Steve, pls tell Gabby that your audience would love more from him. Gabby with a few insignificant errors in monologue is much better than no Gabby at all...
not to put down all the other awesome Aviation podcast but this is my favorite hands down. some of them have a very strict time schedule. others don't come up with as good of on the spot questions as the interview Progressive. thank you, for what you do to preserve history!
Agreed. The long-form conversation style in this is vastly superior to the others. Nothing against those with a series of the same scripted questions, but this is so much better
Great interview! Gabby has great stories and insight and Steve has the good sense to ask a good question and then listen. So nice to have an interviewer who listens to their guests!
I really enjoyed listening to Gabby. Dad had the same nuke mission at RAF Woodbridge, toss-bombing in the Voodoo in the early 60s. He also mentioned ad-hoc fighting the RAF Lightning. Not sure about the 70s, but when Robin Olds was CO in the 60s, there was a great social scene. Mom has good stories.
Mr. Drake , I say heck yeah its that guy again! i love all the details you remember, even if you dont remember where your car is. i dont mind listening to another 10 hours of GABBY DRAKE history hour.
Oooooh YESSS that guy again, thanks so much Gabby for all these insights Gabby, brilliant! Thanks Steve for organising and sharing all of your good work👍
These are easily the best interviews I have listened to. Guests given time to answer questions fully, and the host not talking all over them. Thank you
I LOVE this so freaking much. I usually listen in podcast form but seems like the RU-vid videos go up a few days before it appears on Spotify. Either way, I'm excited to get my fix on a Saturday night
I remember in an interview with an American F-111 jet jockey from back then, re" the low fly zones up north in Scotland talking to Ian Sanders from Cold War Conversations, and he said he was told "don't fly over the Queens place (so htat would be Balmoral?) otherwise your free to fly whereever you want", which fits in with what Mr Drake said about the low fly zones. I lawasy found that statement by the F-111 jockey kinda besmusing! haha
Tell Gabby that he's great! We all at times get parts of aircraft or terminology mixed up, please tell him that there's no worry about it as his stories are amazing to hear and think about. Another great interview!
Steve, thank you once again for bringing us these wounderful podcasts. And please tell Gabby he is amazing and inspiring and I love listening to him talk. Keep up the great work 👍
Great interview as always!!! Thanks a lot to you and your guests!!! By the way, it would be nice to interview one of the Argentine pilots who fought in the South Atlantic war in 1982. Politics asides, of course.
@@10percenttrue I am gonna try to get the contact of one of the Super Etendard Navy Aviators during the conflict. He did the Landing Signal Officer Qualification in the US Navy back in the 70s.
I crewed the F-4E moody afb 347th TFW 68th TFS 82 to 86. This interview really brought back a flood of memories. The viet nam era guys were awesome to work with..great experience for me.
Since Gabby Drake is a big F-16 fan, I wonder if he would say the F-16 is the F-4 of the 90ies. Would be fun to have a debate between Starbaby and Drake!
What a gent! Apologises for inaccuracies he MAY have accidentally passed along. Even though it only has to be 10 percent true after all! Class act sir! 🫡
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