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

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

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Richard Pike (Author)  

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The highly anticipated follow-up to Phantom Boys! Once again Richard Pike has brought together brilliant, hitherto unpublished, accounts across eighteen chapters. With both British and American perspectives, Phantom Boys 2 is packed with exhilarating action. Throughout the book Richard Pike captures the drama and emotion of life in the cockpit in vivid detail. With such engrossing stories, readers will be gripped by this captivating book.
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. He and his wife live in Aberdeenshire.
  • Contributor: Richard Pike
  • Imprint: Grub Street Publishing
  • ISBN13: 9781910690390
  • Number of Pages: 184
  • Packaged Dimensions: 156x234mm
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: Grub Street Publishing
  • Release Date: 2017-07-07
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: 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. He and his wife live in Aberdeenshire.

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