From F 4 Phantom To A 10 Warthog
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From F 4 Phantom To A 10 Warthog
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Author : Steve Ladd
language : en
Publisher: Air World
Release Date : 2020-09-30
From F 4 Phantom To A 10 Warthog written by Steve Ladd and has been published by Air World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with History categories.
This behind-the-scenes account of a USAF career is “an absorbing read, written with the classic humor fighter pilots seem to have” (Flight Line Book Review). From Baron von Richthofen to Robin Olds, the mystique of the fighter pilot endures. The skill, cunning, and bravery that characterizes this distinctive band of brothers is well known, but there are other dimensions to those who take to the skies to do battle that have not been given the emphasis they deserve—until now. You don’t have to be an aviation aficionado to enjoy Colonel Steve Ladd’s fascinating personal tale, woven around his twenty-eight-year career as a fighter pilot. This extremely engaging account follows a young man from basic pilot training to senior command through narratives that define a unique ethos. From the United States to Southeast Asia, Europe to the Middle East, the amusing and tongue-in-cheek to the deadly serious and poignant, this is the lifelong journey of a fighter pilot. The anecdotes are absorbing, providing an insight into life as an Air Force pilot, but, in this book, as Colonel Ladd stresses, the focus is not on fireworks or stirring tales of derring-do. Instead, this is an articulate and absorbing account of what life is really like among a rare breed of arrogant, cocky, boisterous, and fun-loving young men who readily transform into steely professionals at the controls of a fighter aircraft. “This book will appeal to a variety of readers with its Vietnam War combat stories and accounts of flying the Warthog in Cold War Europe. Fun, flying, international experiences—you won’t want to put it down.” —Aviation News
From F 4 Phantom To A 10 Warthog
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Author : Steven K Ladd
language : en
Publisher: Air World
Release Date : 2020-09-30
From F 4 Phantom To A 10 Warthog written by Steven K Ladd and has been published by Air World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-30 with History categories.
Fighter pilots! Images of Baron Manfred von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker in the Great War, Johnnie Johnson, Robert Stanford Tuck and Richard Bong in the Second World War, or Robin Olds in Vietnam, all spring to mind. Volumes have been written about them, past and present. Understandably, most of these revolve around the skill, cunning and bravery that characterizes this distinctive band of brothers, but there are other dimensions to those who take to the skies to do battle that have not been given the emphasis they deserve – until now. You do not have to be an aviation aficionado to enjoy Colonel Steve Ladd’s fascinating personal tale, woven around his 28-year career as a fighter pilot. This extremely engaging account follows a young man from basic pilot training to senior command through the narratives that define a unique ethos. From the United States to Southeast Asia; Europe to the Middle East; linking the amusing and tongue-in-cheek to the deadly serious and poignant, this is the lifelong journey of a fighter pilot. The anecdotes provided are absorbing, providing an insight into life as an Air Force pilot, but, in this book, as Colonel Ladd stresses, the focus is not on fireworks or stirring tales of derring-do. Instead, this is an articulate and absorbing account of what life is really like among a rare breed of arrogant, cocky, boisterous and fun-loving young men who readily transform into steely professionals at the controls of a fighter aircraft. From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog is a terrific read: the legacy of a fighter pilot.
From F 4 Phantom To A 10 Warthog
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Author : Steven K Ladd
language : en
Publisher: Air World
Release Date : 2022-05-30
From F 4 Phantom To A 10 Warthog written by Steven K Ladd and has been published by Air World this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-30 with categories.
