Flying the F-4G, Part 1: Starbaby Pietrucha

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00:00:00 Intro
00:01:50 Starbaby’s background story
00:08:30 why didn’t you want the front seat and Pilot vs WSOs
00:15:00 Specialised undergraduate Nav training & fighter training
00:20:20 student pilot “tries to kill” Starbaby
00:22:30 EWO school
00:26:00 Starbaby vs Nazgûl!!!
00:29:00 Spang, German food rules and whizz wheels
00:34:00 the war hero split
00:37:30 loosing focus 🤪
00:38:30 tactics development
00:40:50 Steve vs camera
00:41:30 Zaragoza - a terrible pilot, dive toss, a Ramen noodle fire and green beans
00:56:40 the difficulty of not being an alcoholic - changes in fighter culture?
00:1:01:10 first combat deployment in Saudi
00:1:18:05 Steve’s daughter attempts infiltration (yes you can hear her!)
01:18:30 SAM tactics analysis post Gulf War
01:23:00 Air Force chooses Stealth over EW and the ongoing repercussions
01:33:00 Radar tape debrief
01:48:15 HARM vs aerial targets again
01:54:25 trench coat & heels

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24 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 79

@bigglestintin6875 Год назад

I was getting withdrawal symptoms

@mattshopping Год назад

Steve and Mike are the best podcast double act. It’s such a pleasure to listen to something so natural and uncontrived !

@wastedapathy22 Год назад

Yes! A new Starbaby interview! *clicks thumbs-up

@pjotrtje0NL Год назад

I’m going to have to stay up late today to watch Starbaby again. He’s always good for insightful knowledge, and for laughs!

@Aspen51 Год назад

Just logged in after a 26hr flight from hell.... Scotch in hand, clicked the Tube & Voila! Thank you both from a retired "Ground Pounder"........

@dutchholland6928 Год назад

Old retired AF Pilot here. Dude this guy is THE stereotypical, quintessential backseater. Love listening to this guy, he takes me back. I can tell he would’ve been a great guy to fly with. What a hoot!

@redsierra8631 Год назад

I never thought I would get soo excited to see the name starbaby thank you both for the wonderful content

@Lochaby Год назад

Please keep talking to starbaby until he gets bored of even himself. ❤ this guy, thanks!

@sunhawk61 Год назад

Starbaby I knew it, Pappy Boyington and the F4 Corsair, outstanding aircraft. So you ended up in later years in the seat of the F4 Phantom, a direct decedent of the Corsair. The F4 Corsair is my favorite WWII aircraft. The F4 Phantom was my favorite jet aircraft of the 70's. I remember the Thunderbirds were flying F4 Phantoms when I went to my first airshow in the early 70's at the old Richards Gebauer AFB in Missouri. It was either right before or after my brother was drafted for Viet Nam. It was a rainy day and the Phantoms were limited, but it was a great show.

@terraoftime 5 месяцев назад

I was watching this while reading the DCS F-4E manual so when you guys got to the radar part it was cool to be able to understand somewhat what was going on. Great interview it's always nice hearing Starbaby's storries.

@soulmanm12954 4 месяца назад

Love the background pic! Have the original in my hero pictures in storage! Remember helping to train this young man!!!! Thanks for the memories, Soulman 😉

@elderforest617 Год назад

Another great storytime with Starbaby. I always get EWOs and EWO-ks confused. One is more cute and fluffy than the other 😋

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Год назад

But we’ve both been known to sport silly bandannas from time to time

@alexandernparker Год назад

Another great Starbaby episode! It was fun to hear about your early years before and after we crossed paths in Lost Almost. I have a super clear Jr High School recollection from during the Iran hostage crisis when you were SURE that you had the mission plan worked out for the rescue operation. This was in some social studies class we had together as I recall. But I know that I also did that aviation merit badge in Boy Scouts, and that’s making me think that I remember you in a scout uniform too. Because there had to have been only one scout troop in Los Alamos - Troop 122, right? At any rate, keep the stories coming - it’s great fun to vicariously experience a more adventurous life than I ended up living!

@karlhowett9308 Год назад

Glad little old New Zealand could host Starbaby! Still upset we lost our strike force :(

@jasondsimpson Год назад

Finally! Been looking forward to this for weeks!

@jeremyhaynes108 Год назад

Thank you for doing this. Very cool to get this level of access and info. Great job.

@singlesprocket Год назад

Thanks for the stories gents 👍🏼 Looking forward to parts 3… and 4?!

