We are thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, dan pedderson. He went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the navys legendary Top Gun Program at navy air station in march 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the flying crews. He retired as a captain having accumulated 6,100 flight hours and 1,005 carrier landings. For those of you who know his story from the 1986 movie top gun, you will be happy to know that he is producing a sequel which is scheduled to be released in 2020. Peddersons book is available for purchase and signing following this conversation. And here to keep the conversation moving is larry burke, cure ator of u. S. Naval aviation at the national air and space museum. So now please welcome dan pedderson and larry burke. You ready to go . Im going to take about ten minutes to just set the stage here for larry and i to go back and forth in final preparation for the questions coming from you. The assumption is
Broadly the coowner along with my wife. In behalf of everybody here welcome, thank you free much for coming. It has been six years since the publication in a volume of the deliberation a trilogy. I wrote it that way earlier today and said i will not make that mistake again. His liberation about the l. A. Tramps and europe during world war ii, six years turned his attention away from the great work of the 20th century and started focusing on the great work of the 18th century that gave birth to this country. For those of you who have been wondering whether rick could do it again, whether he could bring the Extensive Research team attention to detail, narrative elegance to another green conflict, the evidence is now in, and yes indeed he has done it again. The british are coming which is volume one of what rick is calling the revolution a trilogy was released today. It is another magnificent history. Weaving together the perspectives of many characters of high lot along with meaningful a
[inaudible conversations] good evening everybody i am broadly the coowner along with my wife. In behalf of everybody here welcome, thank you free much for coming. It has been six years since the publication in a volume of the deliberation a trilogy. I wrote it that way earlier today and said i will not make that mistake again. His liberation about the l. A. Tramps and europe during world war ii, six years turned his attention away from the great work of the 20th century and started focusing on the great work of the 18th century that gave birth to this country. For those of you who have been wondering whether rick could do it again, whether he could bring the Extensive Research team attention to detail, narrative elegance to another green conflict, the evidence is now in, and yes indeed he has done it again. The british are coming which is volume one of what rick is calling the revolution a trilogy was released today. It is another magnificent history. Weaving together the perspectives
Before the open this morning along with twitter overnight in asia, you will see what was happening there the nikkei ended down by almost half a percentage point. Hang seng was down by 0. 7 shanghai in china, you did see stocks higher. Up by a quarter percentage point. In europe, the three major averages had all been in the green. The dax up by 0. 3 the cac up by 0. 4 the ftse up by more than that. Italy and spain stocks there weaker spain down by 0. 7 in the treasury market, again with the gdp number coming up later this morning at 8 30 the tenyear yielding 2. 069 everything that happened with the ecb yesterday what that means for the fed, well talk about all that coming up in a bit. On the squawk planner, we have first look at gdp in the Second Quarter thats on tap. Forecasters expecting an increase of 1. 8 after a surge of 3. 1 in the First Quarter on the calendar we will hear from twitter, mcdonalds before the opening bell next week it gets crazy. It is the busiest week of earnings
Off your cell phone or anything that might make noise during the program. Thank you for doing that. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy Fighter Weapons program. We are thrilled this evening to welcome the programs founder, dan pederson. He entered the u. S. Navy in 1953 and went on to become the senior officer in the group of nine men who formed the legendary Top Gun Program at Naval Air Station miramar in march of 1969. He served in combat during the vietnam war with the flying crews on the uss hancock and three on the uss enterprise. He retired as a captain, having accumulated 6100 flight hours and 1005 flight carrier landings while flying 39 different types of aircraft. For those of you who know pedersons story from the 1986 movie, top gun, Jerry Bruckheimer is producing, top gun maverick, a sequel in 2020. His book is available for purchase and signing following this conversation. Here to keep the conversation going is larry burke, curator of Naval Aviatio