Red Eagles

Steve Davies is a freelance military and commercial aviation photojournalist based in Cambridge, England. He began writing in 2001, and has since authored six critically acclaimed books and co-authored three more. His freelance writing includes a plethora of articles penned for the world's leading monthly and quarterly aviation publications, and he has also worked on a range of aviation 'partwork' magazines that have sold millions of copies globally. He has also worked as a subject matter expert for a range of military aviation documentaries commissioned by terrestrial television channels in the UK and North America, and by the History Channel. His photography has been used not only by the aviation press, but also by leading defence contractors and aviation corporations.

Foreword by General J Juniper (ret.), Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force, 2001-05 /Acknowledgements /Introduction /Part 1: Acquiring “The Assets”: Chapter 1: HAVE MiGs, 1968-69 /Chapter 2: A Genesis for the Red Eagles, 1972-77 /Part 2: Laying the Ground Work: Chapter 3: CONSTANT PEG and Tonopah, 1977-79 /Chapter 4: The Red Eagles’ First Days and the Early MiGs /Chapter 5: The “Flogger” Arrives, 1980 /Chapter 6: Gold Wings, 1981 /Part 3: Expanded Exposures and Red Flag, 1982-85: Chapter 7: The Fatalists, 1982 /Chapter 8: Postai’s Crash /Chapter 9: Exposing the TAF, 1983 /Chapter 10: “The Air Force is Coming”, 1984 /Chapter 11: From Black to Gray, 1985 /Part 4: The Final Years, 1986-88: Chapter 12: Increasing Blue Air Exposures, 1986 /Chapter 13: “Red Country”, 1987 /Chapter 14: Arrival Shows, 1988 /Postscript /Endnotes /Appendices /Glossary /Index