10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit

F-15 Eagle Driver, "Disco" Dildy (Part 2 & 3)

October 07, 2023 Steve Davies / Douglas C. Dildy Season 55 Episode 2
10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit
F-15 Eagle Driver, "Disco" Dildy (Part 2 & 3)
10 Percent True - Tales from the Cockpit
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0:00 Intro
2:55 Disco’s career chronology
7:20 Eagle vs friendly contemporaries 
26:35 Making fighter pilots smarter 
27:00 Flanker factor
29:10 Intel deployed for political leverage instead of frontline efficacy 
33:15 Exiting a fight on your own terms and 3D chess
40:45 1 vs 2
43:20 Max performing
56:30 “Feeling” the L/D curve 
58:35 Eagle cheat codes? CAS and roll coupling 
1:03:30 Being where you don’t want to be
1:08:30 The 2 v 1 and the importance of comms before Datalink
1:13:50 Can you disengage from an Eagle 2 ship?
1:16:50 Mitigation for the Eagle’s size/visual detectability 
1:20:35 Balancing your defence with remaining offensive 
1:25:30 DTT - welcome to Steve’s rabbit hole
1:31:00 Weapon School Grads and politicising the patch
1:38:00 A short 1v2 story and a classic fighter pilot deception 
1:44:20 2v2
1:56:05 Enemy tactics that posed a threat, what to train to?
2:03:00 Iraqi AF competency and tactics beyond Desert Storm
2:06:40 High fast fliers

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