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Book SynopsisThe book illuminates the complex interactions between human and machine that accompany advancing automation in the workplace.
Trade ReviewUltimately, this work is one of the best works of air power (and technology) history that this reviewer has read in quite some time, and will likely become a standard of the field. It certainly sets a very high bar for other historians. For those interested in pilot culture and/or aircraft technology, this is required reading, while still pointing towards directions for future scholarship.
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Ballons to DronesFino has truly written a very fine and well-researched academic book that will appeal across disciplines and military services. Tiger Check proves that aggressiveness and being a good stick, are still the hallmark of being of fighter pilot, but adds switchology and scientific skills needed to the traits necessary to operate a modern fighter aircraft. If the Sabre pilots were tigers, then today’s fighter pilots are tigers in lab coats. Fino should be mandatory reading for fighter pilots, especially those who are not familiar with the genesis of the tactics and tradecraft that they ply today. Though highly technical in some sections, it is an imminently readable tome that will also appeal to air power and technical aficionados, and those who seek to understand the origins and the changing nature of air-to-air combat.
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The Strategy BridgeThis is a masterly analysis of fighter combat in the Korean and Vietnam wars and beyond...an outstanding book showing how pilots grappled with new technologies that promised to simplify their jobs while increasing their lethality in the air but, the author says, also threatened to rob them of the quintessential fighter pilot experience.
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Aviation NewsTable of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. The Myth of the Fighter Pilot
Crafting the Mythical Ace
Revisiting the History
Ritualizing the Myth
War's Next Test
Conclusion
3. Sabres over Korea
A New Solution to an Old Gunnery Problem
Thrust into War
Capturing Glory
Using the New Gunsights
Conclusion
4. Phantoms over Vietnam
A New Approach to the Gunnery Problem
Thrust into War, Again
Tension in the Air
Who Gets the Credit?
Conclusion
5. Eagles over Nellis
A Pure Air-to-Air Fighter
Trial by Test
"Sorting" Things Out
Conclusion
6. Conclusion
The Irony of the Fighter Pilot
A Lesson for Future Automation
Knights or Scientists?
Notes
Works Cited
Index
