Fighter Pilot Podcast
Hosted by Cinco · Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot
4.9from 3,386 ratings
- 381
- Episodes
- 92
- Transcribed
- 3,386
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2018
- First episode
- 20M
- YouTube views
About Fighter Pilot Podcast
The Fighter Pilot Podcast explores the fascinating world of air combat: the aircraft, the weapons systems, the emerging technologies, and most importantly—the people. Most episodes feature a guest who helps explain military aviation topics such from Vietnam shoot down stories to how AI is changing air combat. If you love the roar of a high-speed flyby or are enamored by the poise and confidence of the brave men and women who fly, fix, and fight these amazing aircraft, then this show is for you!
- Publisher
- Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot
- Category
- government · history · leisure · society & culture · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 1 Jan 2018
- Latest episode
- 21 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
92 of 381 episodes have a transcript.
21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
FPP225 - In the Skies Over Iraq
14 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
FPP224 - The Software Problem
7 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
FPP223 - The Human Factor
Inside a recent episode
FPP225 - In the Skies Over Iraq
Published 21 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it was just one of those things where at the end of the Bush administration, Bush 41 said, hey, I'm tired of my guys getting shot at during these OSW missions. It's time to beat back the defenses a little bit. So that's what we ended up doing. That I would call a combat mission. I have a little bit of a different view of combat than the United States Navy does. If you're dropping weapons or somebody is actually shooting at you, that's combat. If you're just flying over someplace where they're not going to buy you a bus ticket, if you get shot down, or if your airplane loses both engines, they're not going to buy you a bus ticket to the border. […]
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See plansWho has been a guest on Fighter Pilot Podcast
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- Doug "Woody" Beal
- Rob Slaughter
- Kevin Bernstein
- Lance Lewis
- Israel Baharav
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 19,817,633
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 1,851 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 1,535 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 76 / 100
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- Quality
- 76
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 99
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Who hosts Fighter Pilot Podcast?
Cinco host the show. Published by Tucker "Cinco" Hamilton, Retired U.S. Air Force Fighter Test Pilot.
How often do new episodes come out?
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Does Fighter Pilot Podcast take guests?
Yes. Guests have been identified in episode analyses.
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