August 22, 2024 • 11 mins
The USAF Thunderbirds perform at Offutt's air show this weekend
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It has been let's see here since two thousand and eighteen,
I think since off At Air Force Base has hosted
an air show. It's back this year. The twenty twenty
four Defenders of Freedom Air and Space Show is this weekend,
(00:20):
Saturday and Sunday at off At Air Force Base. The
air show is free and open to the public, and
this is something that you absolutely want to be a
part of because the United States Air Force Thunderbirds will
be in flight this weekend, including Major Bryce Turner call
sign Triple, who joins us now on news radio eleven
(00:42):
ten kfab Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Triple, Good morning gott.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
How are you gotta welcome you in here with the
anthem from Top Gun? Just curious do when you guys
watch Top Gun or Top Gun Maverick, do you watch
it and go, yeah, they got this right? Or are
you just laughing?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Uh? There's a lot of laughter, but there's a lot
of things that they got right as well. So it's
a really fun watch. It's definitely a Hollywood version of
how fire pilots would fly, but we all enjoy watching it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Oh yeah, it's awesome. Well, then you guys get a
chance to go up and do what you guys do
as the thunderbirds here, which I have a lot of
questions about. But first, I love talking with people in
your position about how you got your call sign. Tell
me about being triple.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh you bet. There's so just going back. Every fighter
pilot gets a call sign, and it's usually probably something
dumb you did, and then you kind of get a
nickname for it, kind of like you would in high school,
but it's a call sign and it kind of sticks
with you forever. In my case, there's an acronym in
(01:48):
there that talks about some of the dumb stuff I
did early in my career that I have since not
done anymore in the jet. But the other reason, the
one I like to tell is I get true because
I'm actually a third generation fighter pilot. So my dad
flew A sixteens and F twenty two's and my granddad's
who have fours.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
See, there are so many families that you know, like, hey, look,
my father was in the banking trade and I'm a banker.
So guess what you're gonna do? Ah, Dad, I don't
want to be a boat like what kid is?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Dad, I don't want to be a fighter pilot.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I mean early growing up, it was like, I
love roller coasters. I thought maybe I had designed some.
I love fire trucks. But then watching my dad fly,
I was getting to that ten to eleven years old,
It's like, yep, that's all I want to do.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Did any other of your friend's dad have a chance?
You know, It's like I was time to stand up
here and tell the classroom what my dad does for
a living. There like dad's come to class and talk
about what they do, and you know this dad's over
here is like I was the top real estate agent
here for this particular subset of my district for this
past year. Here's my little trophy. And then your dad
(02:57):
steps up there and said, I'm a fighter pilot. Did
anyone else have a chance?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well, I grew up on a lot of military bases,
so a lot of people's parents got to say the
same thing. But I'm definitely biased because I love the community.
I love frying fighter jets, so absolutely I always was
proud when he'd get up there and talk about his job.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, who was that like for you there? Like, oh,
there's your dad up there. I mean like we got
to go with dad to work and watch what he does.
I mean, I remember my father taking me to air
shows when I was a kid, and the wonder of
a child watching what you do. What was that like
for you to be that kid, especially if that was
(03:39):
your dad or grandpa up there.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah. Absolutely, my dad flew a lot of air shows
at one point in his career because he was the
demo pilot for the S sixteen out in the Pacific Forces,
and that's kind of where my mind got molded. And
I got to see the Thunderbirds a bunch. I got
to see all the jets a bunch, and it had
a deep impact on me, and it's definitely a reason
(04:03):
why I wanted to join the Air Force fly fighter
jets and ultimately become part of the Thunderbirds.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
One day myself talking with Thunderbird pilot Major Bryce Turner
call sign triple here on news radio eleven ten kfab.
