William A. Flanagan, in Air University
Review (May-June 1981), Superintendentto Dogfight of Documents, Government Printing Of-
fice, Washington, D.C. 20402.
America's new jet fighters-the F-15, F-16, and A-10-have a lot in com-
mon: great speed, dazzling maneuverability, and a single-seat cockpit.
Flanagan, an Air Force major, argues that such heavy reliance on one-
man fighters is a big mistake.
In the first fighter planes of World War I, one man flew, and his part-
ner fired a machine...