The Story
In 1999, when Serbia attacked the small country of Kosovo, the USS Roosevelt was steaming through the Mediterranean. In a matter of days, thirty pilotsveterans and rookies alikewere about to become the lethal tip of a fast, furious, hightech knife. And the Black Aces Squadron VF41a team of mechanics, technicians, electronic warfare specialistswould plunge their weapon into the heart of the enemy...This extraordinary book takes us into the world of Naval aviation in action: the training, launching, dogfighting and the feeling of a multimillion dollar F14A Tomcat pushed literally to its breaking point. From a harrowing account of a pilots ejection from an exploding plane to the deadly catandmouse games the F14s played with deadly enemy forces on the ground, BLACK ACES HIGH straps us into the cockpit, hurtles us through SAMlaced night skies, and goes behind the scenes to meet the fleshandblood men and women whose skill and courage reinvented warfarejust when we needed it most...
Description
In 1999, when Serbia attacked the small country of Kosovo, the USS Roosevelt was steaming through the Mediterranean. In a matter of days, thirty pilotsveterans and rookies alikewere about to become the lethal tip of a fast, furious, hightech knife. And the Black Aces Squadron VF41a team of mechanics, technicians, electronic warfare specialistswould plunge their weapon into the heart of the enemy...This extraordinary book takes us into the world of Naval aviation in action: the training, launching, dogfighting and the feeling of a multimillion dollar F14A Tomcat pushed literally to its breaking point. From a harrowing account of a pilots ejection from an exploding plane to the deadly catandmouse games the F14s played with deadly enemy forces on the ground, BLACK ACES HIGH straps us into the cockpit, hurtles us through SAMlaced night skies, and goes behind the scenes to meet the fleshandblood men and women whose skill and courage reinvented warfarejust when we needed it most...
