5x5 with Scott Corley

Scott Corley
5x5 with Scott Corley Podcast

Scott interviews various people of interest who share their unique perspectives on life and their careers. Many of the episodes will be focused on aviation. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scott-corley/support

  1. (Pilot Life) #10 Iain Day: Freight Dawg/Aerobatic Pilot

    06/12/2021

    (Pilot Life) #10 Iain Day: Freight Dawg/Aerobatic Pilot

    Iain Day was 3 years old when his father took him to an airshow at RAF Leuchars outside Dundee in Scotland and he was hooked. He received a Flying Scholarship from the UKs Royal Air Force at the age of 16 as a member of the Air Training Corps. Iain was, for a while, the youngest Private pilot in Scotland being only 17 when he achieved that. At 18 Iain left home and moved to the United States to continue his aviation education. Capitalizing on on the more cost effective training environment in the States; Iain arrived in Phoenix, Arizona in late December 1994. There he started working on more licenses and ratings, eventually gaining all levels of flight instructor and advanced ground instructor certificates before he turned 21. Along with flight instructing, Iain worked as a support pilot and announcer for a nationally touring airshow act. In 2001 left Phoenix and moved to New England as a First Officer and later Captain for the now defunct Colgan Air flying all over the North East. He then flew corporate jets for 10 years. After that he went to went to Virgin America where he met me, we were flying the A320 out of JFK and EWR. He left this job after the sale of VX and they closed the only East Coast base it had. He now works for a large Cargo outfit; recently having transitioned from the Boeing 747 to the Boeing 777. Just over a year ago he traded his 1974 Bellanca Decathlon aircraft, N401AD, for my current aircraft, a 1992 Yakovlev 55M, N55YA. Follow him on Instagram @capecodyak --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scott-corley/support

    1h 43m
  2. #9 The Recovery of TWA 847. Dirty Work, Co-Author Brad Kuhn on Recovering TWA 847 and Storytelling

    02/11/2021

    #9 The Recovery of TWA 847. Dirty Work, Co-Author Brad Kuhn on Recovering TWA 847 and Storytelling

    Cover Photo:  Captain Richard Vaux(left), and Brad Kuhn(right): Co-Authors of Dirty Work. Brad Kuhn is a professional author.  He has often performed as a ghost-writer.   He helped Captain Richard Vaux tell the story of recovering the hijacked TWA B-727 from war torn Beirut, Lebanon in 1985.   The book can be found here: Dirty Work: The untold story of my secret mission to steal back TWA Flight 847 from Hezbollah https://www.amazon.com/dp/1072352885/ref=cm_sw_r_awdo_navT_a_PFPM9VD7JNEBER6XZRE6 He can be reached at BradKuhnandassociates.com   2:30 Ghostwriter vs Co-Author   6:00 From pilot stories to relevant context   8:00 Afghanistan    10:45 Geopolitical Context of the Times   13:00 Sense of Duty   15:00 TWA in Turmoil   16:10 Naabi Berri (SP?)   18:00. Hijackers let free   20:00 Carl Seeland   20:40 Memories over time   22:30  Corrections to a Print on Demand Book   25:35  Print on Demand as a business model   29:00  Where this Podcast is headed   29:45 Great Aviation Stories   31:00 The Craft of Making a Good Book   32:50. Sense of camaraderie after a job well done   34:40 Shared Stories   38:00  Respect the telling of a story   39:00 Lou Rehr   41:30 Evolution of a Story.. Maine ANG Training Runs   47:15 Twa Cargo for US Military Over Iran   53:00 White Line Fever   60:00  When you fail at trucking   62:50 Truckers and Pilots   67:00 Truthiness   70:30 Talking Heads and Conflict   78:00 Getting into a Hobby   79:33 Dedication --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scott-corley/support

    1h 21m
  3. #8 Counselor to Generals: Matt Sherman on his 10 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. W/Chad Hinkson

    28/10/2021

    #8 Counselor to Generals: Matt Sherman on his 10 years in Iraq and Afghanistan. W/Chad Hinkson

    Matt received his bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina in 1994, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. Sherman received his master's degree in international relations from Cambridge University in 1996. As a Fulbright Scholar, he worked with the Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs on US - Australian trade regulations. He later returned to Chapel Hill and received his J.D. from the University of North Carolina School of Law in 2002. (Source:Wikipedia—But also confirmed by Matt) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Sherman_(lawyer)  Matt’s unique charismatic personality helped him build relationships with all types of players on all sides of the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.  His resulting perspective would inform the key decision makers in both wars.  The list of people he advised includes General Stanley McChrystal, General David Petraeus, and General John F Campbell.   12:46 Nothing Simple  14:00 Geography plays huge role in how nations evolve  15:30 Long term force presence  17:00  How to interpret the political views regarding now..  18:50 Forever War isn’t the way to look at it  21:00 How wars end  32:20 Afghani Institutions today  33:46 US Mission in Afghanistan  34:30 Reason for Pride in the mission  35:00 What caused 9/11 and will the Taliban be able to enforce prevention of terrorist training camps.  38:40 Justification for Invading Afghanistan and whether the Taliban could have turned over Osama Bin Laden to the US.  41:00 How Important was finding and killing OBL.  44:45  Perceptions of Force  46:20 The Fierce debate in Washington on the first surge in 2006  51:10 Obama Surge  53:20 The psychological impact of leaving  54:30 How many Americans are in Afghanistan against their will right now  56:20  Afghani helpers to the US left there  56:50 Helping People Out of Afghanistan  78:30 Advertisement  88:00 Dan Carlin  93:20 Wars bringing out the best in people.  94:00  Looking for more or broader perspective  100:00 Round up of Saddam’s AirForce  109:30 Colin Powell’s perspectives  1:58:00 Sister BA   Acknowledgments: Thanks to Matt Sherman for his time and the sharing of his perspectives.  Thanks to Sheila Corley for help in general in life and more specifically to this episode helping me consolidate my thoughts for the Intro.  Chad H for showing up.  The Ninja 9 for the intro music.  (Solstice from the Pandemia album.)  Mike Marts for creative connections.  Parkin Corley for writing/playing drums on the outro music.  Brendan Ruane, who is an outstanding audio engineer, for coaching me over the last year plus to help me get to the point where I was able to create the sound mix from this episode by myself….  Shawn G Smith for demanding better from me. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scott-corley/support

    2h 4m

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Scott interviews various people of interest who share their unique perspectives on life and their careers. Many of the episodes will be focused on aviation. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/scott-corley/support

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