AIR SUPERIORITY BLUE: F-15 STORY By Donn A. Byrnes

[overscan (PaulMM)]

This looks like a really interesting book on the development of the F-15 by someone intimately involved with it. Published in 2007. Anyone with a copy wants to sell, I'll pay a decent price

 

[Mark Nankivil]

Excellent book - I have a copy. Let me see of I can find one around here to pass along...

Enjoy the Day! Mark

 

[elmayerle]

Amazon lists used book dealers that carry it. Warning, the price jumps quickly and you don't want to know what it's running on ABE Books. I just purchased a good condition used copy for $23 plus shipping and tax. The next lowest price, for a copy in very good condition was $34 and change.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

That'd be great Mark - I'm happy to pay for it, but the last book I bought from the US never arrived, and I need to use PayPal rather than credit card for this which limits my buying abilities.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

I found a copy in so-so condition which had reasonable postage and it arrived today.

Its certainly got an authoritative list of contributors, and seems a very worthwhile addition to the library.

 

[John21]

Anybody know the page count?

 

[Archibald]

Amazon lists used book dealers that carry it. Warning, the price jumps quickly and you don't want to know what it's running on ABE Books. I just purchased a good condition used copy for $23 plus shipping and tax. The next lowest price, for a copy in very good condition was $34 and change.

Some people should be hanged by their testicles, really. Speculating on aerospace books - meh

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Anybody know the page count?

293 pages excluding the appendices, it's well over 300 pages.

If you want some more info, check out the acknowledgements and index. It seems likely that this was put together via the "Gathering of Eagles" reunions, which was a recurring event getting together members of the F-15 SPO (and other F-15 people).

It's got things you won't have read before, and it's definitely worth buying if you find it at a good price. Makes interesting reading alongside the Lightweight Fighter Program histories, some definite differences of opinion.

 

[John21]

Anybody know the page count?

293 pages excluding the appendices, it's well over 300 pages.

If you want some more info, check out the acknowledgements and index. It seems likely that this was put together via the "Gathering of Eagles" reunions, which was a recurring event getting together members of the F-15 SPO (and other F-15 people).

It's got things you won't have read before, and it's definitely worth buying if you find it at a good price. Makes interesting reading alongside the Lightweight Fighter Program histories, some definite differences of opinion.

Bought it last week, currently on chapter 4, pretty good so far, got it for $40 bucks, more than I wanted, but better than waiting and having it go up to the hundreds like what happens when Ian from Forgotten Weapons recommends books...‍

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

I've read the whole thing through a couple of times and it is more like a collection of small essays, all related to the central theme of the development of the F-15.

If you want an Aerofax style monography, with photos, technical / operational information, this is not for you. If however you want to read first hand accounts from the people who developed the F-15 on how it all happened....

The dislike of the Fighter Mafia is also very obvious. Byrnes makes a good case for the air force orthodox position.