@laMoort Год назад

Yet another wonderful episode, thanks alot for the laughs.❤

@shd4618 Год назад

Thank you Steve. The channel is brilliant.

@biggus3348 Год назад

Awesome to watch!

@mlcochran78 Год назад

Can't wait for Part 2

@Ian-Saxon Год назад

More Starbaby. Yes. Cheers for the upload lads. Another compelling interview. One thing....when are we gonna get the commentary on the "X wing death star attack"?

@LinuxLea Год назад

Hi Starbaby and Steve! So good to have you wtith me again! ( No parasocial implications there, promise!)

@graemewilson1400 Год назад

Steve and Michael great to see you both back. I would just like to thank you both for doing this series. I have zero flight experience although my father learnt to fly in Canada during WWII and had a lifetime of flying after the war. This stuff is just great dad never spoke about his experiences so to listen to you two, for me is just wonderful. Thanks guys.🇦🇺

@bcthomas2h90 Год назад

I don't understand it all, but this is a great interview!! Good stories!

@sedlo Год назад

:-) I bet there are some interesting food-related stories on Okinawa that you might have, BC!

@bcthomas2h90 Год назад

@@sedlo I stayed pretty close to the O'Club and selected restaurants off-base. Very selected.

@sedlo Год назад

@@bcthomas2h90 my dad was a Marine there in the ‘60’s. He told me some stories of interesting meals. ;)

@dutchbrotherfan1284 Год назад

Grew up in Sacramento Ca home to Mather AFB the fun thing was to learn when navigation class gets to see multiple airframe days. I would sign in claiming to visit Silver Wings museum but go park ner base ops and walk around acting like I belonged and got access to B-52 B-1 P-3 F-111 and F4’s even watching departing aircraft was a kick . Marine RF-4 did a roll and full burner . The good old days

@carlfasbinder5746 Год назад

Listening to this and thinking of an F4-G test pilot and later squadron commander at Spangdahlem, Lt Col Jerry Linn. Died in crash of 69-0252 on 08-NOV-1982.

@IkeThe9th Год назад

More Starbaby? Hell yeah!

@nickforster748 Год назад

I laughed so hard driving home from LHR in the Friday pm traffic that the journey seemed to pass in the blink of an eye! Starbaby is such a great raconteur & his tales of USAFE in the early 90s make me miss that time although I was only in training at the time. Sadly, I feel that the unacceptable behaviour at the notorious Tailhook & the knee jerk response from the hierarchy stifled good natured high jinks subsequently. To give one pilot's perspective on the relationship between front & back seaters I would say this. In the late 90s, when I joined the Tornado GR1 Force at times information was available to the nav/WSO that wasn't to the pilot so as to ensure a dependency from back to front. The was a concern you might "go rogue". It was operated like the Buccaneer! As weapons became more complex & the workload became unsustainable in the back cockpit, more information was shared allowing better sharing of SA IMHO. Agree with Starbaby that a crew working well saw the team as greater than the sum of it's parts. The converse, definitely not!!!

@will80913 Год назад

I sent this video to “Santa” after you talked about him. Great stories.

@amplify1802 7 месяцев назад

This is Great I grew up in Saudi Aramco Dhaharan I was was there for the war Exiting Goodtimes! But you could get Ham on the black market

@sageg58 Год назад

Starbaby best guest

@pugloverg6671 Год назад

Saw the radar guys peaking and tweaking those radars looking at stuff reflecting off the open canopy while standing on a toolbox …..fun times for shre

@r.gilman4261 Год назад

FYI Starbaby, VMF-214 was a real thing, not just a TV show in the 1970s ( Crayons not included)

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Год назад

Of course. The Black Sheep, commanded by Maj. Greg “Pappy” Boyington until he was shot down and captured. He was a Medal of Honor winner.

@petekaragiannis1716 Год назад

Baa Baa Black Sheep intro ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3pvzA6-tSqE.html

@colocopper8464 Год назад

I was at George AFB during the mid-late 70's when the Thuds were there and during the transfer of the Weasel mission to the F-4G. Worked part of my time up the Cuddeback range. Great mission, great aircraft and loved working up at the Cudd. Have some photos from up there but don't know how to post them here.

@petekaragiannis1716 Год назад

Is it too late for the Star Wars “brevity comms” episode? This would make a great into reel ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aDFTBtxILDk.html

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Год назад

@@petekaragiannis1716 Not too late

@jdliefting8926 Год назад

12:00 EA-6B is the closest i guess. Not a fighter but still a 4 seater that shoots missiles 😂

@MrMonkeyTrousers Год назад

So, no shit, there I was just waiting for a new Starbaby chat to drop……..

