Tiger Check: Automating the US Air Force Fighter Pilot in Air-to-Air Combat, 1950–1980
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (850 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1421423278 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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Fino is a US Air Force command pilot and a graduate of the Air Force’s Weapons School. He is currently assigned to the Pentagon.. Steven A
In this new era of automated, long-range air combat, can fighter pilots still be considered tigers? Aimed at scholars of technology and airpower aficionados alike, Steven A. The book illuminates the complex interactions between human and machine that accompany advancing automation in the workplace.. Drawing on an array of sources, as well as his own decade of experience as an F-15C fighter pilot, Fino unpacks not just the technological black box of fighter fire control equipment, but also fighter pilots’ attitudes toward their profession and their evolving aircraft. Fino argues that increasing fire control automation altered what fighter pilots actually did during air-to-air combat. He describes how pilots grappled with the new technologies, acutely aware that the very systems that promised to simplify their jobs while increasing their lethality in the air also threatened to rob them of the quintessentialalbeit mythicfighter p
C. But it’s a good deal more than that. Author Steven Fino excels at identifying and explaining complex social tensions and relationships that existed within the U.S. "Thoroughly researched, well organized, and masterfully written, Tiger Check takes readers inside the cockpit to really get a feel for the complexities inherent inand the technological and cultural evolution offighter aviation." (Alan Meyer, Auburn University, author of Weekend Pilots: Technology, Masculinity, and Private Aviation in Postwar America)"Until you read this book you will never fully understand how the marriage of fighter pilot culture and technology, often marked by deep disagreements, has nonetheless survived in the long term to produce the world’s greatest fighter aircraft and fighter pilots." (Col. Anderegg, USAF (Ret), author of Sierra Hotel: Flying Air Force Fighters in the Decade after Vietnam)"Taking his readers into the cockpits of Air Force fighter planes, Fino ably