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The Making of a Falcon
Published by
Vantage Press, 1995
ISBN 10: 0533111900
ISBN 13: 9780533111909
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Hardcover
First Edition
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Seller: Boards & Wraps, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Signed by the author in ink on the title page, and signed by one of the main characters in Fino's life. Lean, light rubbing and toning, faint edge foxing, lacking dust jacket but with flap panels affixed to the pastedowns. Uncommon. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; \ pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 85475
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The Making of a Falcon
Seller: ThriftBooks-Atlanta, AUSTELL, GA, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G0533111900I4N00
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The Making of a Falcon
Seller: Pink Casa Antiques, Frankfort, KY, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. stated 1st edition/1st printing with full number line, hardcover with dust jacket, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders. Seller Inventory # 97182
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The Making of a Falcon
Published by
Vantage Press, Inc, New York, NY, 1995
ISBN 10: 0533111900
ISBN 13: 9780533111909
Used
Hardcover
First Edition
Seller: Ground Zero Books, Ltd., Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. [4], xi, [3], 232, [6] pages. Includes Preface, Author's Note, and Foreword. Fed up with school, seventeen-year-old Dominic Fino joined the U.S. Army two days after graduating from high school on June 3, 1968. He found himself being routed from North Carolina to Alabama to Georgia, everywhere but Vietnam, which is where he really wanted to be. So when his request for transfer was denied, he took the unusual step of writing then-president Lyndon Johnson. His order to ship out to Vietnam followed shortly after. Once overseas, Dominic found himself assigned to the 335th Assault Helicopter Company, but it was not until he made the grade as one of the elite Falcons flying combat missions that Dominic at last realized his dream. The author's experiences cover the period from June 1968 through April 1970. The author decided to publish this story after helping to coordinate the first Falcon reunion in 1993, the first time the group had been together since leaving Vietnam, in an attempt to help others understand better what Vietnam was like for a gunship platoon. "A" Company of the 82nd Aviation Battalion (82nd Airborne Division) deployed to Vietnam in April 1965 in support of the 173rd Airborne Brigade. In September 1966, A Company was decommissioned and recommissioned as the 335th Aviation Company (months later redesignated the 335th Assault Helicopter Company). The 335th AHC was returned stateside and decommissioned in November 1971. An attack helicopter is an armed helicopter with the primary role of an attack aircraft, with the capability of engaging targets on the ground, such as enemy infantry and armored fighting vehicles. Due to their heavy armament they are sometimes called helicopter gunships. Weapons used on attack helicopters can include autocannons, machine guns, rockets, and guided anti-tank missiles such as the Hellfire. Many attack helicopters are also capable of carrying air-to-air missiles, though mostly for purposes of self-defense. Today's attack helicopter has two main roles: first, to provide direct and accurate close air support for ground troops, and second, the anti-tank role to destroy enemy armor concentrations. Attack helicopters are also used to supplement lighter helicopters in the armed scout role. In combat, an attack helicopter is projected to destroy around 17 times its own production cost before it is destroyed. In the mid-1960s, the U.S. Army concluded that a purpose-built attack helicopter with more speed and firepower than current armed helicopters was required in the face of increasingly intense ground fire (often using heavy machine guns and anti-tank rockets) from Viet Cong and NVA troops. Based on this realization, and with the growing involvement in Vietnam, the U.S. Army developed the requirements for a dedicated attack helicopter, the Advanced Aerial Fire Support System (AAFSS). The aircraft design selected for this program in 1965, was Lockheed's AH-56 Cheyenne. As the Army began its acquisition of a dedicated attack helicopter, it sought options to improve performance over the continued use of improvised interim aircraft (such as the UH-1B/C). In late 1965, a panel of high-level officers was selected to evaluate several prototype versions of armed and attack helicopters to determine which provided the most significant increase in capability to the UH-1B. The three highest-ranked aircraft, the Sikorsky S-61, Kaman H-2 "Tomahawk", and the Bell AH-1 Cobra, were selected to compete in flight trials conducted by the Army's Aviation Test Activity. Upon completion of the flight evaluations, the Test Activity recommended Bell's Huey Cobra to be an interim armed helicopter until the Cheyenne was fielded. On 13 April 1966, the U.S. Army awarded Bell Helicopter Company a production contract for 110 AH-1G Cobras.[9] The Cobra had a tandem cockpit seating arrangement (vs UH-1 side-by-side) to make the aircraft a smaller frontal target, increased armor protection, and greater speed. In 1967, the first. Seller Inventory # 79467
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The Making of a Falcon
Seller: Artless Missals, DENVER, CO, U.S.A.
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Former owner name on fly page corner. Binding solid, pages crisp and clean, no other markings found, a creased page corner. Dust jacket bright and shiny with a few creases, light scuffs and dents. Inside of jacket is rubbed. Extremities lightly bumped with minimal tip wear. Seller Inventory # SKU1009442