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Title: AIR WARRIORS : THE INSIDE STORY OF THE MAKING OF A NAVY PILOT by Douglas Waller ISBN: 0-684-81430-7 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 02 June, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (23 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Know more about the training of a Navy fighter pilot
Comment: This is a very good book from Douglas C. Waller. He puts us in the pants of some naval aviators he interviewed during their mission in being a navy fighter pilot. He follows some students in their preparation at Pensacola base in Florida, describing all the obstacles being a figter pilot poses in their way. He takes us through all the steps, describing why they have to go through that, and what is the relation between the exercise and the real life. I recommend it for people who want to be a Navy fighter pilot and wants to know more about all the requirements. A problem in Waller's writing is that he talks too much about the life of the student, not enough on the training itself...
Rating: 5
Summary: Whatta Great Book!
Comment: 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
Rating: 2
Summary: Very poorly written - a mess!
Comment: 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 even 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. We follow the character through one segment of training, getting dunked in water and having to free yourself from your restraints or something similar, and then we never see this character again. I was struck by how each character he chose to follow was a PC character (a rare lady pilot or black pilot), while he complained bitterly in his book about how post-Tailhook PC-ness was ruining the Navy and causing loads of pilots to quit and go work for the airlines instead. Also, I was offended by his overuse of the word "bimbo." There's an entire chapter devoted to slamming all the "bimbos" who party with the pilots in Florida, as if we should feel sorry for the pilots! This after he writes about the Tailhook incident, pilots groping ladies shoved down a hailway, and explains how this behavior was considered normal in the historically raucous and crude Navy, until one female pilot complained and the story broke in the news.
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