Specifications
| Publisher | Grub Street |
| ISBN 13 | 9781910690390 |
| ISBN 10 | 1910690392 |
| Book Subtitle | More Thrilling Tales from UK and US Operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 |
| Book Description | The highly anticipated follow-up to Phantom Boys! Once again Richard Pike has brought together brilliant, hitherto unpublished, accounts across eighteen chapters.With both British and American perspectives, Phantom Boys 2 is packed with exhilarating action. Throughout the book Richard Pike captures the drama and emotion of life in the cockpit in vivid detail. With such engrossing stories, readers will be gripped by this captivating book. |
| Editorial Review | In Phantom Boys Volume 2 Richard Pike has brought together previously unpublished stories from both UK and US operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4. Narratives from air and ground crew cover adventures across the world, from the UK, US and Germany to the Fast East, and from combat in the Vietnam War to life after the Falklands War. --RAF News A compilation of informal recollections from USAF and RAF personnel of operating the F-4 Phantom (including during the Vietnam War and over the Falklands), illustrated throughout with contemporary photographs. Aerospace Magazine I enjoyed reading these stories and anyone with an interest in aviation will find them revealing and absorbing. There is much more to tell about this legendary aeroplane and I look forward to Phantom Boys 3. --The RAF Historical Society Journal The good news is that Richard Pike can write well, and this is demonstrated in the first chapter, when he relates one of his own escapades in the machine, when he was practicing air combat manoeuvring. The second chapter is rather good too, when one Archie Liggat recounts meeting an Argentinian colonel, twice. --Paul Smiddy |
| About the Author | Richard Pike became a flight cadet in 1961, at the RAF College, Cranwell where, on graduation, he was awarded the Dickson Trophy and Michael Hill memorial prize for flying. In the early stages of his forty-year flying career he flew the English Electric Lightning before converting to the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom. On leaving the Royal Air Force he became a civilian helicopter pilot. His duties took him to a wide variety of destinations at home and overseas including the Falkland Islands not long after the end of the Falklands War. His last assignment was in Kosovo helping to distribute emergency humanitarian aid on behalf of the United Nations World Food Programme. He and his wife live in Aberdeenshire. |
| Language | English |
| Author | Richard Pike |
| Publication Date | 11 Sep 2017 |
| Number of Pages | 184 |
Phantom Boys 2 : More Thrilling Tales from UK and US Operators of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Hardcover English by Richard Pike - 11 Sep 2017
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