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Loading... Day of the Cheetah (original 1989; edition 1990)by Dale Brown
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Day of the Cheetah is a 1989 technothriller novel written by former US Air Force officer Dale Brown. It is part of Brown's Patrick McLanahan series of novels America’s most advanced fighter plane, DreamStar, has been hijacked. To retrieve it, Lt. Col. Patrick McLanahan takes on his most perilous assignment since The Flight of the Old Dog. The odds are against him. His aircraft, the Cheetah, hasn’t the speed, the power, or the technology of the DreamStar—his skills behind the stick are the only advantage he’s got. Storyline Russian agent takes the place of Ken James. Ken James get into Dreamland and starts work on ANTARES (Advanced Neural Transfer and Response). Plane XF-34 Dreamstar Characters Ken James - Russian Agent General Brad Elliott - Commander of Dreamland Lieutenant Colonel Pat McLanahan - Project director - Dreamstar Hal Briggs - Dreamland Chief of Security Deborah O'Day - Defense advisor Marcia Preston - Pilot - O'Day's assistant JC Powell - Cheetah pilot - killed Alan Carmichael - ANTARES expert - killed John Ormack - Navigator - killed Wendy Tork - EWO Killed in final battle ? Captain Alicia Kellerman - Nav Major Kelvin Carter - Pilot Captain Nancy Cheshire JC Powell - Cheetah pilot - killed Alan Carmichael - ANTARES expert - killed John Ormack - Navigator - killed Captain Paul Scott - Bombardier Dr. Angelina Pereira - Gunner XFB-5 Tracer Leads to: FUTURE FLIGHT HAWC disbanded after the incident A Soviet deep-cover agent steals the world's most sophisticated jet fighter--and nearly destroys McLanahan and the High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center. no reviews | add a review
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Interesting with planes that can outmaneuver missiles, but even if a plane can react faster than a missile, such reactions would make soft mush of the inside of the humans involved.
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