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Boyd : the fighter pilot who changed the art of war / Robert Coram.

By: Coram, Robert.
Publisher: New York : Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company, 2004Description: xiv, 484 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.ISBN: 9780316796880; 0316796883.Subject(s): Boyd, John, 1927-1997 | United States. Air Force -- Officers -- Biography | Fighter pilots -- United States -- Biography | Fighter plane combat | Aeronautics, Military -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 358.43092 Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
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.
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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.

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