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Bogeys and bandits : the making of a fighter pilot / Robert Gandt.
- Title
- Bogeys and bandits : the making of a fighter pilot / Robert Gandt.
- Author
- Gandt, Robert L.
- Publication
- New York : Viking, 1997.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | VG94.6.S77 G36 1997 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xi, 324 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Veteran Navy fighter pilot Bob Gandt takes the reader along in the cockpit when he revisits his own elite training program after almost thirty years. A class of eight men and women is learning to fly the incredible FA-18 Hornet- deadlier, sleeker, and far more advanced than even the Tomcat immortalized in the movie Top Gun. As Gandt follows these students through school, indelible characters emerge: swaggering cowboy fighter jocks, crusty old Navy salts, a pair of.
- Wholesome twins from Middle America, a computer nerd, and two women pilots dealing with the post-Tailhook world of the military.
- Subject
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0670867217 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^^96051439^
- OCLC
- 36008607
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library