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Books > Professional & Technical > Transport technology > Aerospace & aviation technology > Aviation skills / piloting
For more than thirty years, Giora Even-Epstein flew fighters for
the Israel Air Force, achieving recognition as a highly skilled
military aviator and the highest-scoring jet-mounted ace with the
most number of confirmed victories in the French Mirage. Having
overcome numerous hurdles just to learn how to fly, he went on to
compile a record of Arab MiGs and Sukhoi kills that bettered any
other combat aviators' tally in the entire world. This fast-moving
autobiography details his experiences particularly in the intense
conflicts of 1967, the Six Day War, and 1973, the Yom Kippur War.
The reader shares the cockpit with him as he describes every action
he undertook with 101 and 105 Squadron, including the greatest
jet-versus-jet air battle in history with four MiG-21 kills in one
engagement. His final score was seventeen aerial victories. After
his last battle he became commander of the First Jet Squadron, 117,
began civilian flying, retrained to command 254 MMR Squadron in the
1982 Lebanon War, and flew the F-16 at the age of fifty before
retirement. Along the way he met numerous fighter pilot legends
such as Douglas Bader, Al Deere, Pierre Clostermann and Randy
Cunningham. Affable and enthusiastic, Giora gained the nickname
'Hawkeye' because of his amazing vision of more than 20/15,
enabling him to pick out enemy aircraft long before his squadron
mates. His story is of one man's unfaltering dedication to his
dreams and his country. As the leading jet ace it is one well worth
telling and, critically, it can be told in his own words.
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