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Title: Flight of the Lavi: Inside a U.S.-Israeli Crisis by Dov S. Zakheim, Dov Zakehim, Caspar Weinberger ISBN: 1-57488-065-9 Publisher: Brasseys, Inc. Pub. Date: October, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 1
Summary: A Book Written by Accountants, for Accountants
Comment: If you are an aviation enthusiast, looking for the story behind this fighter plane's abortive development, then you have come to the wrong place. This book deals only incidentally with the Lavi fighter program. It could better be described as "How a group of accountants, with no knowledge of aircraft or combat experience, conspired to shut down an airplane development program that they didn't understand." What disturbs me most about this account is that the author and his team made no attempt to understand what the Lavi was, what aspects made it unique, or why it was being built. As "alternatives" to the Lavi, they offered up the F-15, F-16, F/A-18, F-20, and the Harrier, as if all of the above, radically different airplanes, were equivalent to each other, equally suited to the same role and mission. Since when would any air force buy a Harrier that wanted an F-16? Or vice versa? Not all pegs fit a round hole. I happen to have ordered an early copy of this book, and in the process discovered to my chagrin that the publisher's original title for this book was not "Flight of the Lavi", but "Stop the Lavi", a title that is much more in line with the author's true aims. What emerges from this book is not a picture of what the Lavi fighter was, or why it was built, but rather a narrow tale of political intrigue as told from the point of view of one of the participants. If the author had spent as much time attempting to understand what the Lavi was, as he does attempting to impress his readers with how many times he met Yitzhak Rabin (who was later to be assassinated as Prime Minister of Israel), the outcome of this story may have been entirely different. Sadly, the full story of the Lavi has not yet been told, and is certainly not to be found between these pages.

Rating: 5
Summary: GREAT BOOK
Comment: THIS A VERY GOOD BOOK IT HAS EVERYTHING ABOUT THE LAVI AND NOT ONLY THAT IT IS THE BEST WAY 4 U TO FIND OUT HOW THE GOVERMENT WORKS BUT NO PHOTOS.I WOULD RATE IT 5 IF IT WOULD HAVE PHOTOS.