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Ryan Graves

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“I used to have those moments on the boat when I was catching Planes Land. They would trap and it'd be nighttime. And it's just all this chaos in the middle of the ocean and nothing. And I would have these moments where I'd be like, how the hell did I end up here? And this one moment in time next to an aircraft landing on a boat in the middle of the ocean, you know? Where did my life, you know, how did my life go to end up here? How interesting? But what I did start to enjoy was the night vision goggles and putting those on and looking up at the stars flying around, especially. Over the ocean”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's just very meditative, and it's the hum behind you. And then at like four miles, almost like, oh, the light is a little bit bigger. And you almost kind of have to snap back to it and be like, oh, I need to like kind of like look around a little bit and engage my brain back to my body and like.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If the lights were on, which they're not, but we can maybe see the string of aircraft in front of us. But what's interesting is that it can take a while. You might be 15 miles out and your lights are turned down as dim as possible. You have a cloud deck maybe at six or seven thousand feet so that the starlight, there's no moon. But let's say the starlight's blocked out, right? Because just the starlight alone with no moon, you can see the boat. You can see the water. But when that goes away, it's like closing your eyes, right? You can't tell anything. It could be upside down. You could be in any position. And for me, it was almost a meditative process that I had to snap myself back out of when I was on like a long straightaway. And then I would see the light pop up in the sea of darkness, right? No lights anywhere. Can't even see the horizon. I just see a light out there. My instruments were telling me, and they're turned down as far as I can go, right? So I can barely see them. So my eyes can adjust. And I'm just staring at this light in the distance.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sometimes you just don't have a place to divert. But, you know, in a sense, we're trained for that because we do the night landings as well. And I think you'll find this interesting. But I always found that the night landings where in these particular cases you're usually lined up behind the boat maybe 10, 15 miles, whereas the other ones, it's like a tight circle, the landing pattern. And so we can potentially see the boat way out there.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Weather is so bad that the landing sill officer on the boat can't see you either, and you can't see the boat, and you won't be able to see it when you touch I would call that a zero zero land And you turn on the taxi light so that the LSO who has a radio in his hand that looks like a phone from 1980. Is talking directly to the pilot and he's looking at that little light in the rain and he's telling him you're high, you're low power, things like that come right back to left and literally talking him down to land on the boat right there. And the pilot usually comes as a surprise to the pilot to landing because he's just listening to the voice, can't see the ball, can't see the boat.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so that's the one I wanted to tell you about. That's the hardest one. And what you hear is if you hear 99 taxi lights on, that's really.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And so when the ball's up high, don't try to bring it back in close to the center point when you're in close because what you're going to do is you bring the power off and you're going to crash right down. And that's what happens, right? Because you got the burble pulling you down. You might be correcting, which is decreasing your lift. And then you have that type of maneuver.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wouldn't even call it a miscalculation. I mean, I'm going to put the blame on the pilot because he's the only one in the cockpit. But then the day he's reacting to the situations he's dealing with. And so it may be errors or he may be doing the best with, you know, the conditions that he's been given on that particular one. You just got too high a rated sentence. Very common. And that's what you see it with new pilots. You see it with older pilots, right? New ones and complacent ones. What you see is they'll try to make the ball go right where they want it in close. They think they can beat the game a little bit. And they try to, and so we have sayings. We teach pilots as a landing token law officer. We tell them, like, don't recenter the high ball in close. It's one of the rules to live by.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In this particular case, it hit and then it gave and essentially dragged the hook on the surface after that. And so he was able to grab it.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I've seen a ramp strike, which is when a part of the aircraft hits before the landing area, which is basically the roundout of the boat that is before the landing area. So they basically struck the back of the boat coming in. It was just their hook, so it wasn't their aircraft. And they were fine. That one was kind of ugly.