Dale Brown (b. November 2, 1956) is an American author most famous for his military-action-aviation techno-thrillers, with thirteen New York Times best-sellers to his credit. Image File history File links Dale-Brown. ... Image File history File links Dale-Brown. ... November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... 1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...

Brown was born in Buffalo, New York. He graduated from Penn State University with a degree in Western European History, and received a commission in the United States Air Force in 1978. Aerial view of downtown Buffalo, New York Buffalo is an American city in western New York. ... The Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (commonly known as Penn State) is a state-related land-grant university in Pennsylvania, with over 80,000 students at 24 campuses throughout the state. ... The United States Air Force (USAF) is the aviation branch of the United States armed forces. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday (the link is to a full 1978 calendar). ...

A navigator-bombardier in the G-model B-52 Stratofortress heavy bomber and the FB-111A supersonic medium bomber, he rose to the rank of captain. He is the recipient of several military decorations and awards, including the Air Force Commendation Medal, the Combat Crew Award, and the Marksmanship ribbon. He is also a Life Member of the Air Force Association and the U.S. Naval Institute. After retiring from the Air Force in 1986 he wrote his first book, Flight of the Old Dog. His novels are published in eleven languages and distributed to over seventy countries. A navigator is the person onboard a ship responsible for the navigation of the vessel. ... The crews of bomber aircraft, historically, included a bombardier, as they were known in the United States, or a bomb aimer, as they were known in other countries, who was responsible for targetting the planes munitions. ... A B-52 in flight The Boeing B-52 Stratofortress is a long-range strategic bomber flown by the United States Air Force since 1952, replacing the Convair B-36 and the Boeing B-47. ... A bomber is a military aircraft designed to attack ground targets, primarily by dropping bombs. ... A U.S. Air Force F-111 The General Dynamics F-111 Aardvark (the nickname was unofficial for most of its lifespan, but it was officially named Aardvark at its retirement ceremony for the United States Air Force) is a long-range strategic bomber, reconnaissance, and tactical strike aircraft. ... The Commendation Medal is a mid-level United States military award which is presented for sustained acts of heroism or meritorious service. ... The United States Naval Institute is a non-profit, professional organization in the United States. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Brown is a director and volunteer pilot for AirLifeLine, a non-profit national charitable medical transportation organization that flies needy persons to receive treatment. He is also a member of a number of organizations that support and promote reading and law enforcement.

Brown, his wife Diane, and son Hunter, live near the shores of Lake Tahoe, Nevada. He enjoys flying his own private jet, a Grumman Gulfstream II; on the ground, he enjoys tennis, skiing, scuba diving, and ice hockey. Lake Tahoe Lake Tahoe is a freshwater lake in the Sierra Nevada, on the border between California and Nevada, with approximately two-thirds of the shoreline in California. ... State nickname: Silver State, Battle Born State (official) Other U.S. States Capital Carson City Largest city Las Vegas Governor Kenny Guinn (R) Senators Harry Reid (D) John Ensign (R) Official languages None Area 286,367 km² (7th)  - Land 284,396 km²  - Water 1,971 km² (0. ... Gulfstream II is a large twin engine business jet built by Gulfstream Aerospace, and its US military designation is C-11. ... Tennis balls This article is about the sport, tennis. ... Skiing is the activity of gliding over snow using skis (originally wooden planks, now usually made from fiberglass or related composites) strapped to the feet with ski bindings. ... Early ideas of autonomous under-water systems appear in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea Scuba diving is the use of independent breathing equipment to stay underwater for long periods of time for recreational diving and professional diving. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ...

Bibliography

As sole author

• Flight of the Old Dog (1987)

  Patrick McLanahan leads a crew of engineers aboard the "Old Dog" to destroy a Soviet ground-based laser site.

• Silver Tower (1988)

  The world's first military space station is America's only chance against a Soviet invasion of Iran.

• Day of the Cheetah (1989)

  A Soviet deep-cover agent steals the world's most sophisticated jet fighter—and nearly destroys McLanahan and the High Technology Aerospace Weapons Center.

• Hammerheads (1990)

  America's first border security force takes on a fearsome Cuban military drug smuggling gang.

• Sky Masters (1991)

  Patrick McLanahan and the heavy bombers of the U.S. Air Battle Force leads the American counterattack against a Chinese invasion of the Philippines.

• Night of the Hawk (1992)

  Patrick McLanahan leads a special operations team into Lithuania to rescue a long-lost fellow crewdog.

• Chains of Command (1993)

  A fledgling Air Force Reserve unit, led by the Air Force's first female combat pilot, spearheads the U.S. response to a Russian invasion of the Ukraine.

• Storming Heaven (1994)

  Admiral Ian Hardcastle must set up an air defense network inside the United States to stop a terrorist from attacking the largest U.S. airports and Washington, DC itself.

• Shadows of Steel (1996)

  The United States sends Patrick McLanahan and a secret B-2 Spirit stealth bomber unit over Iran to stop a new Persian Gulf war.

• Fatal Terrain (1997)

  The return of the EB-52 Megafortress, the "Old Dog." A skirmish between China and Taiwan goes nuclear, and the crew of the Megafortress goes on the hunt to stop the Chinese war machine.

• The Tin Man (1998)

  Patrick McLanahan is back from the conflicts overseas—but the fighting is not over. When an old enemy hatches a daring, deadly plot in Patrick's home town, he must transform himself into a weapon of war.

