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Eye of the Viper
Peter Aleshire
其他書名
The Making of an F-16 Pilot
出版Rowman & Littlefield, 2005-11-01
主題History / Military / Aviation & SpaceHistory / Military / General
ISBN15992172289781599217222
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=7c1kYLn6-O0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.