Lessons From The Cockpit

Welcome to another episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit show!

On today's show, our guest Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Mo Barrett fights for centerline deciding to fly a very big airlifter or deploy with her Tanker Airlift Control Element (TALCE) team opening airfields for war in Afghanistan on 9/11. Her team makes two large Forward Operation Bases livable and operable with hours and had a unique way of evolving a place to go potty. Something simple every pilot carries on them becomes a tool for democracy and brings a smile to kids' faces as Mo flies the big C-5 Galaxy cargo plane. Women have been flying in our Air Force for decades, but an Ecuadorian Mayor never got that memo.

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George Nolly gives us great lessons from logging time in O-2 Skymasters as a Forward Air Controller, and fighter pilot in the F-4D/E Phantoms over Vietnam. George even spent exactly one year in the big B-52! George flew with and now instructs for one of the major US airlines in the 737, and 777s with an Indian airline. He tells us there is no such thing as useless information and relates his most important lesson from a combat mission over North Vietnam, a great lesson on leadership, fuel is flying's hourglass, and giving control to your best shooters in battle. George shares the audio from WALNUT Flight looking for a tanker near Haiphong!

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Pete Fleischmann flew F-16 Vipers in the Air Force and currently is an A320 Captain for one of the major US airlines. He also trains pilots how to avoid the leading cause of fatal aircraft accidents worldwide in a very unique classroom. On today's show, he tells us where good judgment really comes from, an essential management tool whenever and where ever an airplane leaves the ground, and the importance of basic stick and rudder skills and their role in the loss of controlled flight. Pete also shares some of his planning factors when establishing a No-Fly/No Drive zone over or near a hostile country, something we hear a lot about in the news right now.

If you want to check off flying a fighter jet on your bucket list or learn how to recover an aircraft after the loss of controlled flight, visit Pete's Acrojet website.

Here is the two-seat F-16 which then Lt Col Gary North shot down an Iraqi Air Force MiG-25 Foxbat over the Iraq No-Fly Zone Pete talked about in the episode.

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Welcome to episode fifteen of the Lessons From the Cockpit Show! In 1948 Douglas Aviation ran full-page ads of their C-54, a little girl catching glasses of milk dropped from the Skymaster aircraft. The Skymaster was making history during the Berlin Airlift. An aviation Rockstar was born during the airlift, flying a C-54 and dropping candy to German kids gathered along the fences of Tempelhof Airfield. 1Lt Gail Halvorsen became known as "Onkel Wackelflugel" or Uncle Wiggle Wings to the German kids but forever known as the "Candy Bomber" in aviation history. I attended Colonel Halvorsen's funeral last week after his passing at the age of 101.

The link to Colonel Halvorsen's great webpage with great Berlin Airlift information is here.

The link to a great article on The Candy Bomber at St Mary's Research Scholars can be found here.

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This is the 1948 Douglas Aviation advertisement based on the Berlin Airlift:

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I had a conversation recently with a Commander I highly respect, for both his leadership skills and impeccable insights on the battlefield and in business. He and I were involved in numerous exercises with other US military services, our international partners, and the extremes of intense air campaigns over foreign nations. This episode captures four of the lessons learned on the battlefield and their application in the business world. Those four lessons are culture, language, requirements, and education.

This episode is sponsored by the book Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit, found in all four formats on Amazon.

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While teaching at the Joint Forces Staff College many of my students asked what books they should have in their libraries. I developed a list of books on joint warfare, decision-making on the battlefield, and leaders who really left an impact on their organizations. This episode of Lessons from the Cockpit discusses some of the books in my TOP TEN BOOKS category.

