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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.
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.
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Table of contents
- Prologue
- 1. Through the Canopy
- 2. The Making of an Instructor
- 3. The Pukes Converge
- 4. The Making of the Viper
- 5. Basic Phase: Learning to Fly All Over
- 6. Rage and the Female Fighter Pilot
- 7. Dragged Behind the Jet
- 8. Missing Their War
- 9. What’s in a Name?
- 10. The Sacred Naming of Names
- 11. Buster Takes Charge
- 12. Busted Rides and Basic Maneuvers
- 13. Making of a Wingman
- 14. And the Busts Keep Coming
- 15. Bombing and Fighting: Another Brick
- 16. Behind the Jet
- 17. The Future of Blowing Stuff Up
- 18. Learning to Kill People and Break Their Stuff
- 19. Midair Melee: Large Force Deployment
- 20. Large Force Mission: Clubbing Baby Seals
- Epilogue
- Afterword: Turning Writers into Pukes
- Bibliography