Fighters Over the Falklands: Defending the Islanders' Way of Life - Hardcover

Gledhill, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1781552223 ISBN 13: 9781781552223

Verlag: Fonthill Media Ltd, 2013

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Reseña del editor:

"Fighters Over The Falklands" captures daily life using pictures taken during the author's tours of duty on the Islands. From the first detachments of Phantoms and Rapiers operating from a rapidly upgraded RAF Stanley airfield to life at RAF Mount Pleasant, see life from the author's perspective as the Commander of the Tornado F3 Flight defending the islands' airspace. Font-line fighter crews provided Quick Reaction Alert during day to day flying operations working with the Royal Navy, Army and other Air Force units to defend a remote, and sometimes forgotten, theatre of operations. It will also look at how the islanders interact with the forces based at Mount Pleasant and contrast high technology military operations with the lives of the original inhabitants; namely the wildlife.

Biografía del autor:

DAVE GLEDHILL is an aviation enthusiast and aviator. Having been awarded his pilot's licence at the age of 17, he was commissioned in the RAF in 1974 and trained as an air navigator, before converting 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 on the Operational Conversion Unit. One of the first instructors on the new Tornado F2, he eventually became the Executive Officer on the OCU and OC1435 Flight flying the Tornado F3.

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• Verlag: Fonthill Media Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1781552223
• ISBN 13: 9781781552223
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256