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Phantom in Focus: A Navigator´s Eye on Britain´s Cold War Warrior
David Gledhill
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Description for Phantom in Focus: A Navigator´s Eye on Britain´s Cold War Warrior
Hardcover. The story of life on the frontline during the Cold War told in the words of a navigator who flew the iconic jet. Unique pictures show the Phantom in its true environment and show why the Phantom was the envy of NATO. It tells the inside story of some of the early problems, how the aircraft developed and events which shaped its history. Num Pages: 288 pages, 100 Black and white and 150 colour photographs. BIC Classification: JWMV3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 179 x 27. Weight in Grams: 1034.
Have you ever wondered what it was like to fly the Phantom? This is not a potted history of an aeroplane, nor is it Hollywood glamour as captured in Top Gun. This is the story of life on the frontline during the Cold War told in the words of a navigator who flew the iconic jet. Unique pictures, many captured from the cockpit, show the Phantom in its true environment and show why for many years the Phantom was the envy of NATO. It also tells the inside story of some of the problems which plagued the Phantom in its ... Read more
Have you ever wondered what it was like to fly the Phantom? This is not a potted history of an aeroplane, nor is it Hollywood glamour as captured in Top Gun. This is the story of life on the frontline during the Cold War told in the words of a navigator who flew the iconic jet. Unique pictures, many captured from the cockpit, show the Phantom in its true environment and show why for many years the Phantom was the envy of NATO. It also tells the inside story of some of the problems which plagued the Phantom in its ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Fonthill Media
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Toadsmoor Road, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781550489
SKU
V9781781550489
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Ref
99-50
About David Gledhill
DAVE GLEDHILL is an aviation enthusiast and aviator. Already holding a private pilots licence at the age of seventeen, he was commissioned in the RAF in 1974, and after training as an air navigator, converted to the F4 Phantom in the Air Defence role. After tours in the UK and Germany, he went on to be a radar tactics instructor ... Read more
Reviews for Phantom in Focus: A Navigator´s Eye on Britain´s Cold War Warrior
...contains a large amount of good pictures in colour and black and white, which partly have been shot by the author himself and printed on good quality paper. They are pictures of the Phantom's in action but also on the ground, intercepted Russian planes, missiles, cockpit, target playing Canberra's, low flying and used flying maps etc, etc. The innumerable pictures ... Read more