Harrier How To Be A Fighter Pilot

Author : Paul Tremelling
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780241557068

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Harrier: How To Be a Fighter Pilot by Paul Tremelling Pdf

Discover the exhilarating first-hand account of one man's white-knuckle life as a fighter pilot with the Royal Navy Sea Harriers 'Searingly honest, keenly observed, well written and extremely funny' RAF NEWS 'Puts you in the cockpit for carrier landings, missile firings and some of the most intense close air support stories imaginable' MIKE SUTTON ____________ Few have what it takes to be a fighter pilot. From the cockpit to the crew room, the pressure is relentless. One mistake is the difference between life and death. But in the air, you'll never feel more alive . . . Paul Tremelling knows this better than anyone. With nearly 20 years of experience, he puts you in the pilot's seat in this thrilling first-hand account of a life in combat. From saving the lives of heroes under fire in Afghanistan, to performing a night trap on a pitching aircraft carrier deck, this is life as you've never experienced it before. Strap in, it's time for take-off . . . ____________ 'An outstanding first-hand account from inside the cockpit, told with flair and humour' JOHNNY MERCER MP, author of We Were Warriors 'The storytelling wouldn't be out of place in a thriller. If you are going to take one book on holiday it has to be Harrier . . . it's a superb read. You won't be able to put it down' Aerospace 'Mad, bad and dangerous to know . . . Tremelling lights the burners in an extraordinary memoir that leaves most military memoirs sitting behind in the hangar' JAMES BRABAZON, author of My Friend the Mercenary 'This isn't a book for the faint-hearted. It is a book for anyone who appreciates insight into how a fighter pilot trains, trains more, thinks (fast), handles the aircraft and onboard tech . . . then fights' FLYER 'Tremmers puts you in the cockpit for carrier landings, missile firings and some of the most intense close air support sorties imaginable. Insightful, laced with humour, and highly recommended' MIKE SUTTON, author of Typhoon 'An inspiring, enlightening and thrilling insight into how modern aviators earn their pay. The stories from Afghanistan alone are justification enough to read this brilliant book. A masterpiece' PAUL BEAVER, author of Spitfire People 'A memoir that reads like a fast-paced thriller. Harrier launches straight onto the classics shelf of aviation literature' JOHN TEMPLETON SMITH, author of White Lie

Author : Antony Loveless
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0778750965

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Fighter Pilots by Antony Loveless Pdf

Learn about the men and women who engage enemy aircraft, fly over enemy territory, and operate complex weapons.

Author : Jerry Pook
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781844682584

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Flying Freestyle by Jerry Pook Pdf

A British Royal Air Force pilot recounts his 25-year career in the cockpit during the Cold War in this military memoir. During a twenty-five-year flying career in the RAF, Jerry Pook has flown Hunter Fighter/Ground Attack aircraft in the Gulf, Harriers in West Germany, the supersonic Starfighter with the Dutch Air Force, the Harrier in Belize, Central America and the Tornado bomber at the Tri-national Tornado Training Establishment where he trained German and Italian pilots and navigators. Jerry had a long relationship with the Harrier Fighter/Ground Attack vertical take-off aircraft. This he flew in West Germany at the height of the Cold War operating from Wildenrath and off-base operations with Field Wing operations based in the fields and woods of the German countryside. Jerry saw action during the Falklands War when based on HMS Hermes and flying one of the few RAF Harriers in the Ground Attack role in support of the troops fighting ashore. He then enjoyed flying the American-built Starfighter RF 104G during a three-year exchange tour with the Dutch Air Force—he describes the Starfighter as “beautiful to fly, smooth and sophisticated, supremely fast and powerful—if you took liberties with it you knew it would kill you in an instant.” After three years with No 1 (Fighter) Squadron and again flying the Harrier, he moved to the then new Tornado, flying in its bomber role. This he continued to fly operationally and in the instructional role for thirteen years until grounded from military flying for medical reasons.

