Phantom Boys 2: More Thrilling Tales from UK and US Operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4

Richard Pike

Phantom Boys 2: More Thrilling Tales from UK and US Operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Grub Street
Country
United Kingdom
Published
7 July 2017
Pages
184
ISBN
9781910690390

Phantom Boys 2: More Thrilling Tales from UK and US Operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4

Richard Pike

The highly anticipated follow-up to Phantom Boys is here! Once again Richard Pike has brought together brilliant, hitherto unpublished, accounts across eighteen chapters. And now there is coverage of the Americans. So, with both British and American perspectives, ‘Phantom Boys 2’ is packed with exhilarating action. From combat in the Vietnam War to life after the Falklands War, readers will experience a variety of wartime and peacetime tales. An array of narratives from air and ground crew cover adventures across the world; from the UK, US and Germany to the Far East. It also includes the fascinating story of one female fighter controller’s chance to fly in a Phantom during the 1970s. Throughout the book Richard Pike captures the drama and emotion of life in the cockpit. With such detailed stories, readers will be gripped by this captivating book. AUTHOR: Richard Pike became a flight cadet in 1961, at the RAF College, Cranwell where, on graduation, he was awarded the Dickson Trophy and Michael Hill memorial prize for flying. In the early stages of his forty-year flying career he flew the English Electric Lightning before converting to the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom. On leaving the Royal Air Force he became a civilian helicopter pilot. His duties took him to a wide variety of destinations at home and overseas including the Falkland Islands not long after the end of the Falklands War. His last assignment was in Kosovo helping to distribute emergency humanitarian aid on behalf of the United Nations World Food Programme. Illustrated throughout

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