Eye of the Viper: The Making of an F-16 Pilot
A History, War, Nonfiction book. I liked the book but I got lost in two of the chapters.
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, perhaps the most agile jet fighter ever sent into combat. Only a few select individuals will have what it takes. Award-winning journalist Peter Aleshire, given unprecedented access to the pilots and teachers at Luke, provides a full blast of the rigors and intensity of the course--the personalities, the...
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- Pages: 312 pages
- ISBN: 9781592288229 / 1592288227
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Great perspective into what goes into flight training. Content is good, writing style a little difficult to follow at times. I appreciated it as the mother of a pilot. A past love of mine was one of the pilots/flight instructors interviewed by Aleshire. I remembered his time at Luke AFB well but lost track of him after he was sent to Korea. It was nice to read that he has made a good life for himself as I knew he would. Aleshire effectively portrayed his intelligence, talent, charisma, and personality... I liked the book but I got lost in two of the chapters.