If you were a guitarist and you're up there ripping
through a guitar solo, there's the crowd laid out in
front of you. They're going crazy and everyone's really excited,
big applause and all that stuff. You can see that,
(04:30):
you can hear it, you can feel it being right
there on stage as a pilot with a Thunderbird. You're
up there, you know, you kind of know that the
crowd's probably appreciating what you're doing then there, but it's
a different kind of feeling. How do you feel the
energy of the crowd while piloting one of these incredible planes.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So at under Verdaight, I'm actually in a pretty unique
position our demonstration. We have eight pilots total, but six
we'll be flying during the air show. Sunderbird seven will
be out there as our safety observer, and then at
Sunderbird eight, I'm actually kind of that guy on the stage.
So I'm announcing, I'm letting everyone know what's going on,
and so I get that direct feedback from the crowd
(05:13):
and it's awesome. You can feel it when the crowd's pumped.
I get pumped and we just have a great time
out there.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
How do you practice? You know, practice is just that
we're talking about practice now, is Alan Iverson famously say
we're talking we're talking about practice. So you know, in practice,
you're going to try some things that may or may
not work. You might screw some things up when you're
practicing these routines that the Thunderbird does. There's no margin
(05:42):
for error that leads to anything good. So knowing that,
how do you how do you do this?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So we are always getting ready for the show season,
so as soon as that last air show happens of
the year. So our last air show was in Orlando
last year. The next week we were training for the
next year, and so we brought in the new team members.
They'll fly together at least one hundred times before they
(06:10):
ever do their first show, and they'll start high, they'll
start wide formation, and then as they get more confident
in the jet and confident in being able to understand
how each other's flies, we'll get closer and closer and
lower and lower to the show that you'll see this weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
How do you like if you come to them and
say I have an idea for a type of flyover,
a formation or a stunt or something like that. Is
that something that you can bring to the table or
how does it work to try and orchestrate a new
performance in your show?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So we always want to bring the best show we
can We I'll say is during COVID, when we weren't
doing air shows, we got to sit down and take
a hard look at the show and kind of redesign it.
We actually brought in some Disney executives to help us
turn it more into a fire work show. Very engaging
and we tell a story now, so it'll be really
(07:04):
exciting the product you see. It's been refined a little
bit more since that twenty twenty show, but it's pretty much.
We have a nice set show yet American beauty, American enginuity,
and obviously raw power. It'll be a good time.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
What does it mean to you personally to be involved
with this, this very tangible performance in the name of
our nation, being a part of our United States Air
Force flying with the Thunderbirds and you know, being swept
up in the patriotism of what you do. What does
that mean to you, especially now being the third generation
(07:41):
of fider pilots in your family. What does this mean
to you?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah? Absolutely so seeing it growing up it was part
of almost the you know, the family path. But really,
like I said, going to those air shows, seeing the
Thunervers is what inspired me to join the Air Force.
And so now that I'm in the Air Force and
I've been flying at sixteen for the last eleven years,
it's really exciting to now be that person on the
(08:05):
other side of the fence where you know, maybe I
don't convince someone to join the Air Force in the military,
but I, you know, can encourage them to do something
greater than themselves, commit to themselves, to being the best
person they can be, and that's what it's all worth it.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It'd be great. Have you been here to Omaha before?
I know we don't have a ton of Air Force
bases around there, so have you been to what we
have here? A real special place called off It.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
This will be my first trip to Offit and Omaha,
so looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Awesome. What is the what are the feelings? If you know,
being at other Air Force base is about Offit and
Stratcom and everything we have here in the Bellevue, Omaha area.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, so off It is a real pivotal player in
the Air Force. And I don't know if everyone understands
that the platforms, the reconnaissance platforms that fly out of
there are crucial and especially a fighter pilots world, because
the finding fixing a target is really important. That goes
into mission planning. So with their information we can develop
(09:09):
a good target set so we're ready to go or
know where we need to focus our forces, and really
that all starts at off It with those aircraft that
are flying twenty four seven around the world.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I was always so proud to grow up here in
Omaha and know that we had off At Air Force
Base right here in the metro area. And I've really
enjoy getting a chance to talk with people who serve
on base. There's sometimes not here for a very long time,
but it's just great to have these wonderful heroes in
our midst here in the area. And it'll be great
(09:41):
to have you and your fellow Thunderbirds here this weekend
as well. Again, the air show is free. It's open
to everyone this Saturday and Sunday. It's the Adam Baker
Air Shows, the KC Flight Formation Team, Kevin Coleman, the
Red Bull Air Force Guy, California Tom Cruise going to
be there. That's not Tom Cruise, that's a California Tom
(10:03):
Cruise performance show. And of course you're United States Air
Force Thunderbirds featuring Major Bryce Turner call sign Triple. Can't
wait to have you here in Omaha for the air show.
