Coram, Robert.
Boyd : the fighter pilot who changed the art of war / Robert Coram. - New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2004. - xiv, 484 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
riginally pub.: Little, Brown and Company, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-470) and index.
1. Fighter pilot -- Haunted beginnings -- The Big Jock and the Presbyterian -- Fledgling -- K-13 and MiG Alley -- High priest -- Pope John goes severely supersonic -- Rat-racing -- Forty-second Boyd and the tactics manual -- 2. Engineer -- Thermo, entropy, and the breakthrough -- P5 = [T-D over W] V -- The Sugarplum Fairy spreads the Gospel -- Pull thee wings off and paint it yellow -- "I've never designed a fighter plane before" -- Bigger-higher-faster-farther -- Saving the F-15 -- Ride of the Valkyries -- The fighter mafia does the Lord's work -- A short-legged bird -- Spook base -- Take a look at the B-1 -- Take a look at the B-1 -- "This briefing is for information purposes only" -- The Buttonhook Turn -- 3. Scholar -- Destruction and creation -- OODA Loop -- Reform -- The great wheel of conspiracy -- Boyd joins the Marines -- Semper Fi -- Water-walker -- They think I'm a kook -- The Ghetto Colonel and the SecDef -- Epilogue : El Cid rides on.
9780316796880 0316796883
Boyd, John, 1927-1997.
United States. Air Force --Officers--Biography.
Fighter pilots--United States--Biography.
Fighter plane combat.
Aeronautics, Military--History--United States--20th century.
UG626.2.B69 / C67 2004
358.43092
Boyd : the fighter pilot who changed the art of war / Robert Coram. - New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2004. - xiv, 484 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
riginally pub.: Little, Brown and Company, 2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-470) and index.
1. Fighter pilot -- Haunted beginnings -- The Big Jock and the Presbyterian -- Fledgling -- K-13 and MiG Alley -- High priest -- Pope John goes severely supersonic -- Rat-racing -- Forty-second Boyd and the tactics manual -- 2. Engineer -- Thermo, entropy, and the breakthrough -- P5 = [T-D over W] V -- The Sugarplum Fairy spreads the Gospel -- Pull thee wings off and paint it yellow -- "I've never designed a fighter plane before" -- Bigger-higher-faster-farther -- Saving the F-15 -- Ride of the Valkyries -- The fighter mafia does the Lord's work -- A short-legged bird -- Spook base -- Take a look at the B-1 -- Take a look at the B-1 -- "This briefing is for information purposes only" -- The Buttonhook Turn -- 3. Scholar -- Destruction and creation -- OODA Loop -- Reform -- The great wheel of conspiracy -- Boyd joins the Marines -- Semper Fi -- Water-walker -- They think I'm a kook -- The Ghetto Colonel and the SecDef -- Epilogue : El Cid rides on.
9780316796880 0316796883
Boyd, John, 1927-1997.
United States. Air Force --Officers--Biography.
Fighter pilots--United States--Biography.
Fighter plane combat.
Aeronautics, Military--History--United States--20th century.
UG626.2.B69 / C67 2004
358.43092