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And then, of course, as you come down that glide slope, it becomes more and more narrow, and you have to, of course, Modulate your inputs such that they're smaller and smaller because they have a bigger and bigger effect as you get closer in. And what happens too when you get in close is that right before you cross over, if this is the boat right here, your table, right before you kind of get your wings over the boat itself, this big wind from the main tower of the boat is where it dips down. So the wind actually goes down. It's called the burble. It'll actually pull the aircraft down, increase your rate of descent. So at that particular point, you need to increase your power and try to compensate against that. And so that's kind of a third variable that's trying to screw you up on your way down.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And every time you do one of those Maybe it's a 30 degree degree angle bank, right? I'm losing lift. And so I have to compensate with power each time I do that. So I'm doing another one”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So you don't want to just bring the power up and leave it there. You have to bring the power up, touch it, bring it back. And oh, by the way, your landing area is moving not just away from you, but also on an angle, right? Because we have an angle deck. And so you're constantly doing one of these to correct yourself as you go.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It's an iFloss landing system, which stands for something very long convoluted. But essentially, it's a mirror with lights on it. And you see the light at a different cell based on your position relative to an ideal glide slope. So, if you're right on it, you're right in the middle, and if you're below, you're low. And as I add power and maneuver the aircraft, that ball. I see that ball rise. I see the ball low. It's a lagging indicator, though, right? And your jet is a lagging engine, too, right? It takes time to spool up the engine. So that adds to the complexity. You have to think ahead a bit.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Admit I've done it once. When I first got to the squadron, it's called Ease Guns the Land. And so, you know, I came in the boat and I brought the power, I cracked the power back a little bit before I've been told to her that my aircraft had finished settling in. And that was a big faux pas, right? So especially as a new guy. So it's a very serious business. There's a lot of eyes on you and there's a lot of ways to screw it up. But the physical rush of like having a great pass and then like there's just a like the crash of into the boat and all that the physical sensation from it when everything's going great you know top of the world it's a great feeling”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the pilot himself. And it is a hard task to actually fly precisely enough to be good at it. So to fly quote unquote the perfect pass, you essentially have to fly your head through a one foot by one foot box. That's essentially the target you're shooting for. Plus or minus probably about five knots on airspeed, although we don't really judge it by airspeed. It's something called angle of attack. But generally, pretty tight parameters there. And you can do everything perfect and still fail, right? So when we go to touchdown, we immediately bring the power up and we rotate as if we were bouncing off the deck. And if we catch it, then we slow down. And then someone tells us to bring the power back, which we do. We don't do it on our own because it's such a violent experience. You can think you're trapped or not or something breaks and you bring your throttle back. That's a very serious thing. It happened to best of us, you know.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Essentially. Yep. Lots of ways to screw it up, but you'll know how to screw it up. But landing on the back of the boat is a whole different animal. There's a lot more variables. There's essentially one or two people responsible for the success of that. The landing signal officer who actually represents a team of specially trained aviators who are responsible for helping that aviator land on the boat.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Taking off is pretty easy. It's procedurally somewhat complex where there's a lot of moving parts almost like a clock. You know, you're almost in a pocket watch. Since then you're a part of the machinery. And so long as you press the right buttons and do the right things and you're going to go shooting off the front.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Crushed base, you know, so we're going to be, I think that as artificial intelligence and machine learning starts broaching further into the topic of science, the area of science, and we start working through new physics, we start working through, or I should say past the Einstein frameworks as we kind of get a better idea of what space-time is or isn't. We may have, we may find answers that we didn't know that we were looking for, and we may have more opportunity. And I'm not saying this is something I'm betting the farm on, of course, but maybe that's a road I want to explore on Earth instead of on Mars. Maybe there's technology that can be brought to bear with new science and harder engineering that is a road that doesn't go past Mars to get outside the solar system.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“If you asked me that five years ago, I would have said yes, I want to. In fact, I would like to die on Mars. Now, I have some hesitations, and I have some hesitations because I'm hopeful and optimistic. And I think that we are truly on the brink of a very wide technological revolution that's going to kind of move us how we used to move information and data in this last century. We're going to be manipulating and managing matter in that next century. And so I think that our reach as humans are going to get a lot wider, a lot faster than people may realize or at least”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Maybe recklessness, I don't know, but the willingness to have a conversation about UAP while I was, that led me to the decision to get out once I went there. And it kind of enabled me to talk about UAP more publicly. And if I stayed in the Navy, then I don't think that would have happened. I wouldn't have been able to if I went that route.