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Resposta to "Qual kit acabou de chegar na sua casa - 2 (Maio-2018)"

Boa aquisição Luis Pacheco.  Recomendo também este livro que embora seja de um piloto Tornado, tem uma parte que ele esta junto com os Phantons na Alemanha e tem algumas histórias deste contato.  O jato Tornado é um avião complexo e o bom é que ele conta com detalhes sobre o avião e outros tipos que pilotou...  com aquele humor mordaz britânico...

Written from the unique perspective of a fast jet cockpit, Tornado Over the Tigris captures the essence of what it was really like to fly a Tornado at the front-line of the Cold War in Germany and on operations over Iraq in the aftermath the Gulf War. 

After achieving a boyhood ambition to qualify as an RAF pilot, Michael Napier was posted to RAF Bruggen in Germany where he spent five years flying Tornado GR1 strike/attack aircraft at the height of the Cold War.   Always exhilarating, sometimes amusing and often dangerous, Michael Napier’s Tornado flying ranged from ‘routine’ low-flying in continental Europe and the UK to air combat manoeuvring in Sardinia and the ultra-realistic Red Flag exercises in the USA. 

After two tours flying the Tornado during which he progressed from struggling first-tourist to respected four-ship leader, he became an instructor at the Tactical Weapons Unit at RAF Chivenor.  This tour, during which he flew the Hawk, provided yet more exciting and challenging flying.  He returned to the Tornado at Bruggen as a Flight Commander shortly after the Gulf War and subsequently flew a number of operational sorties over Iraq, which included leading airstrikes against Iraqi air defence installations as part of major Coalition operations.

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