@@jaybee9269 Yeah, I agree. That’s treason. If any pilot shares tactics or aircraft capabilities that are secret, then that’s also a crime and they should be fully prosecuted.
@@guaporeturns9472 Sorry that I didn’t reply earlier. I just noticed your comment. If you Google Ex-UK pilots lured to help Chinese military, MoD says, you’ll find, Former British military pilots are being lured to China with large sums of money to pass on their expertise to the Chinese military, it is claimed. Up to 30 former UK military pilots are thought to have gone to train members of China's People's Liberation Army. The UK is issuing an intelligence alert to warn former military pilots against working for the Chinese military. Attempts to headhunt pilots are ongoing and had been ramping up recently, Western officials say.
Another great interview Mike. Tug is a real character. If he ever came back up to his home town, I'd love to buy him a beer! I have literally hundreds of aviation related books.........Tug's is the most honest and self deprecating and conveyed exactly what I missed out on as a failed OASC candidate from the early and mid '80's. Thanks Tug and thanks Mike.👍👍
Really good conversation ones again! Love to hear F-18 stories, because those are the protectors of Finnish airspace and I have listened to their training flight sounds many times at my summer house. In a couple of years we shall have some F-35 too, but in the meantime F-18 is the workhorse of the sky.
He makes a pretty good pitch for being easy to read when he said his current hobby is "gin"!🤣🍸I thought he was going to say the card game gin. I can't stand drinking gin myself, but that was a fantastic answer and a brilliant interview.
The Phantom one is like Hen's teeth. You can get one from the States but the price is heading toward eye-watering. (If you import a copy .......... Can I borrow it? 🙄 )
I think your interview with Tug is the most enjoyable conversation with a fighter pilot I have ever had the pleasure to listen to. Great work, Mike! I'm off to buy his book. :)
That is the hard, though honorable, truth about the Tornado. A low level long range durable bomber. It was never designed to be a fighter for air dominance.
@@Aircrewinterview It reminded me of a Canberra pilot I knew who was low level over Germany when they flew through a flock of birds and lost both engines. Pulling up to eject….too low for the Navigator to survive….the Navigator said hang on, we’re on right base for……., whereupon he performed a dead stick landing ….to be balled out for landing without permission !! Not sure how he would get the gear down but probably gravity and accumulator braking. I imagined after this near death experience they would keep in touch , but the answer was No. I still find this rather odd.
The Tornado F3 was a purpose built like Cold War interceptor and it was the best in the world at that. It was built specifically for the purpose of intercepting Russian planes and weapons and destroying them. It was not a fighter and not designed to be one.
Life can be pretty harsh times. For guy like that who has achieved so much, to end up grounded because of a heart condition Well the word which springs to mind is one which will trigger the RU-vid censors and get the comment pulled.
Just to let you know, Wilson was the name of the tug in thomas the tank engine and that is a naval Jackspeak term that has stuck, ironic for an Air Force pilot...
'Tug' the other one, that's too cryptic or just keep on tugging as you do best. but There's no Engine in the Thomas the Tank Engine series called 'Wilson'.
Lovely bloke. No side to him at all. Great question set, too. Looking forward to his next book. I have the first one - it was a very interesting and entertaining read!