Here are the Amazon links to those books:

100 Days

Hog Pilots and Blue Water Grunts

Hunter Killer

Blind Man's Bluff

Deep Black

The Men, The Mission, and Me

Thud Ridge

Going Downtown

Fighter Pilot

The First and the Last

Midway: The Battle that Doomed Japan

Sources of Power

Blink

Thunder Run

Tanker Pilot

Link to The Intercept and The Drone Papers articles:

The Drone Papers

Link to Rick Tollini interview on Intuitive Expertise:

Rick Tollini and Killing MiG-25s

Link to the videos of Third Infantry Division and 1-64th Armored Division Thunder Run into Baghdad:

Thunder Run from the Turret

Third ID and the Thunder Runs

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In this episode, we discuss red underwear, one of the greatest victories and defeats in modern air warfare, and how a Commander's Conference kept this Navy Captain from being incinerated. Our hero in this episode is Imperial Japanese Navy Captain Mitsuo Fuchida.

Commander Mitsuo Fuchida was an expert tactician and planner, leading many Japanese Navy attacks throughout the Pacific. Flying as an observer in a Nakajima B5N2 Kate attack plane, Commander Fuchida directed the attack of Pearl Harbor. He was almost killed during the battle of Midway and Colonel Paul Tibbets's atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. A chance meeting on a Tokyo street corner leads to Captain Fuchida's conversion to Christianity, his mentor being a former enemy and part of the first US attack on the Japanese homeland, the Doolittle Raid.

A link to why Japan attacked the US:

https://youtu.be/so4v_2zq35k

Link to a good overview of the Pearl Harbor raid: https://youtu.be/f6cz9gtMTeI

Three-part documentary on the Japanese attack on Midway:

Part One: https://youtu.be/Bd8_vO5zrjo

Part Two: https://youtu.be/BXjydKPcX60

Part Three: https://youtu.be/WHO6xrSF7Sw

Commander Fuchida's detailed debriefing map of the Pearl Harbor attack: https://i.redd.it/yrrd3gujhm621.jpg

Mitsuo Fuchida's appearance on the Merv Griffin Show in September 1965, at the 35:40 mark:

https://tubitv.com/tv-shows/501213/s01-e01-episode-1

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Welcome to the eleventh episode of Lessons from the Cockpit! Thirty-one years ago early this morning my crew took off and flew our first combat mission on the opening night of Desert Storm. We refueled the first F-4G Wild Weasel and EF-111A Spark Vark package going to Baghdad to take down the integrated air defense system. This mission was intense! I kept a journal of every event and flight during my deployment 31 years ago. There are a lot of lessons learned not only from flying but being involved in the planning of tanker missions for the largest air refueling wing assembled in US Air Force history... 90 planes on the ramp!

All of us had to prepare our minds for where our bodies were going to take us that night and through the rest of the war. In a nanosecond, I can bring to my mind scenes from some of the missions I flew during months my crew was there: fighter jets on my wing, early warning planes telling us Iraqi MiGs are airborne, and calling out a SCUD ballistic missile launch.

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EF-111A Spark Vark jamming airplane callsign DRILL 71 can be found here:

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An F-15C Eagle from the 58th TFS like those we refueled in TANGERINE anchor can be found here:

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Welcome to the Lessons from the Cockpit podcast! Into whose hands would you place trust and risk your life? Military service members deal with this question every day. There is one community of US Air Force aircraft aircrew members all over the world trust with their lives to. Why? Crews flying these two jets have the reputation of ALWAYS being at the right place and right time, but more importantly where they need to go when things go bad. They have saved countless lives and millions of dollars of equipment during wartime. On two occasions fighter pilots accepted a greater amount of risk during complex missions because they trusted the reputation of a community flying a 60-year-old jet and its crews. The same is true for this old jet's younger Big Sister. This episode is sponsored by the book Tanker Pilot: Lessons from the Cockpit found on Amazon in all four formats.

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On this episode of Lessons from the Cockpit; Airplane designers analyze three elements for creating an airplane: Range, Payload, and Endurance. All three of these elements are affected by the aircraft engine. Two world-famous engines almost didn't make it into their iconic airframes. There were numerous obstacles business and engineering leaders overcame. One engine was within two weeks of cancellation. But companies took the high-risk road and it paid off in billions of dollars. Both of these engines changed the way the two planes operated, stretching the range, increasing the payload, and lengthening the endurance of these two famous planes.

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