Colonel Don Walbrecht (the 11th pilot of the Mach-3 SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft) served 30 years as an Air Force officer, participating in advanced-aircraft development activities, leading Pentag...voir plusColonel Don Walbrecht (the 11th pilot of the Mach-3 SR-71 reconnaissance aircraft) served 30 years as an Air Force officer, participating in advanced-aircraft development activities, leading Pentagon operational programming and budgeting matters, and holding transpacific and transatlantic staff and command positions. He earned three graduate degrees including a Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia in Norfolk, England and completed three professional military courses at the Air University in Montgomery, Alabama. He currently serves as Professor of Aviation Management for the Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Mountain Home Air Force Base in Idaho where he supervises graduate-level military research projects. He is the author of two earlier books in this Hessian John series as well as a scientific-fiction poetic romaunt, On Silent Wing, and a doctoral dissertation, the Diplomatic History of U.S. Airpower in the United Kingdom.voir moins