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I wanted to be an astronaut. I wanted to take that route. I was going to apply to test pilot school. It just didn't work out for me. Ended up having a broken foot during my window. But long story short, I ended up after my time in my fleet squadron, and we can get back to the rest of the timeline if we want. But I went to be an instructor pilot instead, right? And then, you know, I was talking about this with a squadron mate earlier today about how, you know, I certainly wouldn't be talking with Lex today if I ended up going to test pilot school. I never would have had the.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wanted to be a part of. And it wasn't necessarily about the flying, but it was about the challenge. And like I said, as a person from a small town, you know, small high school, being able to get my hands, or even just near something of such technological significance was kind of empowering for me. And that's kind of what bore the love of flight from there, you know, becoming some level of mastery in the aircraft. It really feels like an extension of your body. And once I got there, then the kind of the level of flying kind of followed.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For me, you know, and I think I'm an outlier a bit, it wasn't necessarily the flying itself, right? It wasn't necessarily the soaring over the clouds and, you know, looking down at the earth from upside down. I came to love that, but it wasn't necessarily the passion that drove me there. I just had no exposure to that. The only exposure I had was reading and going in the woods and science fiction and all that. And so, you know, what seemed to kind of drive me towards that was just a desire to really be operating as close to what I thought was the edge of technology or science. And that's the path that I chose to try to get close to that. I thought that being in a fighter jet and all the tools and the technology and the knowledge and the challenges and failures and victories that would come with that just seem like something that I”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“One of the challenges too isn't just the algorithms of the autonomy itself, but how it senses the environment. That, of course, is going to be what all these decisions are based off of. And that's a challenge in this type of environment.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“To do some type of normal flying or reduce congestion around airports, but when we consider flying or formation in a tactical environment, we can be much more effective with non-traditional formation keeping or perhaps no formation keeping perhaps.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, and I've thought about automating that flight regime. But when I started thinking about it, I realized that all the formation keeping that we do is designed to enhance the aviators. Ability to maintain site, right? So we fly very tight formations so that we can go and weather and to reduce groups of traffic coming into the boat. We fly in one particular position so that all of the flight crew can look down the line and see the flight lead. So everything has to do with the two air crew visually maintaining sight of each other and defending each other, right? In a combat spread, I might be looking, I may be three miles away from him flying formation directly beam and looking around him to make sure nothing's there. So as I was looking into automating this process, I thought, well, you know, sure, it's easy to get a bunch of aircraft to fly in formation off each other, right? It's trivial, but why? What is the best formation? Why are they doing that? And that opened up a much more interesting regime of operations and flight mechanics. And that's when we get back to that kind of stochastic mindset where we can bring in aircraft close.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Not in this particular case because our situational awareness is based, it's predicated off of our flight lead. So in a sense, I'm just trusting his movements. And so he's my gyroscope. But you're absolutely right. If I was by myself, I would trust my instruments. But I can't just stop flying form and trust my instruments because now I'm going to hit him.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Instruments, even though it feels like it's spinning. And the same thing can happen when you're flying formation off of someone. Very dangerous and disorientating.