Month: July 2023

Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XXXXXII: “High Flight”. Captain Smith clarifies how the poem “High Flight” is a template for how one should “think” when engaged in flight operations and high velocity combat operations.

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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XXXXXI: Captain Smith answers a question posed by his audio engineer: “You have been spending quite a lot of time on this show and writing your Substack articles on 1) velocity, 2) atmospheric compression, 3) time compression, 4) temporal displacement, and 5) the flow. Can you explain how all of these fit together?”

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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XXXXX: Captain Smith answers this week’s question posed by his audio engineer, “You are proposing a radical idea: remove your currently installed intellectual equipment that is faulty and replace it with new and different intellectual equipment that will work. Please explain this for our listening audience.”

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Think Like a Fighter Pilot – Part XXXXIX: Captain Smith is proposing a radical idea: that is if you want to perform well, you must first remove much of your intellectual equipment and replace it with that which will optimize performance during high-stakes operations.

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