Colonel Don Walbrecht (the 11th Mach-3 SR-71 pilot) served 30 years as an Air Force officer, participating in advanced aircraft development, leading Pentagon programming and budgeting matters, and ...lihat lebih banyakColonel Don Walbrecht (the 11th Mach-3 SR-71 pilot) served 30 years as an Air Force officer, participating in advanced aircraft development, leading Pentagon programming and budgeting matters, and holding transpacific and transatlantic staff and command positions. In five years of U.K.-based service, he was the Chief U.S. Military Negotiator with the U.K. Ministry of Defence, and finally, Vice-Commander of the 26,000-person U.S. Third Air Force during the early 1980s. He earned three graduate degrees: a Master of Science from the George Washington University, a Masters of Literature from the Cambridge University, and Ph.D. from the University of East Anglia. He authored five Hessian John historical westerns, a scientific-fiction romaunt, On Silent Wings, and a doctoral dissertation, the History of U.S.-U.K. Airpower Cooperation.lihat lebih sedikit