Fighter pilots! Images of Baron Manfred von Richthofen and Eddie Rickenbacker in the Great War, Johnnie Johnson, Robert Stanford Tuck and Richard Bong in the Second World War, or Robin Olds in Vietnam, all spring to mind. Volumes have been written about them, past and present. Understandably, most of these revolve around the skill, cunning and bravery that characterizes this distinctive band of brothers, but there are other dimensions to those who take to the skies to do battle that have not been given the emphasis they deserve - until now. You do not have to be an aviation aficionado to enjoy Colonel Steve Ladd's fascinating personal tale, woven around his 28-year career as a fighter pilot. This extremely engaging account follows a young man from basic pilot training to senior command through the narratives that define a unique ethos. From the United States to Southeast Asia; Europe to the Middle East; linking the amusing and tongue-in-cheek to the deadly serious and poignant, this is the lifelong journey of a fighter pilot. The anecdotes provided are absorbing, providing an insight into life as an Air Force pilot, but, in this book, as Colonel Ladd stresses, the focus is not on fireworks or stirring tales of derring-do. Instead, this is an articulate and absorbing account of what life is really like among a rare breed of arrogant, cocky, boisterous and fun-loving young men who readily transform into steely professionals at the controls of a fighter aircraft. Phantom to Warthog is a terrific read: the legacy of a fighter pilot.
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Author : Everest Media,
language : en
Publisher: Everest Media LLC
Release Date : 2022-05-30T22:59:00Z
Summary Of Colonel Steve Ladd S From F 4 Phantom To A 10 Warthog written by Everest Media, and has been published by Everest Media LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-30T22:59:00Z with History categories.
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 The Air Force was able to produce 3,500 pilots in 1967, and I entered the service in 1966. My road to an F-4 cockpit began in 1966, my final year at the University of South Carolina, where I was enrolled in the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps. #2 I had passed the five specific areas of the Air Force recruiting test: pilot, navigator, academic aptitude, verbal, and quantitative (math). I was excited to be a potential candidate for pilot training and a chance to wear the coveted silver wings. #3 I was ordered to Moody Air Force Base near Valdosta, Georgia. I was disappointed that the base wasn’t conducive to the debauchery and uninterrupted hell-raising I had planned for my pilot training experience. #4 I rewarded myself by buying a shiny new British racing green Austin Healey 3000, which I could not afford. I set sail for Moody Patch, where the road to aviation fame and glory began in a classroom. I was introduced to the delights of flight theory, aircraft systems, and flight planning.
Engineering The F 4 Phantom Ii
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Author : Glenn E. Bugos
language : en
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Release Date : 1996
Engineering The F 4 Phantom Ii written by Glenn E. Bugos and has been published by US Naval Institute Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with History categories.
Conceived in 1953 in a chickenwire-covered cubicle known as the advanced design cage at McDonnell Aircraft, the F-4 Phantom II fighter-bomber was produced for 25 years, serving a full workload in Vietnam for the Navy, Marines, and Air Force, and surviving through the 1990s in the air arms of eleven nations. While most case studies of modern aircraft focus on the many ways the military-industrial complex goes wrong, this trenchant, invigorating study looks deeper at how those who built the complex intended it to work. Step by step the reader discovers how the relationships among parts, systems, procedures, economies, and missions were shaped by relationships among people - scientists, engineers, testers, program managers, subcontractors, military strategists, pilots and corporate leaders. Drawing on exhaustive research, including interviews with key players, the author makes a major advance in the burgeoning body of literature on technology management by showing how McDonnell worked through the problems of technical integration that plagued defense engineering in the 1960s and 1970s and led to programs full of "complexity". It is as much a study of how aircraft manufacturers and military officers went about their business as it is a life-and-times history of an important aircraft.
A 10 Thunderbolt Ii Units Of Operation Enduring Freedom 2002 07
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Author : Gary Wetzel
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2013-06-20
A 10 Thunderbolt Ii Units Of Operation Enduring Freedom 2002 07 written by Gary Wetzel and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-20 with History categories.
