{"product_id":"ironclaw-book-sherman-baldwin-9780553577488","title":"Ironclaw","description":"\u003cp\u003e Fast-paced, exciting and informative, with a realism and authenticity that this old carrier aviator has not seen in a long, long time. -Admiral J. L. Holloway I, USN (Ret.), Chief of Naval Operations, 1974-78 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e A fine Tom Clancy-style account.From the start, the reader is in the cockpit. -Kirkus Reviews \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e The book that straps you into the cockpit of one of the world's most exhilarating and dangerous occupations. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Slammed back into his ejection seat, catapulting from the heaving aircraft-carrier at 150 miles per hour in two seconds, he plunges into the darkness above the black waves. He is a rookie pilot on his first flight off the deck of the famed US Midway, a nugget strapped in the electronics-crammed cockpit of one of the world's most expensive, sophisticated - and powerful - military machines. He is a member of the elite EA-6B Prowler squadron - call sign Ironclaw. And for Sherman Baldwin, a Yale grad turned navy carrier pilot on the eve of the Gulf War, the adventure has just begun. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here is the real world of military aviation - a world far more exciting than the depiction in bestselling novels and popular Hollywood films. Baldwin records in white-knuckled prose what it's really like to make the grade as a navy carrier pilot: the high-stakes, high-pressure world of piloting multimillion-dollar aircraft, precision flying through enemy fire over hostile territory, and zero-tolerance aircraft landings in the dead of night, when one miscalculation could result in a fatal crash. He also offers a rare behind-the-scenes look at the humor and camaraderie that bind these special individuals together, characters with nicknames like Beast, Chief Rat, and Simba. From the mission-planning room to chaotic action of the carrier deck to emergency midair refuelings and the outbreak of the Gulf War, Baldwin captures the G forces of the world's steepest and most dangerous learning curve.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49600128876817,"sku":"GOR002895467","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49910506881297,"sku":"CIN0553577484G","price":6.73,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":52154473283857,"sku":"CIN0553577484A","price":7.67,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0553577484.jpg?v=1750699292","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/ironclaw-book-sherman-baldwin-9780553577488","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}