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America's most advanced fighter plane is hijacked-and the greatest high-flying chase of all time begins.Tags
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Notwithstanding the idea of Soviets in Nicaragua (Monroe doctrine), implausible behavior of world leaders, and unreal defector flip-flop, this was a pretty good sci-fi book. It was a short listen purports development of a thought controlled fighter airplane. What an idea.
Do not expect realistic technology or realistic people.
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.
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.
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.
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 - show more 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. show less
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 - show more 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. show less
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Dale Brown was born on November 2, 1956 in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Western European history, where he wrote a column for the University's newspaper, The Daily Collegian. He went on to freelance for computer magazines, such as Run and Compute's Gazette for Commodore. He received an Air Force show more Commission in 1978 and while there, he received the Air Force Commendation Medal, the Combat Crew Medal and a Marksmanship Ribbon. He also wrote for several military base newspapers while he was still enlisted. He left the Air Force as a Captain and remains a multi-engine and instrument rated private pilot. He is a director and volunteer pilot for AirLifeLine, a nonprofit national medical transport for needy people who cannot afford to travel for medical attention. He is the author of several series including Dale Brown's Dreamland and, Patrick McLanahan. Dreamland. His title Tiger's Claw made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Original title
- Day Of The Cheetah
- Original publication date
- 1989
- First words
- 'Ken James' stamped his feet on the frozen dirt, rubbed his hands together quickly, then wrapped them around the shaft of a big Spaulding softball bat.
- Original language
- English
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- Members
- 705
- Popularity
- 39,920
- Reviews
- 4
- Rating
- (3.43)
- Languages
- English, German, Hungarian
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 16
- ASINs
- 8