The A-10 was never a favourite amongst the USAF's senior staff, and prior to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 they had attempted to transfer the aircraft to the US Army and Marine Corps. Reprieved from premature retirement, the A-10 would see combat in the Balkans during the mid-1990s and over Iraq in Operations Northern Watch and Southern Watch until Operation Iraqi Freedom began in 2003. Following the 11 September 2001 attacks in the United States, the Bush administration responded with the instigation of Operation Enduring Freedom. A-10 aircraft first entered the fray during Operation Anaconda in March 2002. During Anaconda four A-10s flying from Pakistan provided 21 straight hours of FAC (A)/CAS coverage. The untold story of the A-10 in Enduring Freedom will be explored and presented as never before through first hand interviews and photography from those involved, along with official military achieves. This title is the first of three planned covering the combat experience of the USAF's A-10 Thunderbolt II units. Follow-on volumes will examine the role of the Warthog during Operation Desert Storm and Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Sierra Hotel Flying Air Force Fighters In The Decade After Vietnam
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: DIANE Publishing
Release Date : 2001
Sierra Hotel Flying Air Force Fighters In The Decade After Vietnam written by and has been published by DIANE Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
In February 1999, only a few weeks before the U.S. Air Force spearheaded NATO's Allied Force air campaign against Serbia, Col. C.R. Anderegg, USAF (Ret.), visited the commander of the U.S. Air Forces in Europe. Colonel Anderegg had known Gen. John Jumper since they had served together as jet forward air controllers in Southeast Asia nearly thirty years earlier. From the vantage point of 1999, they looked back to the day in February 1970, when they first controlled a laser-guided bomb strike. In this book Anderegg takes us from "glimmers of hope" like that one through other major improvements in the Air Force that came between the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. Always central in Anderegg's account of those changes are the people who made them. This is a very personal book by an officer who participated in the transformation he describes so vividly. Much of his story revolves around the Fighter Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, where he served two tours as an instructor pilot specializing in guided munitions.
Scream Of Eagles
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Author : Robert K. Wilcox
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-03
Scream Of Eagles written by Robert K. Wilcox and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-03 with History categories.
The bestselling author of "Wings of Fury" provides a dramatic account of the U.S. Navy's Top Gun fighter pilots and how they took back the skies over Vietnam. Filled with first-person accounts, this dramatic true story is now reissued with a new Foreword by the author.
From Both Sides Now
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Author : Harry C. Stevenson
language : en
Publisher: Newfawn Press
Release Date : 2017-05-18
From Both Sides Now written by Harry C. Stevenson and has been published by Newfawn Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-18 with Fighter pilots categories.
From the seemingly endless hot, sweaty, often bloody infantry battles in Vietnam to high-altitude supersonic fighter engagements in the Middle East lasting only seconds, Steve Stevenson can mix two seeming disparate careers into one. Not appreciated nor welcomed home by a mis-informed American public, Steve and the Vietnam era troops performed every challenging task assigned. Many of the Vietnam era problems were corrected in Middle East conflicts twenty years later by senior leaders who fought as junior officers in Vietnam.Known by his Air Force call sign ?Grunt? in F-4s, he pushed the importance of and need for Close Air Support, to an extent that occasionally got him in trouble. Steve takes you into the life of young paratroopers in combat, into the mostly untold lives and actions of US Special Forces, into the rowdy squadrons and cramped cockpits of fighter pilots. Along the way, he preaches Jointness and inter-service cooperation that is accepted by the ?boots on the ground?, but often opposed by the parochialism of senior leaders in all services.From the Vietnam War, Yom Kippur War, Turkish Invasion of Cyprus, Desert Storm to ?black? special ops, Steve volunteered for or was at the right place at the right time. He captures the comradeship, dedication, and loss of these warriors and their families, raucous parties and the heartbreak of friends lost.In every organization, Steve believes people are his greatest assets and rewards his troops, even when it may be unauthorized. But, higher headquarters will never know. Come along on the ride to look ?at clouds from both sides now, from up and down.'
Vipers In The Storm Diary Of A Gulf War Fighter Pilot
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Author : Keith Rosenkranz
language : en
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Release Date : 2002-05-15
Vipers In The Storm Diary Of A Gulf War Fighter Pilot written by Keith Rosenkranz and has been published by McGraw Hill Professional this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-05-15 with Transportation categories.
During Operation Desert Storm, Captain Keith Rosenkranz piloted his F-16 "Viper" in 30 combat missions. Here he recounts these experiences in searing, "you-are-there" detail, giving readers one of the most riveting depictions ever written of man and machine at war.