Author : Chris Burwell
Publisher : Grub Street Publishing
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781911667797

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Nine Lives by Chris Burwell Pdf

Chris Burwell charts one man’s career in aviation from joining the RAF in 1969 aged 18, to having responsibility for training pilots for the world’s major airlines nearly 50 years later. After training at RAF Cranwell and RAF Valley and a tour as a flying instructor on Jet Provosts, he joined the Harrier Force, flying on front-line squadrons in the UK and Germany during the Cold War and as an instructor on the Harrier Conversion Unit. Detachments to Belize in 1977, the Falklands (twice), ejection from a Harrier GR3, introducing FLIR and NVG to the Harrier front line and operational missions in Northern Iraq are all covered in entertaining detail. After 30 years of service, the author spent 12 years with Cobham, managing their Teesside base and flying the Falcon 20 on operational training for the military and the King Air 200 on international flight calibration tasks. Finally, he spent four years in Spain with Flight Training Europe (FTE) Jerez with responsibility for the flying training of a new generation of pilots. Through his experience as a pilot, leader and manager gained over many years, his valuable insights into military and civilian flying operations are both engrossing and noteworthy. Highly recommended to readers of both disciplines.

Author : Norman L. R. Franks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Airplanes
ISBN : 076071231X

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Aircraft Versus Aircraft by Norman L. R. Franks Pdf

"As soon as the first aeroplane proved its value in war it became a target- and the fighter pilot was born. Aircraft Versus Aircraft tells the fascinating story of these brave and tenacious men and the aircraft in which the fought from the early dawn of rudimentary tactics to the sophisticated technology of the present day. Includes strategy and tactics in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Falklands and the Gulf."--

Author : Adrian Orchard,James Barrington
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141889757

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Joint Force Harrier by Adrian Orchard,James Barrington Pdf

Days after arriving in Kandahar, the Harriers of 800 Naval Air Squadron were in the thick of fierce fighting. Armed with rockets and bombs, the pilots were flying crucial danger-close attack missions in defence of troops engaged in the most intense battles seen by British forces since the Korean War. While facing the constant threat of surface-to-air missiles, the British Top Guns knew that any mistake would have fatal consequences for the soldiers who depended on their skill and determination. Written by the Commanding Officer of the first Royal Navy squadron to deploy to Afghanistan, Joint Force Harrier is a compelling insight into the exciting world of modern air warfare.

Author : Michael Franzak
Publisher : Threshold Editions
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1451608071

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A Nightmare's Prayer by Michael Franzak Pdf

Winner of the 2012 Colby Award and the first Afghanistan memoir ever to be written by a Marine Harrier pilot, A Nightmare’s Prayer portrays the realities of war in the twenty-first century, taking a unique and powerful perspective on combat in Afghanistan as told by a former enlisted man turned officer. Lt. Col. Michael “Zak” Franzak was an AV-8B Marine Corps Harrier pilot who served as executive officer of VMA-513, “The Flying Nightmares,” while deployed in Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003. The squadron was the first to base Harriers in Bagram in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. But what should have been a standard six-month deployment soon turned to a yearlong ordeal as the Iraq conflict intensified. And in what appeared to be a forgotten war half a world away from home, Franzak and his colleagues struggled to stay motivated and do their job providing air cover to soldiers patrolling the inhospitable terrain. I wasn’t in a foxhole. I was above it. I was safe and comfortable in my sheltered cocoon 20,000 feet over the Hindu Kush. But I prayed. I prayed when I heard the muted cries of men who at last understood their fate. Franzak’s personal narrative captures the day-by-day details of his deployment, from family good-byes on departure day to the squadron’s return home. He explains the role the Harrier played over the Afghanistan battlefields and chronicles the life of an attack pilot—from the challenges of nighttime, weather, and the austere mountain environment to the frustrations of working under higher command whose micromanagement often exacerbated difficulties. In vivid and poignant passages, he delivers the full impact of enemy ambushes, the violence of combat, and the heartbreaking aftermath. And as the Iraq War unfolded, Franzak became embroiled in another battle: one within himself. Plagued with doubts and wrestling with his ego and his belief in God, he discovered in himself a man he loathed. But the hardest test of his lifetime and career was still to come—one that would change him forever. A stunning true account of service and sacrifice that takes the reader from the harrowing dangers of the cockpit to the secret, interior spiritual struggle facing a man trained for combat, A Nightmare’s Prayer brings to life a Marine’s public and personal trials set against “the fine talcum brown soot of Afghanistan that permeated everything—even one’s soul.”

