Flying & Fighting in the Typhoon | Mike Sutton (Part 2)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 เม.ย. 2022
- Former RAF Typhoon pilot, Mike Sutton shares what it was like transitioning from the Jag to the Typhoon, joining 11 Squadron to create tactics to bring it to combat-ready status, DACT, taking it into live theatre, his book “Typhoon” and much more!
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Hey guys I just got done reading Mike Sutton's book Typhoon - it can be summarised in one word - outstanding on so many levels. Firstly the book is written with a humility that is so lacking with most fighter pilots. Given what Mike has done that borders on a miracle that equates to parting the red sea. However for me though what is much more important about this book he is totally open about what the Typhoon was good at and what it wasn't good at it. The mark of a true professional. A great read.
I was groundcrew on jags and typhoon and remember Sooty well. I moved to 11 sqn the same time as Mike, when it stood up with typhoon, and us engineers had the same issues as the aircrew did; everyone posted in from different types, with different ways of thinking and operating, and lots of things to sort. The work was non stop but very rewarding.
Makes me feel good that we have such high calibre men in these fast jets as Mike.
This guy had an amazing career. It was a good interview. he seems like a top bloke all round.
He's so humble! Mike Sutton had a great career, a dream career, and that cannot be sheer luck as he puts it.
I had the pleasure of being friends with Mike in our first year at SUAS flying out of Boscombe Down. We drifted apart as I changed university. Glad he fulfilled his dream. He appears to have stayed every bit the great chap he was then too.
I was in Cyprus on that first night. Still feels like not long ago, trying to get everything together to load the jets. I remember eating dinner on the pan next to the aircraft as we didn't have time to properly stop, cold beans and half a baked potato as the armourers had been forgotten about so we got what was left. I was the safety man for pulling the flare pins giving the pilots a thumbs up as they left, seeing the Tornadoes take off with thrusters blazing and then the Typhoon like it was no effort at all. Was great when they came back with some ordinance dropped and another thumbs up indicating it had gone well. 👍
What a man. I’ve just finished his book and I was captivated from the first to the last page.
I remember Will Saunders, he also had a degree in engineering. A very clever guy.
US Kindle is available! Just bought it! Excellent interview! Mike Sutton is a very cool dude!
Great interview! I absolutely love the Typhoon but hearing this, I was truly surprised by the actual power of this beautiful jet... It's crazy that they don't use reheat that much
What a thoroughly humble guy.........actually, the kind of guy I'd love to have a beer with and know that whatever he told you would be free of hype or bull! Dare I say it, the Americans could learn a lot from Mike!! Great interview!!
Just finished his book myself, absolutely superb. What a career, one can only dream…
Mike’s book is a great read
Another cracking interview 👍🏼 Respect to the RAF and our allies ♥️
Wow!
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Just ordered his book!
When flying over dangerous ISIS controlled areas, and this pilots main concern is performance anxiety.
There’s a lot to unpack and process from this interview. Key takeaways are the multicultural convergence of Tornado, Jaguar, Harrier, and RAF-USAF exchange pilots who all contributed to the multirole mission sets available with the Typhoon upgrade packages in RAF, which turned it into a different combat system than the pure interceptor it was mostly envisioned as.