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Title: Eagles by Maggie Steincrohn Davis ISBN: 0-7701-0934-9 Publisher: Paperjacks Pub. Date: December, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $4.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (1 review)
Rating: 3
Summary: When eagles were young
Comment: A book about the challenges of flying the F-15 may not seem so original (though books and flight simulator programs concentrate on the F-16), but Eagles was written in 1978!! Thus, it presents the F-15 out of its normal context of flying in the Reagan years or against Hussein. Furher, "Eagles" isn't about flying the F-15 into combat, but against shoddy production, reliability problems of the ambitious new plane and the challenges faced by all fighter pilots. I'm not sure what "Eagles" is supposed to be about - or whom, since none of the several pilots ever rises to become the central charachter - but it wasn't what I expected, and that's praiseworthy. In short, several pilots try to come to terms with the new beast which has its share fo problems. The author cleverly telegraphs the nature of the new plane's problems before describing them - when a USAF PR officer lists the contractors behind the plane's major components, all seem to match those behind the real F-15, with the one exception of the guys who built the engines. Though there doesn't seem to be a plot, the author climaxes the action at a round of "Red Flag", the USAF's fighter pilot boot camp, where some fighter pilots are literally flown to death. the flying scenes, though not spectacular, are a change from what I've grown used to. Worth a look.
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