Author : Mike Spick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015013987758

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Fighter Pilot Tactics by Mike Spick Pdf

Author : David West,James Field
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781404214552

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Fighter Pilots by David West,James Field Pdf

Sketches featuring three famous fighter pilots presented in graphic novel format accompany information about the history of fighter planes and requirements for the job of fighter pilot.

Author : Tim Ripley
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781502605139

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Fighter Pilots by Tim Ripley Pdf

Military careers are full of interesting opportunities. Fighter pilots are among the most selective careers in the military. This book tells what it’s like to be a fighter pilot, outlines the training you will need, and determines what it takes for someone to get to the top of this fighting force.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780332727

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The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots by Jon E. Lewis Pdf

From yesteryear's flying aces to today's top guns, The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots presents, in the words of the combat pilots who fought them, fifty incredible air battles that have shaped military history in the twentieth century. Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand accounts from all the great military campaigns of aerial warfare, including World Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. Page after exciting page of this singular collection brings into vivid play the exploits of such legendary pilots as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Douglas Bader, and Johnnie Johnson; the Luftwaffe World War II aces Heinz Knoke, Gerd Barkhorn, and Johannes Steinhoff; and forty other brave airmen from America, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and North Korea. Here, too, are the planes in which these pilots flew into modern historythe Spitfire, the Mustang, the Me 109, the Zero, the F-16, the MiG, and the Harrier. Together with the death-defying drama of combat, this volume vividly captures other facets of the fighter pilot's life, including the perils of bailing out in enemy territory, the daily horrors of internment in a Japanese POW camp, and a harrowing account of being shot down in a blazing Spitfire. The true-life aerial combat adventures in this stirring collection provide a vicarious, adrenaline-fueled expedition into the shell-blasted skies of war in the twentieth century.

Author : Julie Beyer
Publisher : Children's Press(CT)
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0516235400

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Jet Fighter by Julie Beyer Pdf

Discusses the history and development of the Harrier jet fighter plane, its design and function as well as some of the missions it has been on.

Author : Tug Wilson
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Confessions of a Flying Instructor by Tug Wilson Pdf

After surviving three years flying the RAF’s greatest and scariest fighter (the mighty Phantom), Tug Wilson tried his hand at teaching some of the flying skills he probably should have known when he was on the Cold War front-line. Despite being slightly more mature and having the responsibility of teaching, and looking after, trainee pilots and navigators in the cockpit of a Hawk fast-jet trainer, Wilson manages to almost kill himself (again) and at least one of his students. This book build on the insecurities, amazement, and pure unadulterated joy that the author felt while flying aircraft in his beloved RAF. It is an open and honest account of his professional and personal life, much in the style of his first book―'Confessions of a Phantom Pilot’ (which has been described as a “Cracking good read” by Tug, his family, and all his mates from the Phantom that were happy to be mentioned in it. Ever wondered what a fast-jet pilot goes through while learning the intricacies of air-defence and low-level flying? Or even how to cheat in air combat? ‘Confessions of a Flying Instructor’ is a personal examination of an often overlooked aspect of the RAF.

Author : Robert L. Shaw
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Air warfare
ISBN : 0870210599

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Fighter Combat by Robert L. Shaw Pdf

This book provides a detailed discussion of one-on-one dog-fights and multi-fighter team work tactics. Full discussions of fighter aircraft and weapons systems performance are provided along with an explanation of radar intercept tactics and an analysis of the elements involved in the performance of fighter missions.

Author : Robert Marston
Publisher : Grub Street Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781910690826

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Harrier Boys Volume 1 by Robert Marston Pdf

In Harrier Boys, Volume One: Cold War Through the Falklands, 1969-1990, Robert Marston, who flew Harriers for many years, draws together accounts from others who worked with this unique jet through its history. The excitement, camaraderie and pride of Harrier operators shine through in the personal stories of those whose lives were changed by their experience of this iconic aircraft, both on land and at sea. In this first volume, events of the Cold War years are brought to life by contributors including Graham Williams, who flew the Transatlantic Air Race, Peter Dodworth, a member of the original Harrier Conversion Team, Peter Harris, a participant in the early defense of Belize, Sir Peter Squire, OC 1 (F) Squadron during the Falklands conflict, and Australian Dave Baddams, who commanded the Royal Navy Sea Harriers of 800 Squadron.