@amplify1802 7 месяцев назад

The Merridian!!!!!AHHHHH

@michaeldwyer3466 Год назад

What, a book. YESSSSSSSSS, start writing.

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Год назад

I've done so. Starting is easy. It's finishing...

@michaeldwyer3466 Год назад

@@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions I noticed you didn't really finish that sentence, very telling.

@pjotrtje0NL Год назад

So, aiming for 950 pages, @@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions?

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Год назад

@@pjotrtje0NL Whatever it takes

@ghostdog688 Год назад

thanks for showing the radar footage. can we see any more radar footage with the radar in full working order?

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Год назад

I don't know if I have any. I'm lucky to have that tape.

@ghostdog688 Год назад

@@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions I totally understand. Perhaps we can cast the net a bit further, but I appreciate whatever we can get :)

@Nghilifa Год назад

1:51:35 So it was an overzealous Eagle driver with an itchy trigger finger who lobbed a Sparrow up the B-52s ass then! 😂😂

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Год назад

Why would you come to that conclusion?

@davidgoddard594 Год назад

Good thing Starbaby had his name or Fishass might have worked, probably not acceptable. Live bait instead.😀😀😉

@ji3194 Год назад

Outstanding to hear Starbaby spent time in New Mexico as a kid. (I am a Native New Mexican)

@irongron Год назад

Shame we don't have that "Baghdad SAM density" over Kyiv....

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Год назад

They do, actually.

@irongron Год назад

@@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions I didn't think it was quite up to the level, or maybe even S-75's "downtown" back in the day, obscured density w/ OPSEC I guess, that's good to hear, Kyiv gets hammered, where I am, maybe once a week something whizzes overhead, if that.Im sitting here sweating like a pig, I have air-con, brand new unit, it's in Donbas and I can't partake in its coolness, that's really pissing me off among other things, I f***ing hate Putins guts so much......what a PoS. never take air-con for granted....:X

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions 11 месяцев назад

@@irongron Yeah, I'm with you, but if you look at the majority of shots taken at Kiev proper, you'll see a remarkably effective air defense system that can handle everything from mopeds to the Kinzhal and Iskanders. Nothing is perfect, but Ukrainian air defense guys almost certainly hold the record for effectiveness against missiles of all types.

@toxickilljoy9037 Год назад

Me: Take me to the star, baby. Her: Dont you mean stars? Me: I dont think its gonna work out...

@amplify1802 7 месяцев назад

Went to the rear fed the troops had them over Thanksgiving and the like. Khobar. Towers that was bad

@5EyesIsntWatching 7 месяцев назад

DCS and Heatblur should use Starbaby instead of Jester

@mattshopping Год назад

Mike has been truly (10%) Anglicised “There was always the danger he was gonna be a bit of a Wanker about it!” 🤣

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Год назад

I can also still use "ratbag" in a sentence. So maybe Commonwealthized.

@mattshopping Год назад

That’s really interesting. My English grandfather used to use the phrase “ratbag” I didn’t realise that it was an Australian term until today. He served in Burma in WWII so possibly picked up the term from the ANZACS there. It’s certainly not in common use here in England My thanks to you and Steve for these thoroughly entertaining shows 👍

@j.w.perkins6004 Год назад

The WSO's guidence (literally) kept my ass outta the grease more than once. Ya better bond, or the relationship is busted. You'll never sync. That discourse, can get deadly......

@juliussokolowski4293 Год назад

Just what the doctor ordered....

@jmp.t28b99 10 месяцев назад

STINSON STATION WAGON

@robertreynolds1302 Год назад

What’s the 2nd rule of 10% True. Anyway - worst 14hrs of my life served. Didn’t even know until I opened RU-vid. Sweet - star baby Aussie connection, used to love those comics as a youngun.

@stuartb9194 Год назад

When I was 10 I saw myself in Kate Bush

@ricardokowalski1579 Год назад

one hour and four minutes when they give you mast height, you know it got real 😝

@petebravo7180 Год назад

As a former 15 crew chief I can confirm more issues dealing with pilots then WSOs

@viksaini Год назад

Awesome! John Holmes and Erik Everhard return.

@anirudhverma9508 Год назад

This guy really thought VF-214 and Greg Boyington are fictional hahahahahahahaha

@StarbabyAirPiracyProductions Год назад

Not so much. The show was fictional, and it was only loosely connected to VMF-214's history. That becomes very clear when you read Boyington's book. It might have been clearer if I'd said "fictionalized".