Final Fathom

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It is impossible to thank everyone who provided technical advice and support for this book and my other action-adventure novels. I deeply appreciate their advice, support, and technical competence. I also am always appreciative of those who visit www.sixthfleet.com, read my columns, and sometimes disagree. Your comments are welcomed and for those who send e-mails, I do try to reply personally to each.

You run the risk of missing someone when you are acknowledging contributions, technical advice, and support, so I apologize up front if I did so.

In these three books of the Dark Pacific series, I wrote a lot about the F-22A Raptor. The F-22A Raptor is the most technologically advanced fighter aircraft in the world. All the information in the books on the F-22A is easily available on the Internet. Without reserve, my great respect to the men and women who take this phenomenal weapon of democracy into the hostile areas of the world. Writing about them and trying to extrapolate how they fly and how flying those planes is dif-ferent — from those who sit in the cockpit, who know what they are doing, and use the advantage of the technologies and avionics of the stealth fighter to control the aerial battle space — I ask their forgiveness if, for the sake of literary ease, I mixed up the cockpit controls and capabilities of the aircraft.

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