• Battle Born (1999)

  Patrick McLanahan must turn a group of young, maverick pilots into America's premier tactical strike force — and with war erupting in Asia, time is definitely not on his side.

• Warrior Class (2001)

  The world is falling apart, and there are plenty of people willing to take advantage. One of them is Parvel Kazakov, a Russian oilman with close ties to organized crime and an audacious idea: build a huge pipeline through the Balkans, get the Russian army to back him and everybody gets rich. Though NATO will object, the new American President's emphatic policy of isolationism will guarantee no effective opposition. Russia will dominate Europe. Kazakov will dominate the oil supply.

• Wings of Fire (Dale Brown) (2002)

  Patrick McLanahan flies into a storm of troubles in a spectacular new thriller, packed with high-adrenaline flying action and adventure.

• Air Battle Force (2003)

  Maverick Pilot Patrick McLanahan takes aerial warfare into unknown territory in a heart racing new adventure.

• Plan of Attack (Dale Brown) (2004)
• Act of War (June 2005; this book is based on the game)

1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Patrick McLanahan is the primary character most of the books by Dale Brown. ... Engineering is the application of science to the needs of humanity. ... Soviet redirects here. ... The range of sizes in which lasers exist is immense, extending from microscopic diode lasers (top) to football field sized neodymium glass lasers (bottom) used for inertial confinement fusion. ... Silver Tower is the headquarters of Dresdner Bank. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A space station is an artificial structure designed for humans to live in outer space. ... Soviet redirects here. ... Written in 1989, The Day of the Cheetah is Dale Brown’s third novel. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Soviet redirects here. ... A fighter aircraft is a military aircraft designed primarily for attacking other aircraft, as opposed to a bomber, which is designed to attack ground targets, primarily by dropping bombs. ... For the Temptations album, see 1990 (Temptations album) MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... Border has several different, but related meanings: // Generic borders A border can consist of a margin around the edge of something, such as a lawn, garden, photograph, or sheet of paper. ... For the band, see The Police. ... // How a gang is defined A gang is a group of individuals who share a common identity and, in current usage, engage in illegal activities. ... Sky Masters of the Space Force is an American comic strip created by Jack Kirby, featuring the adventures of an American astronaut. ... 1991 (MCMXCI) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Patrick McLanahan is the primary character most of the books by Dale Brown. ... A heavy bomber is a bomber aircraft of the largest size, and typically longest ranges. ... 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday. ... Patrick McLanahan is the primary character most of the books by Dale Brown. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... An air force is a military organization that primarily operates in air-based war. ... Reserve can mean several things; 1. ... Combat, or fighting, is purposeful conflict between one or more persons, often involving violence and intended to establish dominance over the opposition. ... Aviators are people who fly aircraft either for pleasure or for a job. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Look up terrorist in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Aerial photo (looking NW) of the Washington Monument and the White House in Washington, DC. Washington, D.C., officially the District of Columbia (also known as D.C.; Washington; the Nations Capital; the District; and, historically, the Federal City) is the capital city and administrative district of the United... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Patrick McLanahan is the primary character most of the books by Dale Brown. ... The United States Air Force is the only agency in the world that operates the B-2 Spirit. ... B-2 Spirit stealth bomber A stealth aircraft is an aircraft which has been designed to absorb and deflect radar (via stealth technology); these are not invisible to radar, they are simply harder to detect than conventional technology. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The EB-52 Megafortress is a ficticious Bomber in most of the Dale Brown books. ... Nuclear war, or atomic war, is war in which nuclear weapons are used. ... 1998(MCMXCVIII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year of the Ocean. ... Patrick McLanahan is the primary character most of the books by Dale Brown. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Patrick McLanahan is the primary character most of the books by Dale Brown. ... Maverick can refer to: Samuel Maverick, a Texas cattleman from whom the term maverick originated. ... Tactics is the collective name for methods of winning a small-scale conflict, performing an optimization, etc. ... World map showing Asia (geographically) Asia is the central and eastern part of Eurasia and worlds largest continent. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... The Balkans is the historic and geographic name used to describe southeastern Europe (see the Definitions and boundaries section below). ... In russian, word army means armed forces in general. ... The NATO flag NATO 2002 Summit in Prague The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), sometimes called North Atlantic Alliance, Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation for defence collaboration established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, D.C., on April 4... For the rock band, see Presidents of the United States of America. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... 2002 (MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Patrick McLanahan is the primary character most of the books by Dale Brown. ... The thriller is a genre of fiction in which tough, resourceful, but essentially ordinary heroes are pitted against villains determined to destroy them, their country, or the stability of the free world. ... 2003 (MMIII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2005 (MMV) is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Collaborations

Dale Brown's Dreamland (with Jim DeFelice)

• Dreamland (2001)
• Nerve Center (2002)
• Razor's Edge (2002)
• Piranha (2003)
• Strike Zone (2004)
• Armageddon (2004)
• Satan's Tail (2005)

Dale Browns Dreamland Hidden in the Navada desert is Americas most advanced aerospace-weapons testing facility. ... Dale Browns Dreamland Nerve Center Hidden in the Navada desert is Americas most advanced aerospace-weapons testing facility. ... Dale Browns Dreamland Hidden in the Navada desert is Americas most advanced aerospace-weapons testing facility. ...

External links

• Dale Brown's Page