America’s Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project CONSTANT PEG - Couverture souple

Peck Jr, Col (Ret.) Gaillard R.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472804848 ISBN 13 : 9781472804846

Editeur : Osprey Publishing, 2014

Synopsis

For more than a decade at the height of the Cold War, the US Air Force operated a covert, top secret training program called CONSTANT PEG. In 2006 the program was eventually declassified - and the incredible story of America's secret MiGs emerged. For the first time one of the original "Red Eagles" - Col. Gaillard Peck Jr - reveals what it was like to learn to pilot secretly obtained Soviet aircraft, enabling American pilots to train against the hardware they would have to face if the ColdWar ever went hot. America's Secret MiG Squadron is the fascinating history of the men who trained to fly and maintain covertly obtained MiGs, for the first time providing an insider's perspective, personal anecdotes, and photographs, revealing how Peck battled bureaucracy and scepticism to ultimately establish the premier fighter pilot training center - the real Top Gun.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Col. (Ret.) Gaillard R. Peck, Jr was a career officer in the US Air Force, after graduating from the Air Force Academy in 1962. He served at the Fighter Weapons School as an instructor in the F-4E for more than 2 years, and since May 1998 Peck has served as an F-15C academic instructor at the USAF Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base. However, he is best known as the creator of the CONSTANT PEG programme that trained US airmen against a collection of MiG fighter jets.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Osprey Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472804848
• ISBN 13: 9781472804846
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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