Chaz joins Fig & Repete to tell of his adventures as the child of a Pennsylvania Railroad engineer; learning to fly and making life decisions based on recruitment posters!

Now retired from the majors, Chaz is a font of aviation lore. We spent a little less than two hours together and realized we were only about half-way through, at best. This interview is split into two shows - the first half begins here.

Luke Joins hosts Fig & Repete to talk about his journey from the midwest to the Naval Academy. He tells how he became a Marine heavy helicopter pilot and Harrier pilot. He recounts a couple of brushes with disaster and how he avoided jumping out of a Harrier right before leaving active duty. There is a saying in aviation: It's better to be lucky than good. But when your luck runs out, you'd better be good! Luke was both!

Sinbad joins hosts Fig & Repete to recount flying low and fast; terrorizing livestock and breaking glass. But it was a good enough show to get him a 'free pass' from the local highway patrol 35 years later! Going 'green' on a maintenance check flight gets a new meaning!

Join Fig & Repete as they welcome "Auto" for more fun aviation stories. The real story behind Auto's callsign. There's a saying in aviation about landing gear up: There are those who have and those who will. In this episode there's a story about one who . . . did.

Join hosts Fig & Repete as they welcome Sleeper to expound on his callsign and some of the other antics. More naked stories crop up. You can't make this stuff up!

So there I was... It's how every great aviation tale begins. Join Fig and Repete - two former Harrier pilots as they kick off the show that will tell funny, harrowing, tragic and incredible stories in aviation. This first episode is more of a 'get to know us' show and was done to iron out some kinks in the process of getting underway. It is posted in its entirety, warts and all. We talk about how we met; some great and not-so-great callsigns (this topic went south fast!), the upcoming release of Top Gun Maverick and how we're privileged to be aviators who have been blessed to be flying this long. Future shows will include professional aviators who have seen and done amazing things. Welcome aboard. Buckle up and enjoy the ride.

Lawman describes how no good deed goes unpunished his first time flying a Blue Angel jet!