The Old Fly Guy Network
by The Old Fly Guy
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Desert Storm's First Night: Inside the F-111F Cockpit
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About this podcast
Our mission is to provide a platform to engage with leaders in the general aviation marketplace. Exploring the background of these leaders and how their journey in general aviation began. Discover what drives these aviators to share their knowledge. Learn what these aviators see for the future in aviation. Discuss the lighter side of aviation and be inspired to take to the skies to follow our dream of flying.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 45 episodes
- Desert Storm's First Night: Inside the F-111F Cockpit · 47 min · Season 1 Episode 35DESERT STORM: THE FIRST NIGHT | F-111F AARDVARK CREW STORIES What was it like to fly the legendary F-111F Aardvark during Operation Desert Storm? What did America's aircrews face…
- YetiFlight vs. ForeFlight: Would You Make the Switch? · 54 min · Season 1 Episode 36Check out the Yetiflight App https://www.redyetiaviation.com/ Free Pilot Training's Josh Campbell is back on the Old Fly Guy Network — and this time he's bringing something new…
- The SR-71's Secret Weapon Wasn't Its Speed · 1 h 5 min · Season 1 Episode 34SR-71 BLACKBIRD: THE UNSUNG HEROES WHO KEPT MACH 3 FLYING Everyone knows the SR-71 Blackbird for its incredible speed, extreme altitude, and legendary Cold War reconnaissance…
- SR-71 Record Setter Noel Whitfield: The Story Behind the Records · 40 min · Season 1 Episode 33Growing Up With an SR-71 Dad | Noel & David Whitfield's Untold Family Story What was it like growing up with a father who flew the legendary SR-71 Blackbird, one of the fastest…
- SR-71 MAYDAY ?- The Swedish Fighters That Saved Them · 30 min · Season 1 Episode 32SR-71 in Trouble: When Sweden Came to the Rescue On June 29, 1987, at the height of the Cold War, an SR-71 Blackbird flying a reconnaissance mission over the Baltic experienced…
- He Ejected From an SR-71—and Lived to Tell the Story · 38 min · Season 1 Episode 31SR-71 Ejection: Blair Bozek's Incredible Blackbird Survival Story What happens when a routine Mach 3 flight at 75,000 feet suddenly becomes a fight for survival? During an SR-71…
- Crew an SR-71, What was that like? · 46 min · Season 1 Episode 30SR-71 Blackbird: The Crew Behind Mach 3 The SR-71 Blackbird was built from titanium, flew above 80,000 feet, traveled at more than Mach 3, and incorporated technology decades…
- Battle of Britain to the SR-71: Exploring Duxford · 23 min · Season 1 Episode 35Our Duxford journey begins here. Join the Old Fly Guy for the first full-length episode from Imperial War Museum Duxford in England, as we walk one of the world's most historic…
- Want to Fly for the Airlines? Start Here · 6 min · Season 1 Episode 34How do you become a pilot in today's aviation world, and what does it really cost? At Sun 'n Fun 2026, The Old Fly Guy visits iFly Aviation near Chicago to learn how aspiring…
- Want to build an Airplane? Start Here · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 33At Sun 'n Fun 2026, The Old Fly Guy sits down with Ray Fowler of CubCrafters to explore the world of Experimental Amateur-Built aircraft. Many pilots dream of owning a new…
- From Heart Transplant to Restoring History · 29 min · Season 1 Episode 32Against nearly impossible odds, Bill was given less than a week to live. Today, he's back in the Air Zoo restoration hangar doing what he loves. In this inspiring episode of the…
- Who Would Spend 50,000 Hours on This? · 11 min · Season 1 Episode 31Step inside the restoration hangar at the Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum and meet the volunteers who are preserving aviation history one part, one rivet, and one friendship…
- No Parts Exist for This Aircraft… So They Make Their Own · 42 min · Season 1 Episode 30Go deeper inside the restoration hangar at the Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum as the volunteer restoration team tackles some of the most difficult challenges in bringing a…
- What It Really Takes to Restore a Warbird · 34 minStep inside the restoration hangar at the Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum and meet the people bringing aviation history back to life. In this first episode of our restoration…
- More Than a Museum: The Air Zoo Experience! · 51 min · Season 1 Episode 30Step inside the Air Zoo Aerospace & Science Museum in Kalamazoo, Michigan—one of the most immersive aviation and space museums in the United States, where history, engineering…
- From Passion to Pressure: Aviation Careers! · 24 min · Season 1 Episode 29In the second half of our conversation with the next generation of aviators at Rocky Mountain Flight School, the story shifts from inspiration… to reality. What does it actually…
- What’s Iran’s End Game? · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 29In this Old Fly Guy – Virtual Flightline episode, combat aviators Rusty O’Brien and Mace Carpenter break down one of the most complex and dangerous realities in today’s Iran…
- Three Pilots. Three Paths. One Beginning (Part 1) · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 28In Part 1 of our Rocky Mountain Flight School series, we turn from experience to the next generation of aviators — but this is only the beginning of their story. In this first…
- How Great Pilots Are Really Made · 36 min · Season 1 Episode 27In this episode of Old Fly Guy Network, we reconnect with seasoned flight instructor and mentor Matt Beyer at Rocky Mountain Flight School to explore a side of aviation that…
- AirPower over Iran: Precision Persuasion · 39 min · Season 1 Episode 26In this Old Fly Guy Episode – Virtual Flightline episode, F-111 combat veterans Rusty O’Brien and Mace Carpenter bring decades of real-world experience to one of today’s most…
