What do You think about Flight Of The Old Dog (2003)?
Fair, just fair. The plot is decent, as is the storyline, but there are many improbable or even impossible situations. Weapons, locations, etc. are mostly fictitious but use some real elements to portray an air of realism for those who don't know any better.For readers that value realism and accuracy, this book will be lacking. If you just want a read which entertains with much artistic license, you will probably enjoy it.Proofing of this book is some of the poorest I have ever seen, with many errors peppering the book. Apparently the author and publisher think "immersement" is a word. Others are also entertaining, such as "Intellitence".
—Paul
The story of a stealth B-52. Yeah. It's exactly that stupid.What begins as just this author's pet "what if..." scenario just slides off a cliff as the book progresses. Apparently Dale Brown decided that anyone addled enough to accept the books premise would accept anything he threw at them.Brown throws plenty.For reasons known only to the author - a government project makes a stealth aircraft out of an airframe designed and built in the 1950's.Then the entire universe conspires to create a scenario that requires just such an aircraft.Against all odds, the book goes downhill after that.
—murph
I believe I read this book while I was in 7th grade, after I had finished up with everything that Clancy had put out at that point, and was looking for something to fill the void. Well, Flight Of The Old Dog was it. Absolutely blew me away. I am pretty sure that I recommended this book through high school to anyone who would listen, and I doubt many did, about how fantastic this book is. The story was written and still takes place during the cold war, which unfortunately, I am JUST old enough to remember. And the adventurous plot and the tenacity of the characters to do something so insane that it actually might work was brilliant. Brown made you believe in all the technology that was being incorporated into an old B-52, and retro-fitted for one mission to potentially save America. The story, once it gets cooking, is virtually impossible to put down. BY FAR, my favorite book of Dale Brown's, although he has some other fairly good ones as well. Fantastic Read!!
—John Boettcher
