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This is a Bits & Pieces episode with recorded segments from the hosts, contributors, and listeners.
The segments that make up this episode [with start times]:
Sean Mobley from The Museum of Flight in Seattle, Washington hosts the Museum’s “Flight Deck Podcast” and he has two clips from that show. [2:16]
Airplane Geeks Reporter-at-Large Launchpad Marzari speaks with Jim Dimatteo, the race director for Red Bull Air Race. [12:26]
The decorated former TOPGUN Commander Jim DiMatteo, now Race Director of the Red Bull Air Race. Courtesy of Red Bull Air Race Media Service.
Red Bull race control. Photo by Launchpad Marzari.
Main(e) man and Contributor-at-Large Micah tells his story called New Years Dad. The new year comes at least once annually, sometimes with thoughts of airplanes, and sometimes those thoughts come in combination with other things. Micah gives us some thoughts that occurred to him over two New Years. [32:28]
Micah and his Dad, leaving London and headed to Paris.
Max Flight gives an update on the Eat at the Airport project. [41:36]
Eat at the Airport
Launchpad Marzari talks with Capt Skip “Loose” Lussier (USN retired) who flew President George W. Bush in an S-3 to the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln for a televised address on May 1, 2003. [47:41]
Preflight brief.
Pacific Ocean (May 1, 2003) — President George W. Bush successfully traps aboard USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) in a S-3B Viking assigned to the Blue Wolves of Sea Control Squadron Three Five (VS-35) designated “NAVY 1”. President Bush is the first sitting President to trap aboard an aircraft carrier at sea. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer’s Mate Airman Gabriel Piper.
Dave Homewood from the Wings Over New Zealand Show has a history segment on the de Havilland Mosquito. [1:12:57]
de Havilland Mosquito at the Warbirds Open Day at Ardmore, on the 18th of November 2018.
Mossie in the Avspecs hangar during the WONZ Christmas party visit, 8th of December, 2018.
Dr. Ellen Stofan. Copyright Smithsonian Institution.
David Vanderhoof attended the celebration for the 15th anniversary of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center and recorded the interview with Dr. Ellen Stofan, the new John and Adrienne Mars Director at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. She was interviewed by Pete Muntean, a Certificated Flight Instructor and a television news reporter for WUSA9 in Washington, DC. [1:27:56]
Credit
Outtro by Bruno Misonne.
Love the EAT AT THE AIRPORT idea. Ive been to many around the country so I have two suggestions.
1. Not sure why Yelp is used but I don’t care much for yelp. Wish their was another way to list their name and address.
2. After being a commercial pilot for over
34 years I love small airports! Big ones make me feel like I’m going to work. Plus flying my small plane into a small airport is great fun. So maybe two lists, the first are restaurants at small airfields the second are restaurants you might find at major airports. Love the podcast!
Thanks for the feedback, Carter. We use the link to the restaurant provided by the person who submitted it, but at times we do a little research if we think we can do better. Sometimes small restaurants don’t have their own domain name and will use FaceBook as their “website.” Others don’t even do that so the only online reference to them is a review site like Yelp. So that may be the only link available.
We’ve added a way for you to submit a revision to an existing entry on the Eat at the Airport map. If you find something has changed, or if you have better information about an airport eatery, please let us know. It’s a crowd-sourced project and data maintenance is important.
Thanks!