Our guest today is Dr. Michael W. Hankins. Dr. Hankins is the Curator for US Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps post-World War II Aviation at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum. He is also an Assistant Editor of From Balloons to Drones, a scholarly web journal for the study of air power, and host of the From Balloons to Drones Podcast. He is a former Assistant Professor of Strategy at the USAF Air Command and Staff College eSchool of Graduate PME, and a former instructor of military history at the USAF Academy. He earned a masters in history from the University of North Texas in 2013 and a PhD in history from Kansas State University in 2018. Dr. Hankins’ book, Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia was recently released from Cornell University Press, and we’ll be talking about this great book on the podcast today.

Technology, Culture, and Fighter Pilot Nostalgia