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America's Secret MiG Squadron Col (Ret.) Gaillard R. Peck, Jr

America's Secret MiG Squadron By Col (Ret.) Gaillard R. Peck, Jr

America's Secret MiG Squadron by Col (Ret.) Gaillard R. Peck, Jr


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For more than a decade at the height of the Cold War, the US Air Force operated a covert, top secret training program called Constant Peg. This book reveals what it was like to learn to pilot secretly obtained Soviet aircraft, enabling American pilots to train against the hardware they would have to face if the ColdWar ever went hot.

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America's Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project CONSTANT PEG by Col (Ret.) Gaillard R. Peck, Jr

For more than a decade at the height of the Cold War, the US Air Force operated a covert, top secret training program called CONSTANT PEG. In 2006 the program was eventually declassified - and the incredible story of America's secret MiGs emerged. For the first time one of the original Red Eagles - Col. Gaillard Peck Jr - reveals what it was like to learn to pilot secretly obtained Soviet aircraft, enabling American pilots to train against the hardware they would have to face if the ColdWar ever went hot. America's Secret MiG Squadron is the fascinating history of the men who trained to fly and maintain covertly obtained MiGs, for the first time providing an insider's perspective, personal anecdotes, and photographs, revealing how Peck battled bureaucracy and scepticism to ultimately establish the premier fighter pilot training center - the real Top Gun.

America's Secret MiG Squadron Reviews

Highly readable and highly recommended. - Model Aircraft. I can't recommend this book enough. If you are into your 'covert aircraft' stories, where the facts are even stranger than the fiction, then you'll enjoy this book. - Airfix Model World. Highly readable and highly recommended. - Scale Aviation Modeller International. Fascinating stuff. - Air Classics This book is highly recommended for modelers interested in modern soviet aircraft, and the history of USAF aggressor aircraft and tactics. - IPMS/USA As one of the project's masterminds and its first commander, Peck delivers an account replete with first-person detail... Air & Space/Smithsonian ... the fascinating history of the men who trained to fly and maintain covertly obtained MiGs, for the first time providing an insider's perspective, personal anecdotes, and photographs, revealing how Colonel Peck battled bureaucracy and skepticism to ultimately establish the premier fighter pilot training center -- the real Top Gun. --Savannah Jones, www.sirereadalot.org chapters pack in a history of the pilots, the missions, and the military concepts behind them, making this a fine survey of the little-known Red Eagles project recommended for any military holding. - The Midwest Book Review

About Col (Ret.) Gaillard R. Peck, Jr

Col. (Ret.) Gaillard R. Peck, Jr was a career officer in the US Air Force, after graduating from the Air Force Academy in 1962. He served at the Fighter Weapons School as an instructor in the F-4E for more than 2 years, and since May 1998 Peck has served as an F-15C academic instructor at the USAF Weapons School at Nellis Air Force Base. However, he is best known as the creator of the CONSTANT PEG programme that trained US airmen against a collection of MiG fighter jets.

Table of Contents

Dedication /Acknowledgments /Foreword /Prologue /Introduction /Chapter 1: Why the need for a MiG training program? /Chapter 2: How was the MiG airfield created in record time? /Chapter 3: Who built the airfield, restored the MiGs, and then flew them? /Chapter 4: The aircraft we flew /Chapter 5: The challenges we faced /Chapter 6: Red Eagles' stories/ Chapter 7: Was there a reward for the USA? /Chapter 8: Life after MiGs - the Aggressors /Chapter 9: Closing Thoughts /Postscript /Appendix /Glossary of Acronyms and Terms /Index

Additional information

CIN1472804848VG
9781472804846
1472804848
America's Secret MiG Squadron: The Red Eagles of Project CONSTANT PEG by Col (Ret.) Gaillard R. Peck, Jr
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20141020
352
N/A
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