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Just took a look at the amazon.com listing for this book
(http://tinyurl.com/29os8mk) - with 25 5-star reader ratings (and nothing
lower), I think a lot of people concur with your "hard to put it down"
assessment.  :-)

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GregR


On 10/5/2010 4:03:32 PM, Paul Hirose (cfuhb-acdgw@earthlink.net) wrote:
> "U.S. Air Force navigators and bombardiers have long labored under the
> shadow of pilots, their contributions misunderstood or simply unknown to
> the public. This was especially the case with the B-52 non-pilot officer
> aircrews in the Vietnam War. Yet without them it would have been
> impossible to execute nuclear war strike plans or fly conventional
> bombing sorties. Here, one of their own reveals who these men were and
> what they did down in the 'Black Hole.'"
>
> So says the dust jacket of "Flying from the Black Hole," a 2009
> book by Robert O. Harder, who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1966
> through 1970. Harder had wanted to be a pilot, but slight myopia
> meant he became a navigator instead.
> ("The eye test was an absolute deal
> killer; if one did not have 'perfect' vision, one was simply not
> admitted to Undergraduate Pilot School.")
>
> In the mid-1960s, the USAF conducted UNT (undergraduate navigator
> training) at Mather AFB near Sacramento, California.
> "The young men were
> streamed into their new work on a dead run, and that intensity did not
> let up in the slightest over the next thirty-eight weeks."
> After a few
> weeks of ground training with charts, plotters, dividers, and the MB-4A

   

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