{"title":"Phantom Flight Series","description":"\u003cp\u003eF-4 Phantom crews over North Vietnam, from low cloud at the DMZ to the dark skies over Hanoi.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"double-ugly-phantom-flight-book-1","title":"Double Ugly (Phantom Flight Book 1)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe North Vietnamese army is across the DMZ, and the cloud over Quang Tri sits too low to see the tanks.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Reid Fallon, a former flight instructor, leads Packard flight, four F-4 Phantoms out of Ubon in Thailand, diving through ragged holes in the weather to bomb whatever the forward air controller can find. In his back seat rides Major Milo Dunphy, a navigator who can find a tanker inside a thunderstorm but gets lost walking to his own hootch. Fallon wants to put pinball machines in the lounge of a 747. Dunphy is the one who sees that the marking smoke has drifted across the river onto the friendly side.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn the other side of that river, Major Đặng Hữu Tùng moves his guns every night and listens to the American spotter planes on a radio taken from a crashed helicopter. His gunners wait in the tree lines under the cloud. And every time Fallon comes off a target, he wants one more pass.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45300422901826,"sku":"PHANTOM-01-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/01_Double_Ugly_ebk_cover_GPT_CLD_20261002_1215_RDY.jpg?v=1791108592"},{"product_id":"back-seater-phantom-flight-book-2","title":"Back Seater (Phantom Flight Book 2)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTo guide a laser bomb, a Phantom has to fly the same slow left-hand circle over the guns until the bomb hits.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Reid Fallon flies the circle. Major Milo Dunphy holds the spot through the Zot, a laser sight bolted to the rear canopy. When flak makes Fallon break the turn and the bombs land in the river, he writes the report exactly as it happened. Colonel Dahlgren splits the crew. Dunphy goes to Dirk Halloran to run the laser, and Fallon gets Lieutenant Sonny Gaines, a back-seater who answers every question with three ways to do it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe target is a bridge on the Ma River that the crews call the Teapot, with a hamlet sitting low behind a dike. Major Đặng Hữu Tùng once drove rivets in the great bridge at Hàm Rồng, and he knows how bridges die. His rangefinder operator, Sen, has watched the circle. Always the same height, always the same speed. She says you could set a clock by it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45300422934594,"sku":"PHANTOM-02-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/02_Back_Seater_ebk_cover_GPT_CLD_20261002_1215_RDY.jpg?v=1791108592"},{"product_id":"pave-wolf-phantom-flight-book-3","title":"Pave Wolf (Phantom Flight Book 3)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eOver Quang Tri, the fast FACs fly low enough to see the enemy, and low enough to be seen.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Reid Fallon has joined the Wolfs, the Phantom crews who find targets at jet speed, mark them with smoke rockets and run the strike flights in. His jet, Forty-Seven, carries rockets, extra fuel and a laser illuminator, and his crew chief, Sergeant Tafoya, says she is tired. In the back seat Lieutenant Sonny Gaines works the binoculars, hums bass lines and sees the gun Fallon missed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMajor Đặng Hữu Tùng has learned how the Wolfs hunt. A night convoy burns like brush, its lights spaced too evenly to be trucks. Gun pits are empty by the time the bombs land. A young radio man listens to every American call. Then a laser bomb falls short near the Vietnamese Marines Fallon is there to protect, and Colonel Dahlgren grounds every Wolf laser until someone can say why.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45300422967362,"sku":"PHANTOM-03-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/03_Pave_Wolf_ebk_cover_GPT_CLD_20261002_1215_RDY.jpg?v=1791108591"},{"product_id":"chaff-corridor-phantom-flight-book-4","title":"Chaff Corridor (Phantom Flight Book 4)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBefore the B-52s go north to Hanoi, a few Phantoms have to fly in first and hide them in a cloud of chaff.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCaptain Reid Fallon flies Ruby Three in the dark, laying strips of aluminum in a corridor the bombers will follow minutes later. Lieutenant Sonny Gaines reads the chaff on his scope from the back seat. Major Milo Dunphy is back at Ubon and flying behind Dirk Halloran in Ruby Four. Halloran wears the same gray shirt every mission and touches his ladder twice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThen the wind takes a corridor apart. North of the river, Major Đặng Hữu Tùng and his rangefinder operator Sen study the chaff on a plotting board. It always starts in the same places and ends at the rail yards, and the bombers always come down the middle. To Tùng it is a road sign the Americans have painted for him. And the small jets at the head of each band always fly at the same height.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Endeavor Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45300423163970,"sku":"PHANTOM-04-EBK-SKU","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0117\/5873\/1330\/files\/04_Chaff_Corridor_ebk_cover_GPT_CLD_20261002_1215_RDY.jpg?v=1791108592"}],"url":"https:\/\/whitemountainpress.com\/collections\/phantom-flight-series.oembed","provider":"White Mountain Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}