341 pages
English language
Published Feb. 12, 1987 by Grafton.
Flight of the Old Dog is the runaway bestseller that launched the phenomenal career of Dale Brown. It is the riveting story of America's race for technology, overtaken by our greatest enemy's mastery of "Star Wars." The U.S. arsenal of nuclear missiles has been neutralized. America's only hope: The Old Dog Zero One, a battle-scarred bomber fully renovated with modern hardware - and equipped with the deadliest state-of-the-art armaments known to man...
When the Soviet Union masters "Star Wars" technology, rendering the U.S.'s arsenal of nuclear missiles impotent, America's only hope lies in The Old Dog Zero One--a battle-scarred bomber fully renovated with enough weaponry and stealth hardware to earn it the nickname, "Megafortress."
-From Goodreads
First read this when it came out in the later 80's. Remember enjoying it then and enjoyed it again the other day. You could say this is overly technical but I enjoyed that about it. You could say there are some Cold War cardboard characters and that's ok. One bit I did notice and appreciate was the inclusion of two women as part of the team. and they were not just window dressing.
