| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
x, 485 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-470) and index. |
| Contents |
Haunted beginnings -- The big jock and the Presbyterian -- Fledgling -- K-13 and MiG Alley -- High priest -- Pope John goes severely supersonic -- Rat-racing -- Forty-second Boyd and the tactics manual -- Thermo, entropy, and the breakthrough -- P₈=[T-D/W]V -- The Sugarplum Fairy spreads the Gospel -- Pull the wings off and paint it yellow -- "I've never designed a fighter plane before" -- Bigger-higher-faster-farther -- Saving the F-15 -- Ride of the Valkyries -- The fighter Mafia does the Lord's work -- A short-legged bird -- Spook base -- Take a look at the B-1 -- "This briefing is for information purposes only." -- The buttonhook turn -- Destruction and creation -- OODA Loop -- Reform -- The great wheel of conspiracy -- Boyd joins the Marines -- Semper fi -- Water-walker -- They think I'm a kook -- The ghetto colonel and the SecDef -- Epilogue : El Cid rides on. |
| Subject |
Boyd, John, 1927-1997.
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Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography.
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United States. Air Force -- Officers -- Biography.
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Fighter plane combat.
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Aeronautics, Military -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0316881465 hardcover |
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9780316881463 hardcover |
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