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1) Unmanned
Author
Language
English
Description
"A psychologically gripping descent into the eerie realm of drone warfare, led by one pilot's risky quest to expose its darkest secrets. As an F-16 fighter pilot, Darwin Cole was a family man on top of his world. Now he's a washout-drunk and alone in a trailer in the Nevada desert, and haunted by what he saw on the display of the Predator drone he "piloted," especially by the memory of an Afghan child running for her life. He reluctantly teams up...
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After more than 30 years of service as one of the navy's top aviators, Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it." --...
10) Force of eagles
Author
Publisher
D.I. Fine
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
At the mercy of their fanatical fundamentalist captors, the men and women of the 45th Tactical Fighter Wing wait for their liberation while their government sends ace flyer Jack Locke to the rescue.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The incredible life story of Eugene Bullard, the first African American military pilot in WWI, who went on to become a self-taught jazz musician, a Paris nightclub impresario, a spy in the French Resistance and an American civil rights pioneer. Eugene Bullard lived one of the most fascinating lives of the twentieth century. The son of a former slave and an indigenous Creek woman, Bullard fled home at the age of eleven to escape the racial hostility...
12) Unknown rider
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn River Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Investigating a series of mysterious lights floating dangerously close to his aircraft carrier, TOP GUN instructor Colt Bancroft loses control of his stealth fighter, crashing headfirst into a global conspiracy where, to clear his name and unmask a traitor, he must survive a deadly game of spy-vs-spy."--
13) The Krytos trap
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
A killer virus called krytos makes its way across Coruscant, decimating the population and sowing seeds of rebellion.
14) Devotion
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jonathan Majors (Creed III) and Glen Powell (Top Gun: Maverick) star in the epic and inspirational true story of two elite US Navy fighter pilots who helped turn the tide in the most brutal battle in the Korean War: Jesse Brown, the first Black aviator in Navy history, and his fellow fighter pilot and friend, Tom Hudner. Their heroic sacrifices and enduring friendship would ultimately make them the Navy's most celebrated wingmen.--
15) The Trojan sea
Author
Publisher
W. Morrow
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Beautiful and brilliant, Lee Justine (L.J.) Ellis is, at thirty-eight, the youngest CEO ever of a major oil corporation. Ruthless, charismatic, greedy, and philanthropic, she is a strange dichotomy of positive and negative, a driven crusader on a god-given mission. And now she owns something worth killing for: secret knowledge of vast, untapped reserves right in America's backyard beneath the territorial waters of a sworn enemy, Cuba."--Jacket.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of Viper Pilot and retired USAF F-16 legend Dan Hampton offers the first comprehensive popular history of combat aviation--a unique, entertaining, and action-packed look at the aces of the air and their machines, from the Red Baron and his triplane in World War I to today's technologically expert flying warriors in supersonic jets."--
17) Fallout: a novel
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Luke Henry, a former TOPGUN instructor who opened his own fighter school in Nevada, has serious doubts about the Pakistani pilots he has been forced to train as part of his government contract.
20) Fly with me
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"U.S. Air Force fighter pilot Noah Miller loves nothing more than flying hard and fast. When he meets a gorgeous and sassy woman while partying in Las Vegas, he immediately locks on to her. Jordan Callahan owns a thriving clothing boutique, but her love life is far less successful. One scorching weekend becomes an undeniable chemistry that they cant leave in Vegas. But the long distance relationship and their different lives threaten to ground their...