The twenty twenty four Defenders of Freedom Air and Space
Show this Saturday and Sunday at off At Air Force Base.
It was a pleasure having you on the program. Thank
you so much for the time, and thanks for everything
(10:23):
you've done for our nation.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, thank you so much. In around two o'clock, if
you hear some noise, that's me arriving.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, I can't wait. Are you coming here today or yep?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh cool, We're about to step out to my jet
right now.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
All right, cool. I know of some golf courses in
the area. We can watch you come in. That'll be good.
All right, Thanks, Bryce, appreciated, Thank you. That is major.
Bryce Turner triple here on news radio eleven to KFAB.
If you want to go to off its website and
find it, it's probably easier just to type in Defenders
(10:58):
of Freedom air Show or offit air Show this weekend.
You'll find it. It's real easy, easy to google if
you want the official site. Offit dot af dot mil
slash air hyphen show what Yeah, I know, just google
air show to come up. Love those guys, incredible stuff
(11:21):
this weekend. Scott Vories, News Radio eleven ten KFAB
It has been let's see here since two thousand and eighteen,
I think since off At Air Force Base has hosted
an air show. It's back this year. The twenty twenty
four Defenders of Freedom Air and Space Show is this weekend,
(00:20):
Saturday and Sunday at off At Air Force Base. The
air show is free and open to the public, and
this is something that you absolutely want to be a
part of because the United States Air Force Thunderbirds will
be in flight this weekend, including Major Bryce Turner call
sign Triple, who joins us now on news radio eleven
(00:42):
ten kfab Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
Triple, Good morning gott.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
How are you gotta welcome you in here with the
anthem from Top Gun? Just curious do when you guys
watch Top Gun or Top Gun Maverick, do you watch
it and go, yeah, they got this right? Or are
you just laughing?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Uh? There's a lot of laughter, but there's a lot
of things that they got right as well. So it's
a really fun watch. It's definitely a Hollywood version of
how fire pilots would fly, but we all enjoy watching it.
Speaker 1 (01:10):
Oh yeah, it's awesome. Well, then you guys get a
chance to go up and do what you guys do
as the thunderbirds here, which I have a lot of
questions about. But first, I love talking with people in
your position about how you got your call sign. Tell
me about being triple.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Oh you bet. There's so just going back. Every fighter
pilot gets a call sign, and it's usually probably something
dumb you did, and then you kind of get a
nickname for it, kind of like you would in high school,
but it's a call sign and it kind of sticks
with you forever. In my case, there's an acronym in
(01:48):
there that talks about some of the dumb stuff I
did early in my career that I have since not
done anymore in the jet. But the other reason, the
one I like to tell is I get true because
I'm actually a third generation fighter pilot. So my dad
flew A sixteens and F twenty two's and my granddad's
who have fours.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
See, there are so many families that you know, like, hey, look,
my father was in the banking trade and I'm a banker.
So guess what you're gonna do? Ah, Dad, I don't
want to be a boat like what kid is?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Like?
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Dad, I don't want to be a fighter pilot.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I mean early growing up, it was like, I
love roller coasters. I thought maybe I had designed some.
