In this episode of the Anthony Cumia Show on the Red Apple Podcast Network, John Katz joins me to talk about his career in the aviation industry. John has been involved in the airline industry for over 40 years and has a lot of experience in the supersonic transport industry. He has also been involved with some of the most successful companies in the world, including British Airways, JetBlue, and NetJets.
00:05:40.540And half the British Airways terminal at John F. Kennedy Airport was ours.
00:05:46.000So we had reciprocal agreements with British Airways.
00:05:49.460So it was Capital Airlines was our company, and we operated DC-8s, DC-10s, Airbus 300s, and I used to fly some of them, but I didn't fly them for passenger runs because I wasn't qualified to fly them, but I flew them on maintenance runs.
00:06:10.160Okay, yeah, yeah, you got to take it somewhere for work, you would fly it, yeah.
00:06:14.840Yeah. And the same thing with the other company, we called it United Jet Fleet before it became NetJets. And we flew, you know, I used to fly them, but not on paid revenue flights. I used to fly them for, you know, for our own flights.
00:06:31.740and now the concord it yes it went into production i mean i'm trying to remember
00:06:39.840uh and i think the first flew in 1976 i i believe and it was a centennial year here in
00:06:50.000in the united states very big patriotic great airplane yes great airplane it flew
00:09:27.900But I think we wasted so much time and resources on the shuttle program and not just pursuing going to Mars.
00:09:35.560yeah we we did nothing in 50 years yeah so disappointing and now that they want to create
00:09:44.380another supersonic uh transport yeah what do you think about that now is moving forward and
00:09:51.120they're trying to be able to do it with no sonic booms now how do you do that it's just uh it's
00:09:58.380nature if something goes beyond the speed of sound design maybe it's the design of the aircraft
00:10:04.980Maybe it's a I don't know. I haven't been able I haven't been up to it lately, but it's it's a very disappointing design because I looked into part of it.
00:10:15.720Those airplanes are not as fast as the Concorde and they should be able to make it faster and better and not just another just nothing.
00:10:27.780I mean, I think New York, London on the new one is maybe four hours, which is, you know, you want to be able, you can do hypersonic jets right now, and you can do New York, Hong Kong in three hours, four hours.
00:10:53.760Well, you know, back in the 1950s and 60s, when we started to design the good old days, John, you know, we had we had we we had the German scientists.
00:11:08.080Yes. The German scientists, the German Jewish scientists were so much more advanced.
00:15:09.460We have to find out who at the White House was pressing those buttons, allowing criminals in into our cities, our states.
00:15:18.240I can understand inviting the migrants in because what the Democrats wanted, they were falling short of congressional votes in New York, Illinois, California.0.87
00:15:31.320Yeah, they need the census to show that there's people that are Democrats.0.68
00:15:42.700Yeah, that's the only reason they were doing this.0.85
00:15:46.840But Anthony, bring in the migrants that want to work hard.0.99
00:16:59.380Oh, yeah, yeah. No, they're brutal over there. Do you think, John, do you think we're somehow at war with China right now? Because I think we're at war. Maybe there aren't missiles and bullets flying, but I think China is warring with us.