43: "Women aren't in combat but they're being killed": Women in Military Aviation - Eileen Bjorkman
This year (2023) is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of the first American women combat fighter pilots. How did the U.S. go from women not being allowed in military airplanes to having women c...
1 Des 202335min
42: "They weren't told they were being recruited for space," Cathy Lewis on Soviet Cosmonauts
The American spaceflight program is a popular, inspirational story that many of us are familiar with, but what about the Soviet Union's space program? To explore it, we're joined by Dr. Cathleen Lewis...
1 Okt 202339min
41: "The airplane just blew up into several pieces!" - Lee Ellis on the Romance Stories of POWs
Former F-4 Phantom pilot Lee Ellis was a prisoner of war in the "Hanoi Hilton" in Vietnam for over five years. But in the time since, he noticed that he and many other POWs had gone on to experience d...
1 Sep 202332min
40: "Check Six": Historian Questions and Answers
For this episode, Mike and Brian have each come up with questions to ask each other about what it's like to be a historian, and pick on some of their favorite topics about aviation history.
1 Aug 202331min
39: "My Airplane is Plunging to the Ground!" - Colonel Kim Campbell
Colonel Kim 'Killer Chick' Campbell was an A-10 Thunderbolt II 'Warthog' pilot with over 100 combat missions. On one of her early missions, her plane was heavily damaged by ground fire. She tells us t...
30 Jun 202332min
38: "This Cannot Go On": The "Race Riot" on the USS Kitty Hawk - Marv Truhe
In 1972, the USS Kitty Hawk was in the middle of conducting bombing raids against North Vietnam, when violence broke out on the ship itself. Long-building racial tensions exploded into a series of ass...
31 Mai 202329min
37: "Your grandfather was a spy!" - The USAF Security Service - Philip Shackelford
Amidst the news of classified intelligence leaks, it's a great time to look back at the US Air Force Security Service - the USAF's own intelligence agency that gathered critical intelligence throughou...
30 Apr 202331min
36: Tal Tovy: Origins of the F-14 Tomcat and F-15 Eagle
This episode is all about the F-14 and F-15 fighters, two very popular and historically significant airplanes. We're joined by Tal Tovy, senior lecturer at Bar-Ilan University in Israel, and author of...
31 Mar 202329min