I love fire trucks. But then watching my dad fly,
I was getting to that ten to eleven years old,
It's like, yep, that's all I want to do.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Did any other of your friend's dad have a chance?
You know, It's like I was time to stand up
here and tell the classroom what my dad does for
a living. There like dad's come to class and talk
about what they do, and you know this dad's over
here is like I was the top real estate agent
here for this particular subset of my district for this
past year. Here's my little trophy. And then your dad
(02:57):
steps up there and said, I'm a fighter pilot. Did
anyone else have a chance?
Speaker 2 (03:03):
Well, I grew up on a lot of military bases,
so a lot of people's parents got to say the
same thing. But I'm definitely biased because I love the community.
I love frying fighter jets, so absolutely I always was
proud when he'd get up there and talk about his job.
Speaker 1 (03:17):
Yeah, who was that like for you there? Like, oh,
there's your dad up there. I mean like we got
to go with dad to work and watch what he does.
I mean, I remember my father taking me to air
shows when I was a kid, and the wonder of
a child watching what you do. What was that like
for you to be that kid, especially if that was
(03:39):
your dad or grandpa up there.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Yeah. Absolutely, my dad flew a lot of air shows
at one point in his career because he was the
demo pilot for the S sixteen out in the Pacific Forces,
and that's kind of where my mind got molded. And
I got to see the Thunderbirds a bunch. I got
to see all the jets a bunch, and it had
a deep impact on me, and it's definitely a reason
(04:03):
why I wanted to join the Air Force fly fighter
jets and ultimately become part of the Thunderbirds.
Speaker 1 (04:08):
One day myself talking with Thunderbird pilot Major Bryce Turner
call sign triple here on news radio eleven ten kfab.
If you were a guitarist and you're up there ripping
through a guitar solo, there's the crowd laid out in
front of you. They're going crazy and everyone's really excited,
big applause and all that stuff. You can see that,
(04:30):
you can hear it, you can feel it being right
there on stage as a pilot with a Thunderbird. You're
up there, you know, you kind of know that the
crowd's probably appreciating what you're doing then there, but it's
a different kind of feeling. How do you feel the
energy of the crowd while piloting one of these incredible planes.
Speaker 2 (04:52):
So at under Verdaight, I'm actually in a pretty unique
position our demonstration. We have eight pilots total, but six
we'll be flying during the air show. Sunderbird seven will
be out there as our safety observer, and then at
Sunderbird eight, I'm actually kind of that guy on the stage.
So I'm announcing, I'm letting everyone know what's going on,
and so I get that direct feedback from the crowd
(05:13):
and it's awesome. You can feel it when the crowd's pumped.
I get pumped and we just have a great time
out there.
Speaker 1 (05:20):
How do you practice? You know, practice is just that
we're talking about practice now, is Alan Iverson famously say
we're talking we're talking about practice. So you know, in practice,
you're going to try some things that may or may
not work. You might screw some things up when you're
practicing these routines that the Thunderbird does. There's no margin
(05:42):
for error that leads to anything good. So knowing that,
how do you how do you do this?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
So we are always getting ready for the show season,
so as soon as that last air show happens of
the year. So our last air show was in Orlando
last year. The next week we were training for the
next year, and so we brought in the new team members.
They'll fly together at least one hundred times before they
(06:10):
ever do their first show, and they'll start high, they'll
start wide formation, and then as they get more confident
in the jet and confident in being able to understand
how each other's flies, we'll get closer and closer and
lower and lower to the show that you'll see this weekend.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
How do you like if you come to them and
say I have an idea for a type of flyover,
a formation or a stunt or something like that. Is
that something that you can bring to the table or
how does it work to try and orchestrate a new
performance in your show?
Speaker 2 (06:43):
So we always want to bring the best show we
can We I'll say is during COVID, when we weren't
doing air shows, we got to sit down and take
a hard look at the show and kind of redesign it.
