{"product_id":"f-4-phantom-9781909269637","title":"F-4 Phantom","description":"\u003cp\u003e'A stone cold classic. One of the best military aviaton memoirs ever written' Rowland White, author of \u003cem\u003eVulcan 607\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'I only have to think Speed, and I am at 600 knots in seconds. Think Height and I am gazing down from a eight-mile-high perch within one minute. Think Freedom and I am wrested away from a dank, cold world, cloudbase at 300 feet, through a brief shock of cloud to emerge into a golden blue world, another dimension, crystal clear for miles and miles'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFighter Pilot. Robert Prest had never wanted to be anything else. And even as a boy he had set his sights on flying the awesome McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom. The big, twin-engined interceptor offered an irresistible combination of charisma, power and performance. Air combat, strike, gunnery, bombing and rocketry, the F-4 was jack-of-all-trades, master of most.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the lonely pursuit of Soviet intruders out over the North Sea and strength-sapping high-g dogfights, to maintaining Quick Reaction Alert on Germany's Eastern border, ready to scramble Battle Flight at a moment's notice, Prest and his fellow aviators stood toe-to-toe with a powerful opponent. But the defence of the West came at a cost, and comrades in arms would pay with their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo other book so vividly brings to life the high-pressure, high stakes, high-speed world of an RAF fighter pilot on the Cold War frontline. But it's more than that. In capturing a sense of the wonder and magic of flying, Prest's book ranks aviation classics from writers like Saint-Exup ry, Richard Bach, Cecil Lewis and Ernest Gann.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'The best book I've ever read about flying fast jets for the Cold War RAF. Both thrilling and elegaic, F-4 Phantom makes poetry of complex, exacting world of the fighter pilot. This is as close as you'll ever get to flying the Phantom yourself.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRowland White, author of Vulcan 607\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'What First Light does for Spitfires and the Battle of Britain, Robert Prest does for the F-4 Phantom in RAF service ... Superbly written.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRoyal Aeronautical Society Insight\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfect for fans of books like Skyfaring, Apache, First Light, Tornado Down, Fate is the Hunter or Sagittarius Rising\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Silvertail Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50363962884370,"sku":"9781909269637","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_850c991d-9906-4daa-bf8d-9063f86ed117.jpg?v=1728421407","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/f-4-phantom-9781909269637","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}