Flying Camelot: The F-15, the F-16, and the Weaponization of Fighter Pilot Nostalgia

Contributor(s): Hankins, Michael W (Author)

ISBN: 9781501760655

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Hardcover

$32.95

Pub Date: December 15, 2021

Dewey: 358.430973

LCCN: 2021023404

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 9.20" L x 8.00" W ( 1.10 lbs) 280 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: "A study of the influence of fighter pilot culture and the technological development of the F-15 Eagle and F-16 Fighting Falcon fighter aircraft and the ensuing debates surrounding national defense strategy in the 1970s and 1980s"--

Review Quotes:

In this lively, absorbing account, Hankins demonstrates the influence of a specific culture that celebrated the fighter pilot as a "knight of the air" who thrilled to aerial combat.

-- "Foreign Affairs"

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