Air Warriors: The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.40 (518 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0684814307 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 416 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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In the tradition of George Plimpton, Waller offers a gripping and utterly extraordinary story that will inspire and amaze military readers -- or anyone who loves a heroic human interest story.. A thrilling, behind-the-scenes account of a remarkable group of male and female Navy Top Gun pilot trainees, whose stories provide an intimacy never captured in movies or on the television news.Investigative journalist Doug Waller, who wrote The Commandos after observing the training of special forces soldiers, now chronicles the training of Top Gun pi
And by showing how individual aviators have been unfairly tarred by the Tailhook scandal, Waller offers a powerful argument that repercussions from the infamous sex-capade have gone too far. Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. But once readers catch on, they won't want to put down this engrossing saga that will likely become an unofficial recruiting tool for naval aviation. He endured disorientation exercises in which he was deprived of oxygen, or spun in circles at nausea-inducing speeds. As reward for having passed those grueling tests, he was permitted to ride in the cockpit of most of the training flights recounted in this thoroughly documented work. From Publishers Weekly After much negotiating with top Navy bra
Whatta Great Book! Kindle Customer I can't say enough good things about this book 'cept short of joining the Navy to try and be admitted into their flight program, this is the closest you are ever going to be inside a fighter jet cockpit.Waller's writing style brings depth and personality to naval flight training. A splendid book recounting the trials and tribulations of becoming a naval aviator, not just a fighter pilot. Here, here.Semper Fi,F.Lee. OUTSTANDING INSIGHT INTO THE BROWN SHOE NAVY Living in the shadow of Naval Station Pensacola and surrounded by the strips of runway used daily in the training process I thank the author for his introduction to the people and the programs that we see and hear only as low flying aircraft.If you have ever had the hair on your arm stand straight up when you watch the Blue Angles perform I recommend you read this book to see how the elite got inside one of these 6 aircraft. May not be a lit. A poorly written book I don't know how this book got as good as reviews as it has, except that it came out quite a few years ago and maybe there weren't other books of its kind out there. Read Bogeys and Bandits instead, or Iron Claw. I just skimmed through this book and it was still a chore to read it. The author throws in a new character every chapter, without giving the reader any idea who this person is. There are better books out there.