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And the formation flying will get a lot better. And so, you know, there's a lot of stress associated with that. There's some interesting psychological or visual issues such as vertigo as you're flying. So if you're flying with him and then you fly right into a cloud, right? That's when it's very stressful because you have to be very close in order to maintain visual. And you might be on a thunderstorm, right? And so you have to be very tight. You might start raining. And then he's turning. But you might not even know that. You might not even be able to see that turn. And so all of a sudden, you might look while you're in a turn thinking you were straightened level and you look just maybe back at your instruments very quick and you realize you're like in a 30 degree turn and your whole concept of where you are in the world starts getting very confused and you immediately get this this sense of it's weird like i look at the hud and it it feels all my senses are telling me it's spinning but it's not you know and so i have to trust my”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very stressful. So I taught students how to do this as well. And so at our feet, we have two riders. And if I'm flying off of a flight lead over here, what you'll find a lot of times is you'll be flying, or like if I'm the instructor and the student's flying, I'll start to notice that he's having a harder and harder time keeping position. What I'll notice typically is he's locked out his leg. They'll lock out the leg that's closest to the aircraft they're flying against and push on the rudder subconsciously because their whole body is trying to get away from the aircraft because they're so uncomfortable being close to it. And so I'll tell them I can fix their form with just a couple words. I'll say wiggle your toes. And they'll wiggle their toes and they'll loosen all the muscles in their legs. They realize they've been locked up.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What's a whip? If this is a flight lead and this is dash two. Flight lead is rock steady and just doing his thing. And flight two is going to be working that triangle moving a little bit, right? And he has this small error bubble. He's doing his best to stay. But dash three is flying off dash two. And so his air bubble is dash two's plus his own.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Good question too because there's kind of rank in some sense. So if it's a four person formation, right, you have the division lead who's qualified to lead a whole division, but maybe the other ones aren't. And he has a dash two. And that's his wingman, essentially. And then in a division, there's two other aircraft. And then you have another senior flight leader that's the dash three position. And then you have dash four, the last one. And if you are all lined up on one side, like fingertip, one, two, three, four, that dash four guy is going to be at the end of that whip. So if you're flying formation, each one's making movements relative to the lead. Dash four is kind of at the end of that error. And so his movements are kind of like a whip. It's very difficult to fly in that position and close.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Correct. I'm flying like this for hours. It can hurt your neck. We don't like doing this as much, and I don't think it's just me, right? It's a weird thing where when you're like this, it's actually harder to fly formation slightly than here because being in line of your hand movements and of the aircraft somehow has an effect on our ability to be more precise and comfortable is strange.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A great autonomy point on the end of this I've thought about. So, but what we do, it's all manual. And so I'm looking at his wing and I'm looking at different visual checkpoints that form like a triangle, right? Like an equal loud triangle essentially. And then as that triangle, you know, is no longer equal, I can tell my relative position against that aircraft, right?”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So in VT9, where I was a student, there's two phases there's an intermediate and an advanced. Intermediate is getting very comfortable with the aircraft, and at that point, you truly hear, all right, you're going jets now, or you're going to go one of the other aircraft that land on aircraft carrier. I was told I was going, you know, jets at that point. And then we go into same squadron, same aircraft, same instructors, but it's called Advanced Now. And now we're learning how to dogfight for the first time. We're doing what we call tactical formation, which is just like aggressive position keeping. We are doing dog fighting and low levels and all sorts of great stuff. So it's really that first introduction to that tactical environment and really putting G's on the jet and on your body and maneuvering.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A flight dock up to a rocket sled and just see how much their body could take it. And he turned a lot of his body in the mush and the process of getting that science done, but he saved a lot of lives.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I can tell you what it's like from what I've heard, but I truly think it's one of those things that you just don't understand until it happens. It's like instantaneous about 250 G's, which is only possible because of inertia in our blood, right? So you can actually get like 250, 300 G's for like a few milliseconds and then it backs off to like 40 or 50 G's to get you away from the vehicle itself. And so you may lose consciousness if you do who knows where you wake up. You could be in a tree. You could still be falling. You could be in the water.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, you know, and then about two months later, we had another objection. About three months after that, we had another objection. So unfortunately, you know, it can be more common than people think.