Before Topgun Days - The Making of a Jet Fighter Instructor

Dave Baranek

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Idioma: inglés

Editorial: Skyhorse Publishing, 2016

1634506553 / 9781634506557

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Before there was Top Gun , there was the slightly less marketable business of being strapped into a jet, taught to do extremely violent things with mathematics, and expected to come back looking calm. Dave Baranek?s Before Topgun Days takes us into the making of a US Navy fighter instructor, back when glamour mostly meant a flight suit, a checklist, and the knowledge that if you made a mistake at several hundred knots the sea would not be writing a sympathetic letter. This is the story of learning the trade before the aviator mythology had quite been lacquered into sunglasses, volleyball, and men staring meaningfully at sunsets. Baranek follows the route from keen young naval officer to fighter pilot and instructor, through training squadrons, carrier aviation, dogfighting, weapons work, cockpit discipline, and the general naval habit of turning young men into professionals by giving them machines with alarming thrust and then grading their paperwork. The joy of it is that the book sits in the engine room of the legend. Not the poster, not the recruitment film, not the bar-room version with everyone leaning on a jukebox and saying ?bogey? with suspicious confidence, but the slog: study, drills, briefings, debriefings, mistakes, correction, repetition, weather, noise, pressure, and the tiny private terror of knowing that aviation is one of those hobbies where the exam is often conducted upside down. Baranek writes about the culture that produced elite fighter crews: the instructors, the habits, the standards, the little rituals of competence, and the strange fellowship of people who spend their working day discussing angles, energy, missiles, mistakes, and whether today is the day the aircraft carrier decides to look smaller than usual. It is a world where confidence is essential, arrogance is expensive, and ?nearly right? is not a phrase anyone wants floating around the cockpit. For readers of naval aviation, Cold War flying, fighter tactics, or the pre-cinema reality behind the Topgun glow, this is a splendidly hands-on account. It has jets, carriers, training, jargon, danger, and that particular military combination of terrifying seriousness and institutional absurdity, where life-and-death decisions coexist with acronyms, forms, and someone insisting the briefing starts on time. Good copy, as sold by Crappy Old Books: presentable, readable, and cleared for another sortie. It may not come with aviator sunglasses, a call sign, or permission to buzz the tower, but it does offer the next best thing: a front-row seat to the bit before the myth learned to comb its hair.

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Título
Before Topgun Days - The Making of a Jet Fighter Instructor
Autor
Dave Baranek
Editorial
Skyhorse Publishing
Año de publicación
2016
Estado
Fine
Encuadernación
Hardback
Idioma
inglés
ISBN 10
1634506553
ISBN 13
9781634506557

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