LISTENER NOTE: This is a particularly long show. If you’d like to skip around, the major segment start points are as follows: Aiello Interview begins at 9:52. Pro-Touring Segment begins at 50:18.

This weeks interview is with previous show guest Vincent Aiello, a ’67 Mustang driving, F-18 flying fighter pilot friend, and former show guest from many years back (Episode #91). My wife and I were invited to attend his retirement ceremony in San Diego over the New Years weekend, and to say it was an amazingly moving ceremony would be a massive understatement. It was incredibly moving, inspiring, patriotic, humbling, and kick-butt all at the same time. The ceremony was held aboard the U.S.S. Carl Vinson, and as good fortune would have it it was the same carrier that his very first landing in a fighter was on! Vincent spend nearly 25 years in the cockpit of high performance aircraft in the service of his country, and the ceremony touched on all of the unbelievable aspects of his life that happened to accomplish his unbelievable dream.

-Rob Kibbe