Author: Hall, George.
Title: US Navy : West Coast Warriors.
Description: London, England, UK : Windrow & Greene, 1992. Paperback. 96 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm. (Wings ; no. 2). Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : very good. - The heart of the Navy's air combat evaluation programme on the West Coast beats at Point Mugu 40 miles north of Los Angeles. Here Navy test pilots, including VX-4 'Evaluators' and VX-5 'Vampires', wring the bugs out of each new generation of fleet warplanes, marrying them to new weapons systems under the perfect condi- tions of a fully-instrumented 35,000-square mile range facility. The Tomcats and Hornets stalk 'smart drones' and wired-up Sabres and Phantoms, flown by shirtsleeve pilots on the deck through the responses of 'Ensign Nolo' in the cockpit and Nolo doesn't always lose! Apart from the colourful denizens of the Pacific Missile Test Center, respected aviation photo- grapher GEORGE HALL and his colleagues have captured a fascinating gallery of other Navy types in and around Mugu, which is home to more than 20 Reserve units operating increas- ingly sophisticated inventory. Here are Hornets of VFA-305 'Lobos', alongside the extraordinary ski-equipped LC-13OR Herks of the Antarctic support squadron; Orion patrol ships of VP-65 'Tridents', and the Navy's latest combat support HH-60 choppers of HCS-5 'Firehawks' fresh from the Gulf; and a wide range of other residents and 'drop-ins', from ANG C-130s to Corsair taxis and Gulf-proven A-6 'mud-movers'. ISBN 9781872004327.

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