Biographical note

Steve Davies is a fulltime freelance military aviation writer and photographer. He has written several critically-acclaimed books and is a regular contributor to several leading international magazines and journals. Steve has appeared in or worked as a consultant, interviewer, script writer and editor for a series of military aviation documentaries.

Doug Dildy is a retired US Air Force (USAF) colonel who spent nine of his 26-year career in Western Europe and retired with approximately 3,200 hours of fast jet time, almost half of that as an F-15 Eagle pilot. As commander of the 32d Fighter Squadron, Soesterberg AB, NL, he enforced the No-Fly-Zone over Iraq acquiring over 100 hours of combat time in the F-15, making him an expert on F-15 employment, especially in operations over Iraq.

Based in Nottinghamshire, UK, Chris Davey has illustrated more than 20 titles for Osprey’s Aircraft of the Aces, Combat Aircraft and Aviation Elite Units series since 1994. He is one of the last traditional airbrush artists in the business and illustrates USAAF fighters and RAF subject matter with skill.