I recently sat for a three-hour Zoom interview with a Dutch friend who follows my blog, Robert Hoeting. He’s starting a podcast and our talk is to be the first installment: the subject being my experiences in the U.S. Air Force and flying the F-15 Eagle. We covered a bit of my personal history as well, stories I haven’t shared with anyone in ages. By the time we signed off, I was hoarse.
Anyway, this is a teaser for the eventual podcast, which I’ll formally announce when it’s complete and ready for prime time. Right now two short segments of the interview are up on Robert’s YouTube channel, BobCast. When the entire interview has been edited and approved, I’ll make another announcement and post the link.
Robert is a retired commercial pilot with over 15,000 hours, 9,000 of which were in Boeing 737s, and extensive experience flying in the American Southwest. He grew up near Soesterberg Air Base in the Netherlands and as a teenager was fascinated by the F-15 Eagles based there. Just coincidentally, I was one of the Eagle drivers at Soesterberg during those years. He’s a fan of my blog (and my Air-Minded posts in particular); I’m honored to be the subject of his first interview.
I’ve seen a lot of aviation interviews on YouTube. Despite my love of all things flying, I get bored with interviews quickly. Why? Because the camera’s almost always focused on a talking head, sitting at a desk. Luckily for Robert and me, there was a problem with the video and the footage of my talking head disappeared into the ether, never to be found, leaving only the audio. What Robert has done is to use photos and short video clips instead, splicing them together over the background audio of our conversation. It makes for a more interesting interview, I think, and hope you’ll agree.