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Topgun days : dogfighting, cheating death, and Hollywood glory as one of America's best fighter jocks / Dave "Bio" Baranek.
- Title
- Topgun days : dogfighting, cheating death, and Hollywood glory as one of America's best fighter jocks / Dave "Bio" Baranek.
- Author
- Baranek, Dave.
- Publication
- New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2010.
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- Description
- xi, 308 p., [32] p. of plates : col. ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Dave Baranek writes of his days as a naval flight officer and a Topgun instructor, which made him responsible for teaching the Navy and Marine Corps' best fighter pilots. He also writes of his participation in the filming of the Hollywood blockbuster Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Faceoff at 700 MPH -- Joining the fighting renegades -- A pulse-pounding carrier landing -- Fight's on -- Rocket rider -- The topgun way -- Wild card bogeys -- Gunboat diplomacy in a jet fighter -- Murder board -- Our toughest fights -- Preparing for combat -- Hollywood comes to Miramar -- Make-believe turns real -- Waiting for the cork to pop -- Top Gun becomes a blockbuster -- Changing of the guard.
- ISBN
- 9781616080051 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1616080051 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010010098
- OCLC
- 464579706
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library