Book Review - Viper Pilot
 

VERY GOOD book.....written by a pilot, his style of writing allows the reader to quickly put himself into the seat of the action. I read this book in one day.

Viper Pilot: A Memoir of Air Combat: Dan Hampton: 9780062130358: Amazon.com: Books

I agree. Its nice to have some good military aviation books that are about recent events. Magnum i also a great read about the gulf war. Fighter Pilot, the story of Robim Olds, is still the best bokk ever writen. Olds is the real deal and makes the fictional move Top Gun look like the Mickey Mouse show.

Book Review - Viper Pilot
 

I'll have to buy and read it. Thx for posting!

Not terribly recent, but a decent read. Written by a friend.

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+1 on Jim's book.

Due to TOS, I won't say why I would never read Viper Pilot. Save your money and time for Robin Olds, Bud Day, John Boyd, or "Bury Us Upside Down," the Misty FAC story.

if you can't say it specifically, can you guide us to our own conclusion why you won't read Viper Pilot ?

;)

+1,000,000 for Robin Olds' book... Can't recommend that enough.

I've been holding off on Viper Pilot until I hear some more reviews, I'll probably pick it up here soon though.

Here are some others I would recommend:
Sunday Punchers (about an A-6 attack squadron in the Vietnam war)
First In Last Out (About the Wild Weasels in Vietnam)
Thud Ridge (About Major Jack Broughton's time in 105s during Vietnam)
Warthog (Flying the A-10 in the Gulf War)
Black Aces High (Story of the first USN "Bombcat" squadron over Kosovo)
Hornets Over Kuwait (About bug-drivers during ODS)
A Nightmare's Prayer (A recent book I read... Pretty good account of CAS in Afghanistan)

...And this list doesn't even touch all of the great WW2 books out there. Anything written by Martin Bowman is a guaranteed quality read.

Personal knowledge of some of his "service," and self-aggrandizement. Selective historical revisionism.

I too have heard this from some viper-drivers I talked to recently... One of the reasons I have been waiting to hear from others about this book.

he plays up (or milks?) the Purple Heart award, altho he also admits either in the book or maybe on the internet somewhere that it was from flying debris that hit him when a wall or something got blown up by car bomb or IED or something. In other words, it wasn't like he was driving a Humvee into enemy territory and took rounds

all in all the book was a good read, I read it for free at the bookstore in one sitting. didn't intend to, just sat down to peruse it and I ended up reading it right then and there

What I'm referring to would never be in the book....he would hope and pray they never saw the light of day, again.

I'm sure it's an entertaining read. Imagine a book by Jeff Smisek titled "UAL CEO!," replete with jacket-cover photo of Jeff in a g-suit, with helmet, standing on the trading-floor of Wall Street, with a trail of $100-bills littering the floor behind him, and his VP-minions grovelling at his feet. You'd read a book like that and say "Wow, Jeff is an awesome guy. He orchestrated the biggest airline merger in history, is CEO of the airline, and his employees love him because he refers to them, and himself, as 'co-workers.'"

Except, you wouldn't, because you'd say "Wait a minute, I know the truth about this guy....."

roger that