We actually brought in some Disney executives to help us
turn it more into a fire work show. Very engaging
and we tell a story now, so it'll be really
(07:04):
exciting the product you see. It's been refined a little
bit more since that twenty twenty show, but it's pretty much.
We have a nice set show yet American beauty, American enginuity,
and obviously raw power. It'll be a good time.
Speaker 1 (07:21):
What does it mean to you personally to be involved
with this, this very tangible performance in the name of
our nation, being a part of our United States Air
Force flying with the Thunderbirds and you know, being swept
up in the patriotism of what you do. What does
that mean to you, especially now being the third generation
(07:41):
of fider pilots in your family. What does this mean
to you?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah? Absolutely so seeing it growing up it was part
of almost the you know, the family path. But really,
like I said, going to those air shows, seeing the
Thunervers is what inspired me to join the Air Force.
And so now that I'm in the Air Force and
I've been flying at sixteen for the last eleven years,
it's really exciting to now be that person on the
(08:05):
other side of the fence where you know, maybe I
don't convince someone to join the Air Force in the military,
but I, you know, can encourage them to do something
greater than themselves, commit to themselves, to being the best
person they can be, and that's what it's all worth it.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
It'd be great. Have you been here to Omaha before?
I know we don't have a ton of Air Force
bases around there, so have you been to what we
have here? A real special place called off It.
Speaker 2 (08:30):
This will be my first trip to Offit and Omaha,
so looking forward to it.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
Awesome. What is the what are the feelings? If you know,
being at other Air Force base is about Offit and
Stratcom and everything we have here in the Bellevue, Omaha area.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
Yeah, so off It is a real pivotal player in
the Air Force. And I don't know if everyone understands
that the platforms, the reconnaissance platforms that fly out of
there are crucial and especially a fighter pilots world, because
the finding fixing a target is really important. That goes
into mission planning. So with their information we can develop
(09:09):
a good target set so we're ready to go or
know where we need to focus our forces, and really
that all starts at off It with those aircraft that
are flying twenty four seven around the world.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
I was always so proud to grow up here in
Omaha and know that we had off At Air Force
Base right here in the metro area. And I've really
enjoy getting a chance to talk with people who serve
on base. There's sometimes not here for a very long time,
but it's just great to have these wonderful heroes in
our midst here in the area. And it'll be great
(09:41):
to have you and your fellow Thunderbirds here this weekend
as well. Again, the air show is free. It's open
to everyone this Saturday and Sunday. It's the Adam Baker
Air Shows, the KC Flight Formation Team, Kevin Coleman, the
Red Bull Air Force Guy, California Tom Cruise going to
be there. That's not Tom Cruise, that's a California Tom
(10:03):
Cruise performance show. And of course you're United States Air
Force Thunderbirds featuring Major Bryce Turner call sign Triple. Can't
wait to have you here in Omaha for the air show.
The twenty twenty four Defenders of Freedom Air and Space
Show this Saturday and Sunday at off At Air Force Base.
It was a pleasure having you on the program. Thank
you so much for the time, and thanks for everything
(10:23):
you've done for our nation.
Speaker 2 (10:25):
Yeah, thank you so much. In around two o'clock, if
you hear some noise, that's me arriving.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Yeah, I can't wait. Are you coming here today or yep?
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Oh cool, We're about to step out to my jet
right now.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
All right, cool. I know of some golf courses in
the area. We can watch you come in. That'll be good.
All right, Thanks, Bryce, appreciated, Thank you. That is major.
Bryce Turner triple here on news radio eleven to KFAB.
If you want to go to off its website and
find it, it's probably easier just to type in Defenders
(10:58):
of Freedom air Show or offit air Show this weekend.
You'll find it. It's real easy, easy to google if
you want the official site. Offit dot af dot mil
slash air hyphen show what Yeah, I know, just google
air show to come up. Love those guys, incredible stuff
(11:21):
this weekend. Scott Vories, News Radio eleven ten KFAB
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