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Unloading the jet and then loading it back to try to get the gear out With a stick Came down, it came down halfway there, just on its own. So it came back around and we did like a safety trap in case there was a problem with the gear. That was my first flight, a little bit of serendipity, but I'm going to fast forward a bit and I went back to the squadron as an instructor about five or six years later. And I was an aviation safety officer at this point, which meant I was responsible for investigating mishaps. A student went in and he went in the back seat of a form flight, just like the one I went on. And he went out and he ended up ejecting on that flight same type of flight. They went out and they had a runaway trim scenario. And it caused the aircraft essentially just invert itself almost 180 degrees at about 600 feet over the ground. And they punched out just slightly outside the ejection window at about 300 or 400 feet or so, but they were completely fine.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I would probably just be too dumb to realize the significance of it because as a new student, you know, not really appreciating just what is ahead of me if we are ejecting. But at the time, it was just like wrote, right? Because I was back there and then I went from an observer mode to a I'm going to provide you the help that I can provide you as member of this crew mode. And so it was less about on this 20 mile trip and thinking about how vulnerable I am going through checklists. We're talking to people. We're getting ready. No, it wasn't fearful. And the whole time we were doing one of these to try to get one of the gear down.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As a new student in the back, it's amazing, right? Because photo op time and all this, like I'm seeing aircraft up close for the first time. It's awesome And on the way back, we couldn't get our landing gear down, ironically. So to make a long story short, because it's overall not that exciting, we couldn't get the gear down. We actually went to go do a control injection to the target area where that is. About 15, 20 miles to the north of the base.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But it's a jet, you know, so it performs differently, it's faster, right? And what that means, not just because it's faster, your whole mind needs to be faster. Everything happens faster in the air now, right? Those calms happen faster. Your landing gear has to come up faster. Everything just happens faster in a jet. And so it's a big jump. And I'll never forget going on my first flight in that aircraft, it was a formation flight for someone else. And I was just in the back watching, and there was an instructor in the flight. And so what that means is instructors in a single aircraft, and then there's three or four other aircraft and they're learning how to do joins, and they're learning how to fly in formation.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That was really interesting because before that, it was a 600 horsepower prop plane going from that to the T45 is one of like the biggest jumps in power in Navy machine operation.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the jet aircraft you get in before you actually go to the F-18. It is a carrier capable. So go to the boat for the first time in it during the day, drop fake bombs, do dog fighting, low levels, formation flying day and night.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I select a tail hook, which meant I could get one of those other ones, but 80% of them or so are jets. So I was in a good spot at that point. And that's when I went to Murdy, Mississippi to fly my first jet, which was the T-45 Guzhawk.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“What that means is that I was assigned actually a tailhook at that point, which meant I would go train to fly aircraft that land on aircraft carriers. And there's essentially three aircraft that do that at the time. It was F-18 and the E-2. The C2. C2 is kind of like the mail truck for the boat. E2 is one of the big radar dish on top. And then there's all F18s.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I joined. I went through my initial training. I went through primary flight training that all aviators go through. And I did well enough that One of the first lessons they teach in the Navy is that you can have a great career in the Navy and you can see the world and do what you want. But at the end of the day, it's all about the needs of the Navy and what they need. So they may not have the platform you like or you may not necessarily get to choose your own adventure here. But I was lucky enough that there was one jet slot in my class and I was lucky enough, fortunate enough to get it.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I joined the Navy in 2009, right after college. I went to essentially officer boot camp, officer canoe school. I applied as a pilot and I got in as a pilot. That was advantage of going that way as I essentially choose what I wanted. And if I got in, great. If not, I didn't get stuck doing something else.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I didn't think they were implying any particular nation state, frankly. Ambiguous fifth generation fighters, the location and the stockpile. I get how the story kind of insinuates certain things, but they seem to do a good job of not having anything directly pointing to another nation, which I thought was, you know, the good move. I enjoy these type of movies as an aviator and as an American, right? Because it feel good movie. We shouldn't be celebrating going to war with any particular country. You know, China Russia, whoever may have these weapons, it's fun to watch, but it would be an incredibly serious event to be employing these weapons.”
2022-08-01 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #308 – Ryan Graves: UFOs, Fighter Jets, and Aliens · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source