EAA's The Green Dot - An Aviation Podcast

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Tom are joined by former U.S. Air Force test pilot and NASA astronaut Charlie Precourt, currently an EAA board member and EAA Safety Committee chairman, to discuss homebuilding and his experience building a VariEze.

This time on The Green Dot, host Chris Henry is joined by George Luz, Jr., whose father, George Luz, served in E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division during World War II, which was made famous by the 1992 book Band of Brothers and the 2001 HBO miniseries of the same name.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Tom are joined by Clay and Nathan Hammond to discuss Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Chris and Tom are joined by Bill Goebel to discuss his restoration of a Beech Super 18.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Chris are joined by Basler Turbo Conversions President Joe Varkoly.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Chris and Connor are joined by Steve and Jane Hinton of Planes of Fame Air Museum.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Chris are joined by Damon Reabe, a third-generation aerial applicator.

Excerpt: This time on The Green Dot, hosts Chris and Connor are joined by Eric Boehm, the curator of aviation at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Tom are joined by Dr. Jennifer Levasseur, museum curator of the space history department at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum.

EAA’s The Green Dot — EAA’s 70th Anniversary. This time on The Green Dot , hosts Hal and Tom are joined by EAA CEO and Chairman of the Board Jack J. Pelton to reflect on EAA’s humble beginnings as a social club and its evolution into the organization we know today. Read more ›

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Chris and Tom are joined by Ben Page, EAA Aviation Museum curator, to speak about the museum’s new exhibit, Corsair: Korean War Heroism.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Chris and Connor are joined by Wally Soplata, the author of The B-25 in the Backyard: My Father’s Historic Airplane Sanctuary, to talk about his memories of growing up with a father obsessed with historic airplanes.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Chris and Tom are joined by Mike Beck, owner of Calm Sky Adventures in Omro, Wisconsin, to speak about the history of hot air balloons, as well as his unique experiences flying them.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Chris were joined by Charlie Hooker, who flew the B-58 Hustler while serving with the U.S. Air Force’s Strategic Air Command in the 1960s.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Chris were joined by Tony Yule, a retired Royal Air Force and BOAC/British Airways pilot, to talk about flying one of the most iconic airliners of all time — Concorde.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Chris were joined by Alyssa “Blueberry” Carson, who has attended numerous NASA space camps over the years and is currently studying and training toward the goal of one day becoming an astronaut.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Tom and Chris were joined by Sharon “Betty” Preszler, who was part of the initial cadre of female fighter pilots to serve with the U.S. Air Force and was the first woman to fly and instruct in the F-16.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Tom and Chris were joined by Connor Madison, EAA’s staff photographer, to recap EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022 and share each of their perspectives about this year’s version of the World’s Greatest Aviation Celebration.

This time on The Green Dot, EAA vice presidents Rick Larsen and Sean Elliott are talking AirVenture. Tune in as Rick and Sean join hosts Tom and Chris to cover what to expect at AirVenture 2022, including grounds updates, air show highlights, TOPGUN programming, and more!

This time on The Green Dot, we welcomed a multigenerational panel of crews from all three of the U.S. Air Force’s major gunship platforms — the AC-47, AC-119, and AC-130 — to discuss the history of gunships and compare experiences from service.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Tom and Chris were joined by Jerry Bradley, EAA 879528, who spoke about his career in aviation, which included flying electronic warfare missions in the EC-47 during the Vietnam War.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Hal and Tom were joined by Budd Davisson, EAA 22483, who shared stories about his adventures and career as an aviation journalist and flight instructor, and the more than 300 different aircraft types he’s flown in the process.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Chris and Tom were joined by Ken Jungeberg and Air Corps America’s Ester Aube to discuss …

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Chris and Tom were joined by Kenneth Katz, EAA 1086171, to discuss his career as a U.S. Air Force flight test engineer working on the B-52 Stratofortress at Edwards Air Force Base, as well as his new book The Supersonic BONE: A Development and Operational History of the B-1 Bomber.

This time on The Green Dot, hosts Chris and Hal welcomed a very special guest to the show, Vietnam War Navy ace Randall “Duke” Cunningham! Duke flew the F-4 Phantom II in Vietnam and became the U.S. Navy’s only pilot ace of the war.