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 enlarge | Author: Peter Aleshire
Publisher: The Lyons Press
Category: Book
List Price: $22.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 557148
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 312
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 1592282601
Dewey Decimal Number: 358.4383023
EAN: 9781592282609
ASIN: 1592282601
Publication Date: August 1, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: (08) Excellent condition
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 It missed the point October 20, 2005
4 out of 8 found this review helpful
Reading this book is like watching Iron Eagle or Top Gun, I think we are a little over the 80s, this book is intended for people that definitively likes that hollywood accuracy to depict stories.
I guess this wasn't what I was looking, maybe it's a good book for someone who doesn't know much about the military. For my part I was looking to track the path of the F-16 Pilot training and many other details. I'm a very avid fan of the viper and I have been fortunate to see vipers from 4 different countries.
All have to say that I am still looking for such book. I'm really not very interested in knowing too much about partying and rituals. And being myself in the military I know that it's a very small part of the whole picture.
A Little Too dramatic book July 22, 2005
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
I've bought this book because I love military aviation. Having read a lot of other books about the subject, after reading this I felt like I had watched a cheap Hollywood movie...
I didn't like Mr. Aleshire writing style. He uses too many superlative words and after a while it becomes alittle boring. OK...they are the best, the super, the smartest, all the "est" stuff. But it is not necessary to repeat it all the time.
I've learned many things, and I admire even more those who become Viper Drivers, but the writing style could be a little different...
 Kevin Quattlebaum is a whiney loser! March 7, 2005
13 out of 24 found this review helpful
I know Kevin, having trained him to be a fighter pilot. He really does suck. Stop your whining you incompetent tool.
 Fun, quick read about fighter pilot training! December 8, 2004
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I love all fighter pilot books, and this one is good (my all-time favorite is still Bogeys and Bandits). The author describes about 5 new pilots in training and about 5 of their flight instructors at an Air Force base in Arizona. The book just came out, so the stories are current. There's the surfer dude pilot, the rare woman pilot, the yes-sir/no-sir military guy pilot and so on. The author spends most of his time describing their actual flights as they learn how to fly the Viper (F-16) so you get a good feel for their mistakes and the difficulty in learning all the complexities of not only flying the jet but using it's missiles and bombs. The author is plenty gung-ho about the fighter pilot world - describing them as "ball-busting badasses" on the 1st page. I don't think the previous 1-star reviews by a pilot and the pilot's wife who think the author dissed him in the book are relevent to the book's actual goodness or badness - most people who read this book will enjoy it.
Top Notch October 2, 2004
15 out of 18 found this review helpful
I'm currently a Viper pilot and I think this book was awesome. Sure there are some inaccuracies, but Mr. Aleshire did a good job overall capturing the feelings and the attitude of a young fighter pilot.
Capt Quattlebaum: just because you don't know there is a rift in your class doesn't mean it isn't there. My class had a contentious assignment process and guess what - hard feelings were there until the day we graduated.
Yes, being an F-16 pilot is about hard work and dedication, but it's a damn good time, too.
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