Research Catalog

Title

Topgun days : dogfighting, cheating death, and Hollywood glory as one of America's best fighter jocks / Dave "Bio" Baranek.

Author

Baranek, Dave.

Publication

New York : Skyhorse Pub., c2010.

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Details

Description

xi, 308 p., [32] p. of plates : col. ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Dave Baranek writes of his days as a naval flight officer and a Topgun instructor, which made him responsible for teaching the Navy and Marine Corps' best fighter pilots. He also writes of his participation in the filming of the Hollywood blockbuster Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise.

Subject

• Baranek, Dave
• United States. Navy > Officers > Biography
• Navy Fighter Weapons School (U.S.)
• Top Gun (Motion picture)
• Fighter pilots > United States > Biography
• Air pilots, Military > Training of > United States
• Tomcat (Jet fighter plane)

Genre/Form

• Autobiographies
• Biographies
• Autobiographies.

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Faceoff at 700 MPH -- Joining the fighting renegades -- A pulse-pounding carrier landing -- Fight's on -- Rocket rider -- The topgun way -- Wild card bogeys -- Gunboat diplomacy in a jet fighter -- Murder board -- Our toughest fights -- Preparing for combat -- Hollywood comes to Miramar -- Make-believe turns real -- Waiting for the cork to pop -- Top Gun becomes a blockbuster -- Changing of the guard.

ISBN

• 9781616080051 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 1616080051 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2010010098

OCLC

464579706

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library