The Hangardeck Podcast

In this episode of The Hangardeck Podcast, "Pitchlock" Pete, Fast Eddie and Raging Rick talk with Vietnam veteran Buzz Lockwood. Lockwood is a decorated helicopter pilot. During his 2 ½ tours in Vietnam Lockwood received 3 purple hearts among other medals honoring his bravery during service. Lockwood faced many hardships during his service, including being shot down a total of 13 times. Regarding his medals Lockwood was extremely humble stating, "There were tens of thousands of acts of valor, bravery, and courage done by Americans every day during the war – only a few people got recognized, most acts went unrewarded." He added that he would gladly return all three of his purple hearts, in turn for not having to endure what he did to get them, stating the hearts were basically rewarding any near death experience. Lockwood graduated from Fort Rutgers Alabama flight school, and three months later he was in Vietnam. He flew a light observation helicopter, nicknamed a Loach by the military men. The loach helicopters took part in "Hunt and Kill" team, described less harshly by media as "Pink Teams" for the red and white pendants the aircrafts had. The Pink Teams were made up of three aircrafts – two gunships, and one scout. Lockwood flew scout, his job was to fly extremely low to the ground and locate the enemy for the gunships in his team. Lockwood was one of the brave men who volunteered to be in the war, he was not drafted. Also he volunteered to fly scout, which was a very dangerous job. Regardless of his voluntary service Lockwood expressed, "Not wanted to fight in a war, not wanting to be in a shooting match, or to kill someone – There isn't anything unpatriotic about that.' Lockwood shared much of his Vietnam experience with The Hangardeck Podcast, stating that he feels dealing with such an experience is much easier if he can talk about it.

In this episode, Pitchlock Pete and Fast Eddie are on location for the 2016 Culpeper Air Fest. The guys set up location and interviewed many performers and event coordinators at the Air Fest. In this interview, the guys talk with Pilot Kevin Russo who performs around the country at airshows in his T-6 Texan. Kevin is in his 18th year flying air shows with his SNJ-6/T-6 aircraft. His aircraft is a restored SNJ-6 the aircraft was built in 1944 and delivered to Pensacola NAS FL in August 1945. Kevin purchased the aircraft 21 years ago and restored it back to the Pensacola colors you see today. Kevin's SNJ-6 is thought to be the lowest time Texan around with only 3,000 hours.

In this on site segment, Pitchlock Pete joins SNJ-6 Charlie Flight Element and chats about the low ceiling level with "Pappy", "Hollywood", "Jackie", "Cooler", and "Will". Also, a briefly chatting with Chuck from The Flying Circus.

In this Episode Segment, Uncut and Raw with WWII B-24 Pilot Easly Smith. A MUST Listen and pay respect to our Veterans of this great nation. This man is a HERO and we are happy to bring this short segment of his background.

In this episode, The Hangardeck Podcast interviews the Fighter Factory Maintenance Leadership team. Standby and Hold On as TK and the boys tell us how it is with Warbird Maintenance.

In this Video Podcast episode, Pitchlock Pete and Whitey are on location for an interview with former F-14 Skipper and Topgun Instructor Dave "Bio" Baranek. He is an accomplished author of his first hand accounts in the US Navy and the books are Topgun Days and Before TopGun Days respectively. Check out Bio at http://www.topgunbio.com/ You can find his books on Amazon.com.

In this episode, The Hangardeck Podcast Interviews Aircraft Artist and Painter Shayne Meder - www.flygirpainters.com and then we discuss the preliminary news release from the Southwest Engine Failure.

In this episode, Pitchlock Pete and Jackscrew Jesse give unedited views of the most recent Samsung Galaxy 7 Lithium Battery issue regarding aviation and also talk about US Military Air to Air Intercepts with Fighter Jets.

In this Episode of the Hangardeck Podcast, the team has the privilege to interview aviation and aerospace expert pilot Wolfgang Czaia. Wolfgang discusses the first production jet fighter, the ME-262, and the history, flying characteristics and how many reproduction aircraft are flying today. It's an amazing discussion that we guarantee to satisfy your itch for unique aviation discussions. We have been working on this episode and are very proud to bring our audience this special interview with Wolfgang. Wolfgang flies the aircraft once a year at the Military Aviation Museum – "Warbirds over the Beach" so if you are an aviation enthusiast, you MUST see this first hand. The Hangardeck Podcast would like to thank our audience for the continued support on our venture. We reached a milestone of over 12,000 downloads and continue to grow our audience. The Hangardeck Podcast Team continues to strive and bring great interviews for the aviation enthusiast. Tell us how we are doing by dropping Pitchlock Pete a direct comment at [email protected].

In this Episode of The Hangardeck Podcast, we have the privilege of talking with WWII Luftwaffe pilot Hans Meyer. Hans Meyer was born in 1927 and grew up in Brandenburg, Germany. Ever since his youth he was interested in aviation, so at the age of 14, Hans joined the Flieger-HJ and learned to fly the Schneider SG-38 (Flying Glider). When he was 16, he earned himself the Glider Pilot Proficiency Badge 'C' level and signed up for the Luftwaffe a year later in 1944 to become a fighter pilot. After Hans completed his flight training in Werneuchen with the Messerschmitt Bf 109, he was transferred to Jagdgeschwader 54 "Grünherz" and was stationed on the Eastern Front. There he distinguished himself as a fighter pilot and was credited with a total of 5 air victories. Tune into more great Episodes of The Hangardeck Podcast.