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Title: Bogeys and Bandits: The Making of a Fighter Pilot by Robert L. Gandt, Robert Gandt ISBN: 0-14-026412-4 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.48 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent detailed account of fighter pilot training
Comment: The book was a fascinating insight into the making of a modern Navy fighter pilot. As a former Navy pilot I found the detail very real. The female students and the other for that matter were quite similar to what I experienced as a flight instructor in flight training for the airline business. I encountered a somewhat similar cross section of pilot types and skills and gender situations in commercial aviation. Mr. Gandt defined some of the things I had witnessed. He has opened some interesting questions in regard to gender integration in the work place. It could be that some genetic differences should be considered for work assignments etc when the differences can raise questions of saftey. In all I found this a wonderful account of modern hight tech aviation
Rating: 5
Summary: Shift your career into high gear
Comment: Bogeys and Bandits gives the real life accounts of the training of F/A-18 Navy fighter pilots. The book jumps around each of the characters as they progress through their training -- from accomplishing difficult missions to getting medically disqualified. To anyone that wants to be or dreams to be a pilot or astronaut, this is a must-read. Perhaps the only downfall is that the story begins with all the characters already set for jet training. Personally, I would have liked to know how the characters also got into the training program for jets. Overall, the book is very fast paced and will surely enthrall you with the unbelievably exciting training and manuevers that these men and women have to go through to become FIGHTER PILOTS.
Rating: 5
Summary: Really great book - exciting and action-packed!
Comment: I loved this book and recommend it as the best in its category of books about Navy pilots. A lot happens to each of the pilots-in-training that are covered. I learned a lot about how pilots are trained and what their day-to-day life is like (very busy!). A lot of the parts were very interesting, such as when the author talks about pilots who quit the Navy after all the expensive and difficult training has been given to them, and about going in front of review boards in danger of losing your wings after a particularly scary performance in the air, or even giving up your wings voluntarily if you grow to fear the "smoking hole in the ground" too much (what you'll end up as if you crash your jet and can't eject safely.) Could easily be made into a great movie.
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Title: Vipers in the Storm: Diary of a Gulf War Fighter Pilot by Keith Rosenkranz ISBN: 0071400400 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Pub. Date: 24 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Fighter Combat: Tactics and Maneuvering by Robert L. Shaw ISBN: 0870210599 Publisher: Naval Institute Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1985 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Air Warriors: The Inside Story of the Making of a Navy Pilot by Douglas C. Waller ISBN: 0684814307 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: With Hostile Intent by Robert Gandt ISBN: 0451204867 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 10 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Acts of Vengeance by Robert Gandt ISBN: 0451207181 Publisher: Signet Book Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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