM
    1:03:50 The B-1 and shooting at it!
    1:10:08 Have Nap AGM-142
    1:11:40 Weapons separation?
    1:15:15 Did weapon testing ease the “pain” of not being on frontline / Desert Storm begins
    1:19:20 Planning for a brand new fighter (F-15E) with new crews and little operational capability
    1:24:40 ACE - airborne command element 
    1:25:50 Back to Elgin and then “somewhere else” with a polygraph required
    1:30:25 En exclusive bar in an undisclosed location
    1:34:42 Will this work ever be declassified? 
    1:36:00 Close calls and reflection? 
    1:41:40 A promise to return and reflect on Air Force Training Command

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    1 hr and 44 mins

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