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The autobiography of one of americas most decorated combat pilots pdf. Viper pilot dan hampton ebook harpercollins publishers. Pilots are officers in the colonial fleet trained and qualified to operate a viper fighter or a raptor multipurpose vehicle pilot candidates, or nuggets, normally start training in simulators, but after the fall of the twelve colonies, galacticas nuggets went from classroom straight into live aircraft until pegasus with its onboard flight simulators joined the fleet. Dale brown, former usaf captain and new york times bestselling author of a time for patriotsactionpacked and breathtakingly authentic, viper pilot is the electrifying memoir of one of the most decorated f16 pilots in american. Air force lieutenant colonel dan hampton, who served for twenty years, flying missions in the iraq war, the kosovo conflict, and the first gulf. He is an fws grad, a veteran of desert storm 23 tfs, kosovo 78 fs and desert storm ii 77 fs. Hampton emphasizes that he performed a fighter pilots most dangerous assignmentand it wasnt airtoair combat, which is probably a dying profession.
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