
Eye of the Viper
The Making of an F-16 Pilot
Peter Aleshire(Author)
The Lyons Press
Published on 1. November 2005
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-1-59228-822-9 (ISBN)
Description
Hand-picked, pressure-tested, and full of astronaut gung ho, the young pilots of "Eye of the Viper" are poised for the toughest assignment of their career: the exhaustive six month training course at Arizona's Luke Air Force Base, at a cost of $2 million each. Luke, the world's largest fighter wing, is the only F-16 fighter training base in the United States, and each year it produces one thousand pilots who will fly the F-16 from Korea to Afghanistan to Iraq. But being among the elite pilots who are selected for the course is by no means a guarantee that they will earn the right to fly the F-16. Only a few select individuals will have what it takes. Award-winning journalist Peter Aleshire provides a full blast of the rigors and intensity of the course - the personalities, the incredible machines, the irreverence, the bravado, and the toughness, not only of the hand-picked students seeking a place in the warrior subculture, but of the veteran pilots who must teach them how to stay alive.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Guilford
United States
Publishing group
Rowman & Littlefield
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
b&w illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-59228-822-9 (9781592288229)
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11/2005
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Person
PETER ALESHIRE is an accomplished historian and investigative writer who has published four books on the history of the Apache Wars.